new slant build cam choice help please

slantsixdan said
Yours sounds like an ideal candidate for an RV15RDP cam, co-developed by Doug Dutra and Erson Cams a couple of Erson owners ago. The current Erson owners don't have the info and aren't interested. I sent my RV10RDP for master profiling and it's now available from Oregon Cam, but unfortunately the guy who has an RV15RDP on his shelf refuses to "risk" sending it for mastering because what if a meteorite hits the mailman and he drops the camshaft and it bursts out of its box and rolls down the hill and gets run over by a truck and sent flipping end-over-end into the air then falls into the lion cage in the zoo and the lions piss on it and rust it all to hell. Or something! Basically translates to "I have it, you can't have it, FU". Then the other guy with an RV15RDP made noise about having it mastered, but AFAIK never followed through. See here (things start heating up on page 2). Might be worth nudging him.

Avoid Comp's Slant-6 cams and whatever you do, don't give any money to the clowns at Clifford!

Dan,

I am in possession of a new, still in the package, slant six cam, ground by Comp Cams. I want to try this cam because it has ten degrees more duration (220 vs 210@ .050"-lift) than the Bullet-brand cam that I am using in my turbocharged 225.

I am really ignorant when it comes to cam grinders and am curious as to what reasons you have for your aversion to cams ground by Comp Cams. I have no opinion because I have no knowledge, so, whatever you can tell me will be appreciated. I did hear, at one point, that there was a wear problem associated with Comp Cams for slant sixes with the distributor/oil pump drive gear interface. The pump/gear in my engine came from Frank Brent and was ordered as a "heavy-duty" unit. Might that matter, here? I am totally in the dark....

Thanks for any information!