A purchasing manager sends an RFQ for 8,000 camshafts with only an engine code and an OEM part number. Within a week, quotes come ba...
Imagine an engine that runs fine at idle but loses power above 4,000 rpm, or one that idles so rough that the dashboard vibrates. The ign... Start With the Engine's Intended Use
Two camshafts can come from the same drawing and still behave very differently in service. One holds its lobe profile for thousands of... What a Camshaft Quality Test Must Prove
A Bajaj Pulsar 220F that loses pull above 8,200 rpm, a Boxer 150 idling with a persistent knock, and a Discover 125 that backfire...
A four-cylinder DOHC passenger car engine opens each of its sixteen valves roughly forty times per second at 6,000 rpm, yet the camshaft that commands those eve...
Three camshaft suppliers delivered samples to a mid-sized engine remanufacturer. Supplier A passed Rockwell hardness on all 12 t...
A mismatched LADA car camshaft throws off valve timing before an engine even completes its first thousand k...
A camshaft is not a scheduled wear item. With regular oil changes and normal driving, a well-made automobile camshaft routinely lasts between 150,000 and 200,000 miles, and many facto...
An engine builder puts two camshafts on the bench for the same 2.0L four-cylinder rebuild. One arrives in an OEM box at a list price of $320. The other, labele...
Machining tolerances on a camshaft lobe are routinely held to a few hundredths of a millimeter, yet a lobe profile that is only ... The camshaft decides when the engine breathes