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Originally Posted by va240dude
Haha, I thought the same thing, but I'm glad he's being honest about what he's seen and that gives me more of an idea of which route to go.
Tomei's cams are a lot easier to get a hold of here, used and new. Not sure if I would even put used cams in unless they were from a friend though. Is there anything else other than marks on the lobes that I would look for? I getting a bad used cam could screw up everything, so I'm really hesitant about getting anything used.
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Nothing wrong with used cams as long as you make sure they are good cams, which really just takes a notepad and a digital (doesn't have to be but god does it make it easier) micrometer. Measure everything, lobes, journals etc and make sure there are not any dramatic variances.
HKS and Tomei cams are made of much harder material than the rocker arms, so usually in a oil starvation situation the rocker arm takes the biggest beating. I actually have worn arms that show what I mean, I'll find and take pictures of them. I also have a used oil starved HKS Step 3 272 cam and can show you what it looks like too.