Timing Gears

[Stu E]

Hi All

I've just been watching Mark Evans in a 4x4 is born and it's got me thinking, over the winter I want to replace the cam in my SD1 3.5 engine for something a little better than the standard one. If I were to use one of Real Steel's mildish cams does the timing gears have to be replaced with vernier ones or are standard ones ok?

Thanks Stu

[katanaman]

Proper vernier sprockets are the ultimate and will get your cam spot on if used properly. You can also get bottom sprockets that can be offset a couple of degrees either way which are obviously cheaper, not as accurate but will do the job.

[kiwicar]

only really worth the vernier set up if you are going for a full tune up, the offset keyway set up is all you need if you are just going for "a bit more power"
Mike

[Stu E]

Thanks for the replies, i'll have a thub through some catalogues and see what I cn find.

Thanks Stu

[ian.stewart]

Buy a decent set, Steel, Not cast or that fibre crap thing, not worth the expense of buying a cheap set, its a bit of a false economy as they have been known to fail on a hard driven engine,

[mgbv8]

I use the Cloyes set on both my engines and they seem fine.