Thread: broken s3 cam. is it salvagable?

just pulled these out of an engine and the part that connects to the dizzy is chippd. it looks like it was running like that on the previous engine just fine. there was no residue showing it had broken like that. looks to me that they were installed being that way already. what do you think?

Should be fine man. My buddy has a set of franklin cams that has more than that missing off one side and it works just fine.

If your worried about it, see if a machine shop or someone could weld some on there to make it better, if ya get what I'm saying.

ya i tried that but the places i went to said it would cause a balancing issue if i add metal to it. which i dont see why it would matter because its missing metal which causes a balancing issue probably.

Its nothing to worry about.

I would not run that shit.

With a chip like that, you can only imagine what it took to make it. The cam could be warped, too.

^^ LOL

The cam rotates clockwise, so that 'chip' never even touches the dizzy drive or anything else. Someone probably dropped it out of the packet before they were even installed to do that kind of damage.

If it was a chip out of the middle of the cam, it might be more worrying, but out of the end of the cam, and not out of the cam gear end. i'd have no issues running it. It bears absolutely no load. The only reason to not run it is if the chip messed with the overall shape of the cutout for the dizzy drive (i.e both sides were chipped and made it a big \_/ shape.

EDIT, wait the first photo, is that of the bottom, and the second photo is of the top? if the chip is really wide on one side (which it kind of looks like in the photo), then that might cause an issue, but in all honesty, if one side is still ok, its not like the dizzy drive can fall sideways and get caught up.

^^ yea, I guess all it's doing is turning the dizzy =/ still looks scary though.

I would have to agree that the cam must have been dropped. the key on the dizzy would have been ripped off well before it could have done that type of damage. I would file down the sharp edges so no small pieces can not come off. If the dizzy key still fits i would run it.