Take a look at these cams...
 

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

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

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

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

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Those journals look pretty beat.

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^Word. I wouldn't run them.

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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.

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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

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

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Polish out the high spots and run them!

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Wow I finally got a chance to see these pics here at home. Those pics sure don't do them any justice!! lol They didn't seem to look quite that bad in person.

But, like I said in my PM, let me know how you end up and we'll work something out. I'm not out to rip anyone off. :D

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Thanks dude. I have no beef with Mike at the moment, it sounds like he is going to work this out with me. Sweet!

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What cams are they? And about how many miles with what oil, and how often it was changed? They look like a used cam.

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They are Crower Stage 2 cams (272's) out of my 1g. Pretty sure Scheides put them in the car waaay back in the day. lol

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the cam lobes look great, but the main journals aren't so good... makes me think the cam caps were improperly torqued or installed wrong or something?

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Hahah! None of my DSMs ever had anything but stock cams in them.

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http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3411/sdc109560.jpg

all better.

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damn they cleaned those up real nice

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What about the grooves you could feel with a finger? Those cant be cleaned up without actually taking material off.

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these are stock cams ;) Polishing takes material off, just a very small amount. I could barely feel the grooves with my fingernail before, and now they're all but gone.