Gear drive
I was going to get one for my 360,but read all kinds of stuff about the harmonics of the gear drive eventually breaking the cam shaft,losing HP,and them being hard on the valve train.Any of this true?
No, it's not true. Most have a hard enough time with mismatched and poorply set up valvetrain parts, geardrive aside from it.
Granted there are indeed harmonics transferred from the crank no doubt.
But there is no evidence to support any engine damage whatsoever that I've seen. Engine damage can happen from anything...it's easy to blame it on one thing though.
I know of plenty of engines running in excess of 8000 rpm using geardrives and the people running them love them. People with high competency levels. The same people have never broken anything as a result of a geardrive. I won't drag people into it, but I can point you to people in the know you can ask if you like.
The only time I saw something break with a geardrive it was a cummins putting out over 2000 ft lbs and over 1000 hp. I would say it was operating well beyond parameters when the cast cam broke.
I posted that here the last time this was brought up. No one's had anything to say then...and nothing's changed.
Technology has progressed a lot since the 50s and 60s but old habits of repeating the same old info over and over have stifled that progress and continue to do so.
That I can prove. I can prove it any time someone asks about a geardrive and you hear the same old **** from the same OLD people, and the same old **** comes from people who spend all their time here...talking.:poke:
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