Re: cam identification

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <scirocco@absomotherfuckinlutely.com>]

Oh. What I said is still true (laugh), but not, apparently, useful. My
G-grind has noticeably bigger lobes than a stock US 1.8L cam. Noticeable
as in I could tell immediately through the small hole in the valve cover.
	-Josiah

'84 GTi
http://bork.hampshire.edu/josiah

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, drew wrote:

> 
> So do a few other VW cams.  Unfortunately you can't tell the G grind by
> the stamped G (which may stand for Germany, or Gasser, or GimmeABreak?).
> The grind comes from the G that's at the end of the VW
> part number.  The non k-lambda CIS 1.6 came with an 'N' cam (which also
> has a G stamped on it AFAIK.) You can identify these cams by their
> profile, as mentioned by an earlier post.  Greg Raven's Water Cooled
> Performance handbook has a table on watercooled cams, perhaps someone with
> a copy handy could post the relevant measurements?
> 
> Drew (84 Wolfsburg with a N grind cam)


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