I purchased some CTR cams off Ebay about 4 weeks ago... and I just received them. Needless to say the guy is an extreeeemely slow shipper. His screenname on Ebay is Fiis300jw if anyone cares to know. Anyway, after looking around on these forums I have read that the CTR cams have two grooves (rings) at the ends of the camshafts and that b16 cams have no grooves and are difficult to decipher amongst. Well, the cams I received in the mail have no grooves/rings at the ends. Please let me know if these are CTR cams.

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Modified by Jephro at 11:19 PM 9/2/2004

 

if there isn't a double ringed groove on the cam, then you got owned

 

pics don't work, you have to copy and paste the link.
and sorry I am too much of a noob to tell the difference on your pics.

 

send that **** back.

 

not ctr cams!

 

You got robbed

 

damn scammers

 

damn dude you got owned! I just got my CTR cams in and they don't even look like the ones you bought! Send them back for SUE the fuc*ers or something! They look like B16 cams to me

 

Ok, the guy just replied to my email... he says they are off a 93 civic type r, is this legit? He swears they dyno the same. help?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jephro &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Ok, the guy just replied to my email... he says they are off a 93 civic type r, is this legit? He swears they dyno the same. help? </TD></TR></TABLE>

There is no such thing!

B16A cams

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jephro &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Ok, the guy just replied to my email... he says they are off a 93 civic type r, is this legit? He swears they dyno the same. help? </TD></TR></TABLE>

type r were non existant in 93

 

CAVEAT EMPTOR

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jephro &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Ok, the guy just replied to my email... he says they are off a 93 civic type r, is this legit? He swears they dyno the same. help? </TD></TR></TABLE>

i'm sorry but rofl...

 

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i'm sorry but rofl...</TD></TR></TABLE>

exactly what i thought! lol......

sorry dude hes trying to beat you bad.......

 

Fiis300jw is his Ebay name... buyers beware. He lives in the New York area... anyone wanna beat some *** for me? If he doesn't try to make this right I'll give everyone his email address so we can sling hate mail his way.


Modified by Jephro at 3:20 AM 9/3/2004

 

bump......... tooo many scammers out there, between this and thefts its getting wayyyy too old.......

 

Ok, his NEW reply is that that he HAD them in a 93 civic, not that they are 93 civic type r cams. Is there any possible way these cams coud be CTR's and not have the double grooves on the end? He swears that he dyno'd them and got 11 hp gains over the b16a cams.

Help the NooBie?!?!


Modified by Jephro at 4:49 PM 9/3/2004

 

Measure the cam lobe height and tell us the numbers.

 

I'll try to do that on my lunch break

 

Ok, here's the lobe lifts...

Vtec lift .232 (Exhaust side) .265 (Intake side)
Primary lift .205
Secondary lift .130

 

Aw Jephro ya' been had, hood winked, run a muck, you didn't land on Ebay, Ebay landed on j00!

 

Does anyone happen to have the measurements for a CTR cam so that I can email this guy back?

 

Umm...they're not CTR cams, end of discussion. No matter how many posts you make about it, they're not going to turn into them and act like them. Sorry, but he scammed you bad.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by cheezthis &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Umm...they're not CTR cams, end of discussion. No matter how many posts you make about it, they're not going to turn into them and act like them. Sorry, but he scammed you bad.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Exactly. Your next email to him should be a demand for a full refund. There isn't any reason why you should be arguing with him over this, since they're clearly not CTR cams. If he advertised them as authentic CTR's, he owes you your money back.


- Chris, who's growing more and more tired of scammers and bad sellers...

 

I've already emailed him several times, demanding a refund since these obviously aren't CTR cams, basically he says he won't send a refund. I've filed a claim with Paypal but since I "technically" received the item, even though it's not in the condition described, they cannot do anything. YAY PAYPAL -Note to self- start selling cars on ebay, make a killing at it by sending buyers sticks of Wrigleys chewing gum instead of the car pictured. I have also filed a claim with Ebay and thru their SquareTrade mediation services, hopefully I can get this resolved.




Modified by Jephro at 4:24 PM 9/5/2004