Newmans Cam Fail!
26-05-2010, 07:28 PM
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Howdoo all. Spoke to newman cams today and look like i was right.. i got one of the very few cams that fail 
on a plus side they are making me a new cam and sending it out no charge. Just shows it wasn't down to poor oil pressure or poor fitting..
on a plus side they are making me a new cam and sending it out no charge. Just shows it wasn't down to poor oil pressure or poor fitting..
26-05-2010, 09:28 PM
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they should of had the material certs and checked the hardness
26-05-2010, 11:51 PM
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Im afraid thats just life.Things always get through time to time and it sucks but we are human!
Its a big kick in the balls when it happens!
Its a big kick in the balls when it happens!
27-05-2010, 07:30 AM
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I really dont know if this is fact but i have some kind of info from Redline that most modern motor oils have less zincdialkylditiophosphate than before because that is bad to catalysators. Zincdialkylditiophosphate is some kind of oil component which adds that wear protection or something. Redline oils do have this additive same amount in the 1980´s.. I dont know is this some kind of marketing shit but just mention.
I have piper 285t2 cam kit and engine is still running smoothly, maybe 2000kilometres driven. I really think this camshaft thing that is service item in rs turbo. No panic.
I have piper 285t2 cam kit and engine is still running smoothly, maybe 2000kilometres driven. I really think this camshaft thing that is service item in rs turbo. No panic.
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27-05-2010, 11:05 AM
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i'd suspect they don't think it's part of a batch, just a one off.
fair play to them replacing it, but they should pay for anyother work that their failed componant may have caused and to pay for fittting of new item.
Back in the day my cousin had a Kent cam fitted by an engine builder in his new build engine, it fell apart and took other bits of the engine with it. Kent not only replaced the cam, but paid for all other work to get the engine back to the condition it should have been in if the cam didn't fail in the first place, jolly good of them in my opinion.
fair play to them replacing it, but they should pay for anyother work that their failed componant may have caused and to pay for fittting of new item.
Back in the day my cousin had a Kent cam fitted by an engine builder in his new build engine, it fell apart and took other bits of the engine with it. Kent not only replaced the cam, but paid for all other work to get the engine back to the condition it should have been in if the cam didn't fail in the first place, jolly good of them in my opinion.
27-05-2010, 11:43 AM
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I really dont know if this is fact but i have some kind of info from Redline that most modern motor oils have less zincdialkylditiophosphate than before because that is bad to catalysators. Zincdialkylditiophosphate is some kind of oil component which adds that wear protection or something. Redline oils do have this additive same amount in the 1980´s.. I dont know is this some kind of marketing shit but just mention.
I have piper 285t2 cam kit and engine is still running smoothly, maybe 2000kilometres driven. I really think this camshaft thing that is service item in rs turbo. No panic.
I have piper 285t2 cam kit and engine is still running smoothly, maybe 2000kilometres driven. I really think this camshaft thing that is service item in rs turbo. No panic.
27-05-2010, 05:40 PM
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Yeah as said it wasnt a faulty batch just one that had slipped through. As for worn material off the cam it started to wear my big end bearings also checked the mains but seem fine so have renewed the oil + filter and renewed bearings with acl ones. To be honest im not interested in trying to get newmans to pay for any of the damages as they have done what i was hoping and replaced the fooked cam. Im just in 2 minds wether to fit it or not or keep my kent cvh31 in there as im only after 250bhp and i made 232 with the kent before and now have bigger injectors on there way.
28-05-2010, 02:31 PM
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I really dont know if this is fact but i have some kind of info from Redline that most modern motor oils have less zincdialkylditiophosphate than before because that is bad to catalysators. Zincdialkylditiophosphate is some kind of oil component which adds that wear protection or something. Redline oils do have this additive same amount in the 1980´s.. I dont know is this some kind of marketing shit but just mention.
One of Stu's magnetic sump plugs is essential on a CVH IMO, with such a high cam failure rate! Anything to help reduce collateral damage!
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