Re: Variable advance Cam

["Ken Keith" <auditude@neta.com>]

OorQue@aol.com wrote:
> 
> >  He paid $400 for it, but I imagine it is NLA. Anyone
> >  have any clues where to get one?
> 
> I've never heard of anybody making a variable cam but George Franco of Franco 
> Industries used to make a camshaft sprocket that did the same thing.  
> Unfortunately, it won't work on 5-cylinder motors as it adjusts both the 
> ignition and valve timing at the same time due to the fact that the 
> distributor is driven off the back of the cam.
> 
> I had one of these for my 4-cylinder 4k way back when and probably still have 
> it around somewhere ... I don't know if Franco Industries is still in 
> business or not but I do recall the price I paid for it was $400.

I posted the website to the list, but it didn't make this digest, I 
think.  Or, that digest, I should say.

Anyhow, Franco also has (had) a conversion that will run the 
ignition off of the crank or flywheel, like a turbo car.  It costs 
another 3 or 4 hundred bucks IIRC.  So, I think your comment is 
restricted only to normally aspirated motors, and there is a solution 
to that as well.  Of course, I could be wrong.  There was just too 
much extra stuff involved in the variable cam gear, so I stopped 
thinking about it long ago.

Ken