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Originally Posted by jetnoise
If accuracy of your valve train is important Billet is a good way to way to provide it.
A billet cam is made from a differant material than a SADI cam. The cam lobes are also tighter in tolerance.
To me, spending good money on a strong bottom end, good flowing heads, intake, carb, ignition etc and then skimp a few bucks on the cam just seems out of place.
I don't think trying to eliminate stacking tolerances is "creative marketing"
It's been around since the industrial revolution*
*edit* since man has been measuring things...lol
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I understand exactly what you're talking about, but I think you misunderstood my point. For some reason, Joe Blow seems to think if it's "billet", it's super duper special and ultra modern. I'd hate to tell them that my uncle Pete was carving tools out of billet YEARS ago. First it was "oooh look, nice wheels, and they're BILLET" then "oooh, look, BILLET knobs". Wow, they were CNCed out of a huge chunk of aluminum, big friggin deal.
Nice to know that the "billet cams" being marketed to the general public are really different. I know you can buy special billet race cams for exotic applications like 1khp+ from some speciality shops but I guess I figured it was just marketing hype on the street cams.
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