440 Breakdown/Rebuild

ToMang07 said

Probably the Ccomp ones they recommend, that or beehives. And yes, retainers.



I liked the idea of gears over chain so there is no slop, and I am not a fan of the single unit because it needs the billet cover that is pretty ridiculously priced IMO. I've spent a lot of time on here and elsewhere and I haven't really found anything saying they are bad or anyone having issues with them, what am I missing?

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Because they are very inaccurate. That's why the floater has 2 different sized gears. When you back off the throttle the gears float between the cam and crank gears. I don't remember how far off the cam timing moved the one time I checked one but it was far enough I would not use it.

There are used gear drives for sale all the time.
Those floating idler gear drives are cheap to manufacture and easy to install. Other than that, they are worthless, even on a street engine.