https://www.enginela...k-chevy-engine/
The Five-Cam Small-Block Chevy Engine
Started by
Bob Riebe
, Dec 06 2024 21:22
7 replies to this topic
Advertisement
#2
Wuzak
-
- 8,875 posts
- Joined: September 00
Member
Posted 06 December 2024 - 23:20
So the normal camshaft is only used to drive the accessories?
#3
404KF2
-
- 21,315 posts
- Joined: October 99
Member
Posted 07 December 2024 - 02:15
Maybe the fifth one is just a shaft, with no cams.
#4
Catalina Park
-
- 6,844 posts
- Joined: July 01
Member
Posted 07 December 2024 - 03:31
Sort of like saying the Twin Cam Lotus engine is really a triple cam.
#5
Bob Riebe
-
- 3,100 posts
- Joined: January 05
Member
Posted 07 December 2024 - 04:20
The engine has been around for 50 years and this is the first time Anyone called it a 5 cam engine.
#6
Bloggsworth
-
- 9,490 posts
- Joined: April 07
Member
Posted 07 December 2024 - 16:11
Sort of like saying the Twin Cam Lotus engine is really a triple cam.
Well, the third cam did drive the fuel pump and distributor, it wasn't totally redundant... Oops! On second thoughts, that was the jackshaft - God, I'm getting old, fancy forgetting that.
Edited by Bloggsworth, 07 December 2024 - 18:31.
#8
Greg Locock
-
- 6,454 posts
- Joined: March 03
Member
Posted Yesterday, 21:56
Mike Kimberley's Esprit had a powersteering pump driven off the camshaft (wuss). By the logic of this 5 camshaft engine that means he had a single camshaft engine. Boring war story I was in the workshop one Saturday morning just after we'd had photo ids issued. Saw this bloke wandering around looking at things, no ID. So I challenged him. It was MK, luckily he saw the funny side. Incidentally he was the only CEO I've ever seen eating the works canteen.
Edited by Greg Locock, Yesterday, 21:59.
