Good Prices On Cam Gears?

[PhilKenSebben]

I'm soon to install a PFC in my s1 r33 gtst and want to do the timing belt and cam gears at the same time. I found the belt for a good price but Tomei gears I can only find for $500 for the pair.

There is a group buy going on for no-name gears but I really would prefer name brand if I can get a better price, and I think many of you would agree.

I've done a fair bit of searching but does anyone know of a better than $500 price? It doesn't have to be Tomei but I have read some stories about other name-branders that have 'issues'. Am I being pedantic and the no-namers are fine? I'll settle for just the exhaust side for now if I have to but I have to think that buying them as a pair will net me a better buying price.

Any info would be great, from businesses or individuals.

Thanks

[some_cs_student]

Try asking your tuner, they may be able to get them locally made for a reasonable price and quality

[PhilKenSebben]

Shall do mate, unfortunately I live in Cairns and there ain't squat up here. But you think decent no-namers are fine?

[STATUS]

used a few sets from flyn, raymond has some pretty good deals atm on ebay.

[PhilKenSebben]

I have looked at these flyn sets but passed them off. Should I look more at the materials used than branding? Duralium sounds too flash to pass up!

If I find an unobtainium pair I'll look into it

I've just heard about manufacturing faults in cheap ones and I consider timing to be a little too important to simply hope for the best. Then again I've also read about name brand gears that chip/fracture, and that would have seemed unlikely to me, so I just want some opinions given that I have never used any, and don't want to be giving someone else the 'why I would never use anything but the best' speech to another noob

[R31Nismoid]

Name brand - you get some anodised/painted crap.

Big deal. They sit behind a cam belt cover afterall...

No-name FTW. You can get stock/modded ones for half that price easily and they do exactly the same thing.

Steer clear from ebay stuff, and HKS Gen1 cam gears, other than that a gear is a gear.

[PhilKenSebben]

Sweet thanks for the info nismoid. I'm not interested in the colour or a name written on it, I just tend to think the larger names sell better gear. Sometimes this is true, sometimes not. I just try to apply the old adage 'you get what you pay for', and it's difficult to know when to buy the cheaper stuff, and I like to do my research. Let other people do it first, and learn from that.

Dirtgarage has given me a good price on OS Giken gears so we'll see.

[R31Nismoid]

The best gear i've had was all custom made...

Most of the time its true, for key parts like turbos/manifolds/plenums/exhausts & dumps and so on.

Cam gears however are much of a muchness.

[paulr33]

there are known baddies in my signature link, worth a read if you are trying to buy cheap ebay ones