Comp Cams Factory Tour & Behind The Scenes: How Does a Performance Camshaft Get Made? 

@Stapleton42; Mitchell & Logan this factory tour within Comp Cams is excellent, informative, very good inside view within a modern production facility, along with some of the development stages within their production development improvements. Comp Cams is one of the many smaller, individual companies, manufactures, that have become within the one conglomerate - with Edelbrock, Holley, etc. This has advantages and disadvantages. A. There are other CAM manufactures with their level of expertise, lineage, notoriety, specialty, specialization among racing and other engines. -1. among them are Isky Cams in CA -2. others B. This office layout, setup, design is typical among many companies implemented during the later 1980's and 1990's with cubicles -1. such an environment has advantages and disadvantages - as open house designs from the 1960's - less interior wall, more open sense, 'feel' - less privacy -2. during my design engineering employment [1978-1993 + interviews within many companies afterwards into this Millennium] -a. cubicles offer an open format, sense - helpful with management observation, while providing some partial separation - partial privacy -b. privacy is important for necessary individual work, one-to-one, interpersonal, small group communication, interaction, discussions, problem solving, handling issues, problems, etc. - similarly within a family, small business, private offices, etc. -c. large open, bull pen type employment set up - has far more pressure, every little situation is noticed by everyone, difficulties, problems, issues become wide spread, thus often escalating more into arguments, heated discussions, lacks privacy -> not conducive for, with, within good working relationships - hinders them. ->first hand experience within such a large, open, semi divided environment within McDonnell-Douglas facility, LB, CA [Sept 1988- Jan 90] - worst ever for me - contracted by my main employer assisting testing of, with ARINC, electronics for MD-11 - hired post major layoffs March-April 1988 - searched, found work elsewhere within main company by Jan 1990 - to a 'more normal' office environment with individual and shared offices with full walls. AllThe Best Sincerely

why are comp cam on such back order did they tell you

Love to know why on earth are the lobes on the cam so wide, if they are only touching the base of the lifter, then make it only as wide as much as the lifter needs to touch it, then you have less rotating mass and therefore less to try to balance it out, the base of the lifter used is only going to touch the top part of the camshaft and not the complete top surface of it, thus better to make the cam lobes just as wide as completely required, thus using less material and saving more money as well, plus more efficient cam and better frequency dynamics with in the engine rotating masses? If you look at used camshafts, you can clearly see that the liftor only touched about the middle surface of the lobe, thus make a cam with only about 1/2 of the thickness but making sure it perfectly made to spec for the engine and also crack tested sonicaly tested to make sure its strong as its needed for a particular purpose drag, st, or everyday engine with extra performance requirements etc ?

They are about 45 minutes away from where I live. Southaven is a pretty busy town.

OMG did not know they had a wavelength measuring machine for the camshafts they make that is insane accuracy, down to the millionth or tenth or 100's or 1,000 and's of a millionth of a millimetre? 👍👍👌👌🦘🦘✌✌

What more proof does anyone need than this comment here lol. Maybe next time we are in town we can do the Clay Millican hometown history tour

If it's good enough for Clay Millican, then they're damn sure good enough for me!!!!

BG is an awesome Dude😁

Absolutely does!! Thanks Brian

Thanks Ben!

Thanks Craig we are glad you’re here

What caused some factory cam shafts to go soft and flat what did Racer Brown do use different stock

Thanks mark!

Awesome!

thank you mike that is awesome to hear!

Crazy right!

That’s awesome

Thanks man! That’s awesome

I have a 76 Kauai jet boat with naturally aspirated stroked 460 and hyd roller comp cam among other enhancements. Below water exhaust so she's a little quieter idling around the ramp but when those exhaust tips come up out of the water people start looking. May not be the fastest boat but she will throw you back in the seat. Putting out 640ft lbs, had to reinforce the alternator bracket, only way I could keep her from throwing belts.

Delta cams has quite a few vids showing their processes. They are doing regrinds and not new cams but they go more in depth on the grinding process, straightening process, welding and repair, etc.

@@theinsaneshecklador6598 Thanks.

Friend of mine lived just a few houses down from Joe Lunati. I remember their first little shop over off Raines Road.

We are so glad we could help!

Thanks man!! That’s our goal. To inspire improvement one person at a time

Thanks man!!

Thanks man!! We will!

@@Stapleton42 issues to consider with engine oil, and machine lubrication is which individuals to interview. A. The API, and all of the major petroleum manufactures opposed the need for using synthetic lubricants for many decades B. Synthetic lubricants began use during WWI - especially within German military, then USA and others. C. Synthetic lubricant became the standard within military equipment, machines, vehicles during 1950's D. Synthetic lubricants became standard necessary for use within aircraft especially- vital with jet, turbine engines and other aircraft. E. Standard Oil Indiana developed synthetic lubrication oils during 1950's - project an production abandoned -> why ? F. Owners of Standard Oil & all major Petroleum Oil Manufactures -1.-> One Int'l Conglomerate = Glob/Elite Rockefeller StndOil,BP,Exxn,Chvrn,Uncl,Shll,Txco,Snco,Pnzl,Cstrl,Vlvl,Mbletc. -2. first commercial synthetic oil production Amsoil->Amzoil 1970 -first commercial synthetic with certification, approval by SAE, API -3. API refused benefits of, need for synthetics -> major oil company influences, direction, dictation, control -4. Mobil1 - major petroleum oil manufacture - introduced 1974 - inferior compared with Amsoil - proven lubrication test results through all decades -5. 1990's - other major petroleum oil manufactures began production of, with synthetic oil - still produce both and mixtures -> Why ? -6. all major petroleum oil manufactured synthetics present benefits with synthetics compared to petroleum oil lubricants, never compared with other synthetic lubricant manufactures. G. SAE broader base for standards, better, less biased organization than API H. Lake Speed, Jr., an expert within lubrication - works with Joe Gibbs Racing and their private synthetic oil production. I. Mitchell Stapleton - You explanation about the advantages with synthetic oils is falsely based, marketing from the Pnzl own by MjrOlCo-StndOil-Glob/Elite-Rockefeller -> ask Lake Speed about the correct chemical, mechanical, lubrication details with synthetic oils -> still the first and best - proven by tests is Amsoil! J. Synthetic oils have various sources from which they are synthesized. - Methane is a usable source ->thus equally Methanol ->produced from produce -1. Pnzl development of synthetics from Methane - since they have gain ownership of Methane, natural gas sources -not since the result it better. All The Best Sincerely

@@newtonfirefly3584 All of Amsoil's base stock comes from MOBIL.

He also had a 57 Bel air fuelie that was to die for.

Dated women in Stockbridge, worked in McDonough, lived in Griffin, forgot about Reed cams !

@@REVNUMANEWBERN nice! Now you can't go anywhere up here because of the traffic 🤣

That’s awesome! Comp was actually about to buy Reed until John passed away.

@@Stapleton42 that's a cool fact, I never knew that. My dad used to run John's cams back in the late 60's/ early 70's we've still got two Reed's laying in our shop. Waiting for us to get off our butts and build something

Thanks man!!

Absolutely will work with them in the future!! We have some awesome stuff planned

Absolutely is!

Extremely

Thanks Barry!

LOL

We were here for like a day and a half total we had no time 😂 I wanted to

Thanks bill!

Paraffinic oil times yes.

Back in 80's we had a power surge crash our Okuma.We had to get a tech from Japan to fix it. We had a phone in break room that he was talking to factory on that phone for over 48 hours.We figured phone call cost more than tech..

@@papadew1964 you’re probably right lol We still have to get with Japan sometimes but it’s pretty rare, and mostly by e-mail.

That’s awesome lol. Thank you for being here with us for it!!

Lake Jr is the man

Thanks man that’s our goal!!

Thank you Chris that means a lot!

Yes! We have a whole video on that topic exactly coming soon

@@Stapleton42 cool beans! You guys should do a Holley carburetor tour someday. It would be cool. To see how there made

Thanks man!

Thanks man!!

@@Stapleton42 Heard you in the end of the video, just so you know I watched it to the end! ;-) ;-) ;-)

Agreed. They’re keeping it all in the USA. Edelbrock too. They still cast everything in CA!

We have a video with Billy where he explains all the technical bits on cam lobe ramps etc! You’re gonna love that one.

It was a lot to take in!! We got up super early and flew to Memphis & started filming as soon as we got there 😅

Thanks Tim!!

Thanks drew!

Thanks art!

Thanks man! We are glad you’re here 💪🏻

It would be awesome. We have talked about it!

@@Stapleton42 That's awesome! I hope you can make it happen.

Agreed!