I had a extremely bad experience with Cam Motions and will be sending their cam back asking for a full refund from them. I was wondering who else you guys might recomend, I dont like Crane so they are out of the question, I would consider Comp but have heard some bad things about them.

FWIW this is for a LT1 based motor.

Thanks
Patirck

 

They screwed up the cam royally, and horrible customer service. I can understand a screw up here and there from a mass production cam place but not a business the does only custom cams.

Patrick

 

What did they screw up. 99% of the time it is not the cam manufacturers fault.

I bought a comp XE274 camshaft and lifter kit, installed it and it went flat in a matter of hours. Everyone told me it was the cam manufacturers fault. After I installed the second cam, i turned the motor over with the intake manifold off and the lifters were not spinning in my lifter bore on my brand new block. Go figure. I have heard nothing but good things about cammotion, so I am curious what is up.

 

I'll post what happened, but the cam was never in the car, barely made it out of the packaging, here's the story:

They ground me a cam that was +/- 5 degrees from the specs we figured for it, the valve lift was -9.xxx", the whole cam doctor sheet was fubared. The only thing that was right on the cam sheet was the LS of 114. The base circle wasn’t even the right size.

The cam snout was neither for a pre 95 opti or post 95 opti, and the dowel pin wasn’t the right size.

I ordered lash caps with the cam, two weeks after I ordered the cam I still had nothing, and I had called to make sure the cam had been ground and was on the way, well it had been ground, but they were waiting on the lash caps, which they said where in stock when I ordered them (it was a convenience to order them from Cam Motions, but I could get them local anywhere.) I needed the cam ASAP, so I told them to scratch the lash caps and get it to me. They sent it out and I received it, looked at the cam sheet, it was WAY off, and the snout was messed up. So I called them and told them, and the lady said she would send out a call tag for it the next day, it never showed up, I called back told her this, she told me to send it back on my own coin and she would send me a check. I sent it the next day emailed her the amount, 2 weeks later still no check.

I was told that they re doctored the cam and it was the specs that we had initially talked about (of course), and that they had put the 95 conversion on it. I have voiced my displeasure about this several times with them, just to have them tell me that I will get my cam, and that they did send the call tag. So the last email I sent to them was to keep the cam and refund me the whole amount, and I will move on to another company that hopefully will be better.

I can understand a cam going out that isn’t correct from a company that mass grinds cams, but not a company that makes a living off custom ground cams.

So to answer your question OldSStroker, I have the cam spec'ed out, its just a quality issue, I am basing my conclusions about Crane from personal experience, since they are less then a mile away from my house, granted Comp is merely hear-say, and maybe I should try them since I was highly recommended to Cam Motions and that didn’t workout, maybe I have reverse luck or something

At this time I have found a company (Elgin Cams) that seems to want my business, are cheaper, and I have also been recommended to them, so I will see what we can come up with from them.

It's just I am very picky when it comes to my car stuff, and I value customer service very highly. I hope I made some sense in this post; I chalk it up to a bad experience, so, live and learn.

Patrick