HKS cam gear arrives! yay!

[GTS-t VSPEC]

I believe it helps to reduce the heat which can affect the CAS, but most people do it for the looks.

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[25GTT]

Originally posted by GTS-t VSPEC

You can get perspex ones made for car shows etc, they look really cool, show-off the cam gears without allowing foreign objects in.

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Hmmmm...

who sells em and how much? would look pretty spanky!

[rev210]

I put the cover back on. If you leave it off then you will need to put washers inbetween the CAS and the brakcet it bolts to. Otherwise the CAS will be pushed into the bolts holding the cam wheel on.

The cover is easy to put on and take off. For the sake of greater wear on the belt and the horrible possibillity of droping bolts into the bottom half of the cover (I'm sure a good 3hrs work getting the bastard off and back on) I am leaving the cover 'on'.

If you are worried about heat affecting the CAS then it would be more prudent to ceramic coat the cover. Having said that I doubt the CAS is affected at all by the relatively little heat it cops.

[rev210]

Dan I wouldn't go buying the plastic cover if I were you. At least if you only have the exhaust cam wheel you can hardly see it from the CAS bracket.

[GTS-t VSPEC]

When I took mine off I forgot about the washers you needed to add, the timing was fully retarded, wondered why it didn't go aswell.

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[rev210]

When I tried to run the engine with the cover off to test. I forgot that the extra space the cover adds and the cam gear bolts machined a nice surface on the back of the CAS.

Metal filings all over the place, no harm tho.

[GTS-t VSPEC]

Even though we should know better it is still easy to stuff up.

To err is to be human:p

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