Take a look at these cams...

[s1ngletracker]

Goodhart, I'm not trying to diss the product you sold me. I just don't know enough to know if I should be concerned about this.

Look at the main journals on the cam, they are a bit scored, enough so that I can just barely feel it with my fingernail.

Are these okay to run? I suspect its not a big deal but I dont want to have to rip these out again, or damage my rebuilt head.

*note: the little stringy things are just threads from the rag I was holding it with, not metal shavings or anything.

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/2568/sdc109510.jpg
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8199/sdc109480.jpg

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5158/sdc10949m.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/8840/sdc109500.jpg

[Kracka]

If you can feel it with your fingernail I wouldn't run them.

[311evo]

do you have anything or a machine shop that could check if they're close to spec? (and maybe polish them)

[s1ngletracker]

I will mic them and probably also have a machine shop check them

[Super Bleeder!!]

Those journals look pretty beat.

[turbotalon1g]

^Word. I wouldn't run them.

[s1ngletracker]

Can machine shops even do much about it? if you take much material off, they're just unusable, aren't they? Since there aren't any bearings for the cam journals, the cam just directly contacts the head.

[Pushit2.0]

I would take them to a machine shop, have them polish them up and see if they are still with in spec. It would be just like polishing a crank.

~John

[s1ngletracker]

Yeah, gonna take them to Headwerks tomorrow and see what they say.

[95talonracer]

Polish out the high spots and run them!