[s-cars] Cam's for Cheap! NAC- JOHN DELONG

Phil Mische pmische at comcast.net
Tue May 1 10:16:44 EDT 2007


John DeLong is a legend.  I never heard a bad word spoken about him - 
nothing but wonder for his ability and humility.

PJM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Ferrari" <tony at tferrari.org>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 4:26 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Cam's for Cheap! NAC- JOHN DELONG


> Hello,
>
> My name is Tony Ferrari and I raced an MGA Twin Cam in the SF region of
> the SCCA in the mid 60's. John De Long ground a set of camshafts for me.
> He never sold another copy of them even thought he did grind some for
> another MGA Twin Cam a few years later. I told him that was great - he
> could make some money of them. He said: No your cams would not do for a
> street car.
>
> The Twin Cam was a bear to time the cams. Once after rebuilding the
> engine I had a race at Laguna Seca. I was amazed at the low end torque
> but soon found that the top end flattened out. John was there with me
> and after the race when I told him I had lost top end he told me that
> listening to the sound of my car he figured that the intake cam was
> timed a few degrees (three or four I recall him saying) too advanced. I
> took the engine apart and sure enough the intake was 4 degrees too
> advanced. The man was a genius.
>
> If he liked you it was amazing what he would do for you. I first met him
> at Babbitt bearing and he liked the Twin Cam engine because it reminded
> him of a midget Offy engine. After I quit racing I prepared a Lotus
> Seven for a friend. I once spent all day setting up the head of the
> engine from about ten in the morning until 1 am the following morning
> with only a 2 hour break for dinner. As i recall he charged me $78.00 -
> AMAZING!!!!
>
> Hope you enjoy this little story.
>
> Tony Ferrari
>
> www.tferrari.org
>
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