Re: coupla MC motor questinons..

[OorQue@aol.com]

>   You both seem to be forgeting that for an Audi owner with a hydraulic 
> lifter head, cam blanks are infact very plentiful and practically 
free...from 
> the solid lifter head motors.  I cant understand why you keep diverting 
back 
> to a much more difficult and poor solution when such an easy one is 
evident...

This raises another point that's interested me for some time.  Where I live, 
there's no salvage yard that gives away any parts for "practically free" and 
they also won't sell you pieces of a whole ... for instance, you want to buy 
a rear a/r bar off a FWD Audi 5000 tubo?  Fat chance ... it's considered part 
of the axle assembly and they want $200+ for it, take it or leave it.  You 
need to replace a single rod or piston and don't want to buy a complete short 
block?  Well, good luck.

As for using a solid-lifter cam as a blank for a hydraulic-lifter head, what 
do you really gain?  Adding lash caps isn't the end of the world -- I ran 
them for years on various BMWs without any problem -- and if you're changing 
cams, you have easy access to underneath the cam followers. Of course, if you 
can get one for free, that's great, but if you have to buy a complete 
solid-lifter head for $75-100 -- and around here, that's what they get for 
them these days -- then swipe it out of that, maybe it's not the best 
solution after all.

Still, let me point out, once again, I was simply addressing Phil's question 
about how it's done and not why you should do it that way.  Personally, 
obsessive-compulsive person that I am, I'd pay the bucks for a new blank 
instead of having the old cam re-ground...

JG

JG