well anyway i try and start my car last night and it doesnt i try and try, it was late i didnt want to mess with it so today i took off the valve cover and to my suprise there is my skunk 2 intake cam in 2 pieces. i was so pissed so i put the old si cam back in and i called skunk 2 but the guy i need to talk too was in a meeting but the guy i did talk to said it is probably an installation defect. the were put in correctly and every thing it just snapped clean right by the 3rd cylinder vtec lobe. can any body help or have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. i'll probably never buy any thing from them again. what can i do about buying one cam? would a ctr be close enough?

 

I'm sorry to hear about you cam. At least it didn't cost you any downtime.

I remember the first generation of skunk cams had problems with breaking, but you could also have over tensioned your timing belt though. I hope you can get a replacement from skunk though, stuff like this just sucks. If it breaks while your car isn't running... that's just not a good testament to the quality of their work. A cam just shouldn't break. (At least the cam didn't break while your car was running). As for your questions about the ctr cam, I don't know where it stands relative the the skunk cam. But what I do know is that the latest itr cams are just as aggressive as the ctr.

 

That Sucks

 

hrm, if it DID crack while not running.... If it cracked while running, I'm imagining it would cause all sorts of shit.

Maybe it was a thermal expansion, contraction problem?

Cams are ****ing thick, I can't imagine one breaking.

OHHHH, I bet it was a regrind, also....

-PHiZ

 

Cams break all the time. Skunk2, Jun, Toda, Crower. Shit happens.

 

 

it looks as if someone took it and broke it over there knee. i have to call skunk2 back on tuesday

 

Yeah, shit happens...skunk2 guys should take care of you...were you hot rodding the night before or somethin? Sounds like a defective part to me...ups guys could throw that shit all around the truck and kick it to your door and it should still be in one piece.

 

the cam blank is always the culprit, its caused by over heating the camshaft when producing the blank. when you overheat a piece of metal it reaches a point called "critical mass" which changes the structural integrity of the metal making it more brittle and weak. all cam companies have this problem. they better replace it no charge and express shipping, if they dont thats BS.

 

i hope they replace it i wasnt hot rodding at all cause they were just put in