Lets Talk Cams

[Claviger]

I agree, shoudl be a given that if you want to make serious power on a Rocket you need intake and exhaust.

 

[forklift]

Only been on this site a couple months and I've really enjoyed the information that I've gotten from other members. I do have one question though. does Carpenter racing have another website that I have not been able to find that actually list more products that are sold such as cams, pistons, valve train, etc... where I don't have to buy as either a 210, 240, or 270 kit? and while I'm asking a price list? With all the Speed records that Carpenter racing holds there is no doubt that their products are top notch but I'm kind of used to looking at websites like MTC eng. Vance and Hines and R/C Engineering where you could pick out individual parts.

 

[IMFASTTOO]

Only been on this site a couple months and I've really enjoyed the information that I've gotten from other members. I do have one question though. does Carpenter racing have another website that I have not been able to find that actually list more products that are sold such as cams, pistons, valve train, etc... where I don't have to buy as either a 210, 240, or 270 kit? and while I'm asking a price list? With all the Speed records that Carpenter racing holds there is no doubt that their products are top notch but I'm kind of used to looking at websites like MTC eng. Vance and Hines and R/C Engineering where you could pick out individual parts.

So from "just cams" now it's cams + $2500 exhaust + intake mods
Everyone knows Carpenter can make big numbers so this is not anti anyone, but
If only cams can give 200hp 180ftlb the big valve freeflowing head etc in the '210' kit is worth less than 10hp
We have seen '240' modded bikes with pistons/valves/springs/under bucket shims/headwork/tuneboy & Cams with exhausts like
Jardines, Preds Tors make only just over 200hp 170ftlb

So 200hp 180ftlb with "just cams" I just do not see
I must see if I can dig up the flow rate for a stock head, as that is the limiting factor.

THE EXHAUST is $1500 in stainless and $1800 polished and we have made 227hp with a 210 kit

 

[Trirocket3]

Only been on this site a couple months and I've really enjoyed the information that I've gotten from other members. I do have one question though. does Carpenter racing have another website that I have not been able to find that actually list more products that are sold such as cams, pistons, valve train, etc... where I don't have to buy as either a 210, 240, or 270 kit? and while I'm asking a price list? With all the Speed records that Carpenter racing holds there is no doubt that their products are top notch but I'm kind of used to looking at websites like MTC eng. Vance and Hines and R/C Engineering where you could pick out individual parts.

I contacted Bob Carpenter by email & phone, he was very helpful, emailed me prices of the parts I was interested in & shipped them promptly
When he did a head for me he helped me out with a cam carrier, absolutely no complaints.

 

[Trirocket3]

I agree, shoudl be a given that if you want to make serious power on a Rocket you need intake and exhaust.

Yeah,yeah,yeah, 3 into 1 is good, but 3 into 1 into 2 into 6 makes the best power

 

[TriumPhil]

This really isn't Rocket Science guys and there haven't been any half truths posted here other than by wiseguys who do know or should know that any internal mechanical performance upgrades simply require optimal intake and exhaust set-ups to make maximum power.


Otherwise you end up with something like this... (Trojan horse?)

 

[Tripps]

Only been on this site a couple months and I've really enjoyed the information that I've gotten from other members. I do have one question though. does Carpenter racing have another website that I have not been able to find that actually list more products that are sold such as cams, pistons, valve train, etc... where I don't have to buy as either a 210, 240, or 270 kit? and while I'm asking a price list? With all the Speed records that Carpenter racing holds there is no doubt that their products are top notch but I'm kind of used to looking at websites like MTC eng. Vance and Hines and R/C Engineering where you could pick out individual parts.

Carpenter really isn't a parts supply house like those you mentioned but he's a super nice guy and will sell you parts as needed. He's an engine builder, mostly.

 

[Trirocket3]

This really isn't Rocket Science guys and there haven't been any half truths posted here other than by wiseguys who do know or should know that any internal mechanical performance upgrades simply require optimal intake and exhaust set-ups to make maximum power.

But not everyone wants a brute system
Some want their own look, albeit at the cost of a few horses at the top end, we are individuals & can make our own informed decisions.
Or should every R3 be Brute equipped or face ridicule from certain members of the Carpenter Clan
Personally as long as I can still get over 300 & 400 hp I'll stick with my Beast's 6 pipes.
As Triumph say "Go your own way"

 

[Tripps]

Carpenter school bus.

 

[Steel]

Carpenter school bus.

After Katrina, FEMA supplied New Orleans with a couple of those for the next hurricane evacuation.