Variable Cam Stuff

[mrvette]

The simplest thing I ever saw for this cam timing thing was a Varicam  mfgd. in
the 60's    it was patented, but the company failed I heard...
it was a large pair of springs on an adjustable tension arrangement and an
adjustable travel arrangement....just screw down the springs to delay retard 
and set the amount of advance retard where you wanted it....all located on the
cam gear....simple as hell...don't know why company failed....they worked well
in cars that had them.....in dragracing...GENE

Raymond C Drouillard wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:42:40 -0700 Sandy <sganz at wgn.net> writes:
> >Saw the idea in the 60's hot rod mags where some gizmo was attached to
> the
> >timing gear of the cam and it did some magical adjustmet by letting the
> >assembly slip and slide to alter the cam timing. Never saw one in action
> or
> >knew if they really worked, the idea was good.
> >
> >Sandy
> 
> I was thinking of using something similar to the centrepital advance
> flyweights that are used on a mechanical distributer.  The biggest fly in
> the ointment would be the large load that is on a camshaft.
> 
> Ray Drouillard
> 
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