I have read some really negative posts about their quality??????. Is there any water behind the posts??/ I was thinking of buying a cam from them. My Brother has had good luck with thier cranks in his Chevy's
I'm going to fire up number three this summer (three different engines). I have had nothing but good luck with them!
X's 2 Comp Cams has it's share of flat lobe complaints on the web on many of the forums,almost nothing bad said about Isky,Howard or Crower cams longtime American companies that deserve our support.It is critical that the break-in and quality of oil used is #1 unless you go roller.
as stated above oil is very important had lobes go flat in a very short time because of oil even changed cam companies because I thought that it was their fault since changed brand of oil and all is ok
You HAVE to use good oil and a good filter when breaking in a new flat tappet cam, not so much on a roller since they don't rotate. Our shop uses and recommends Brad Penn oil and Wix racing filters. The regular parts store brand of oil just aint gonna cut it now days.
I have never had a lobe go flat,maybe i'm just lucky.I think it has more to do with break in and parts quality than oil. Just my 2 cents.
Yes it is. originally from Memphis, currently in MS. Lunati was bought bought by Holley back when Jeff King went on the buying spree that ended up putting them in bankruptcy, twice. They managed to screw up Lunati and sold it back off. The new owners seem to be doing all the right things.
Lunait is good stuff, never had an issue or complaint with them . THe new owners are supposed to be racers and want it to be a more racer friendly business again . The VooDoo series were designed by Harold Burkshire ( Uldradyne) so they make power
I think Comp says that the warranty on their cams is void unless you use a bottle of break in concentrate. Good advice on any flat tappet cam. I used Brad Penn break in oil with my last flat tappet motor, no problems!
As long as you use the right oil and break it in correctly you should have no problems. I suggest using Brad Penn oil to start it with, they have all the necessary ingredients still remaining that you need for proper break in
The posts I read were older. The owner ship issue explains the probs, My Heads comin off-- Cant i just run conventional with a zinc addative and how much???
I had the machine shop that did the heads grind all the valves so the stems were all up an equal amount. We then made the spings all the correct height with shims, then stored the new springs. The motor was started with the old springs and Rotella 15W40 plus cam break in lube. After a few hundred miles, the oil, filter, and valve springs were changed. This is for whop-de-do springs. Stockers shouldnt require the hasles.
On another Forum a guy was saying a while back he got a Lunati Voodoo cam for a BBChr, & it was way bigger than the specs said. Valve/piston contact would have happened if started.
Worked for them about 30 years ago, and they ran a tight ship then, as far as now with the change in ownership?
The new owners are the owners of Comp Cams. I don't know if Scooter Brothers is "a racer", but he's done fine with Comp Cams. Holley sold Lunati to concentrate on "big dollar" OEM contracts that turned out to be big losers. Holley went bankrupt AGAIN, and changed management (and/or owners) twice since Lunati was sold. Without going into the details of sourcing, as far as cranks, rods, pistons, etc, suffice it to say that the stuff branded LUNATI today is nothing like what was branded LUNATI 10 years ago. Cams have been a bit more stable, with occasional core issues, but still ground in-house as far as I know. Break-in is critical for any flat tappet cam. The original poster never mentioned what type of cam he was going to use, or maybe I missed it. I'm sure the "proper cam break-in" technique is well covered in the archives here.
A mechanical flat tappet 112 deg lobe seperation. Thanks i got a little history of Lunati, Holley, and comp cams in this thread. I also checked out Isky's site. Wow they have come a long way in the last 10 yrs!!! impressive.
Imho, I would call UDHarold here... (662) 562-4933 and flat out ask him to recommend a cam for your application. You really need to do your home work on just who UDHarold is here so that you will know. He was schooled by none other than Mr. Harvey Crane and then went on to create CC's great old 268HE cam family as well as many others, plus his own now defunct Ultradyne Cam Company that had a heck of a following a while back over on team chevelle. I think Bullet ended up owning the masters he created that I figure are now old-school per Harold. And fwiw, I bugged Harold for quite a long time to design a BB solid lifter cam for me that would run with the great old CC 288AR solid STREET ROLLER cam only because I was afraid to run a solid roller cam in a so-called DD 496 BB due to eating needle bearings AND he did!! It's in my bedroom closet now and the spec's of it are 278/249/161, 110/106, .618"/.618" lift and it need's .018" hot lash! And if you do call Harold, please say hello from ol' pdq67 for me! pdq67
I have a radical lunati roller in a 1969 350 chevy that was installed new in 1969. It will rev until you break something. The motor was in a 1964 chevelle asphalt circle car and really ran well. Speaking of Lunati I was there the day that the Lunati funny car crashed at Laplace Raceway and was torn all to hell. It was a gold metal flake body of some odd design. I think I'm' old!
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