Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

I bought skunk2 stage 2 cams yesterday, and i put them in, ran them for about 5 minutes and while the car was idldling the cam just ------- broke. no binding, no wierd wear or anything

http://is.rely.net/1-1406-17175-l-EE...bRFntjPF4g.jpg

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

A kid at my school had the exact same thing happen. No joke. The shop he took it to covered everything.

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Those cams for some reason have alot of problems. Seen a few sets drop valves also. how bad is the motor damaged?

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

dropping valves has nothing to do with shitty cams, it only has to do with shitty retainers/valvesprings.

It bent all intake valves on 3 and 4, shitty thing is, it's a type r head so it had different valves :-( time for omni's

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

It's karma. Get used to it. :D

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you do realize that onmi's are practically the same thing, right? portflow it up y0

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So true

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Did you run the cams in according to the manufacturer's specs?

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i wanna see what skunk2 will do about this

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

yes, they broke when i was running them in. omni's are basically the same thing as skunk 2's, and thats not what caused the break, i have used stock itr valvesprings on many s2s2 setups. portflows are not anything special.. atleast their retainers aren't... They just have their own inner springs with STOCK ITR outer's.

Karma. hardly

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

Exactly. Karma has something worse in store for you

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I have omni retainers already, i'm about to buy the valves in a bit and the springs.

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

haha... matt you silly white monkey :D But I got a bag of popcorn waiting :P

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

i bet u they broke cause there obx cams....u cheap ass

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

ssautochrome makes cams now? :P

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or may be it is the LMA that`s blinding ???

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they are not obx cams bill, i dont buy cheap stuff :-) :-P bill you rocked the ssauto mani I have not! ;D

The lma's are type r (type r head) so I honestly dont htink that is the problem, I did rotate the motor over a few times before firing it, And the motor ran for about five minutes. Normaly if the lma's are binding they will break on initial startup.

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

thats crazy it didnt ---- up your head and cam caps. Looks like you should have kept the ITR cams ;) Have any pics of the head/cam cap where the cam broke?

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

no pics, i just got done (3 pm) putting my new valve springs/retainers and valves in.

Omni power flat faced valves and omni power springs/retainers

only took 4 hours and i got a 3 angle valve job :-)

put it back together with a spoon 2 liter head gasket. compression should be up to about 11.5 now.

Re: Who here likes skunk2? Picture of broken cam!
 

What springs and retainers were you running? I have skunk stage 2's and portflow springs and retainers and have had 0 problems. They did have problems a long time ago with their first cores, but i really havent seen any problems since. Most breakage has been from poor installation. Maybe you just got a bad core. Good luck with the rest of your build.