[Shotimes] Ever seen a snapped Camshaft...

[Midwest SHO Specialists]

The rest of the head is fine.

I spoke to the owner this afternoon and he is confident that he torqued them
down appropriately, in the correct 2 step procedure.

Mike Kopstain
Midwest SHO Specialists
827 North Chestnut Avenue
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
www.MidwestSHO.com
Sales@midwestsho.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Fisher" <ianf@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: "'Midwest SHO Specialists'" <SHOtimes@midwestsho.com>;
<shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Ever seen a snapped Camshaft...


> It sounds to me as if the cam journal caps were not torqued in the
> correct order or not torqued correctly at all. That is a very strange
> failure; that cam would have suffered a lot of stress to do that. How is
> the rest of the head ?
>
> Ian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Midwest SHO
> Specialists
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 12:52 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] Ever seen a snapped Camshaft...
>
>
> On a V6?
>
> The link below is a customer's car that we have that has had a timing
> problem since we received it and never really ran.  Check out the
> pictures.
>
> http://www.shoforum.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=0063
> 85
>
> Mike Kopstain
> Midwest SHO Specialists
> 827 North Chestnut Avenue
> Arlington Heights, IL 60004
> www.MidwestSHO.com
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