What Brand Cams Gears To Buy?

[eightsixboy]

Thinking of getting some cam gears but don't know which brand to go for. You can get Tomei's for around $400 or you can get ebay specials from as low as $130 a pair.

My experience with cheaper brands gears on my old 4age where not the greatest, they were Fidanza and the color faded after a few months.

Is there any cheaper brands that are good? Or should I just cough up the dough and buy the real deal?

[R31Nismoid]

cheaper gears are fine - generally though just change the bolts out for better quality ones.

cam gear cover sits over them, so who cares what they look like?

You can even have stock gears modified for around the price of ebay ones

[SiR_RB]

Greddy cam gears here...nothing but jap touches my rb26, sometimesthe cheaper ones have the advance and retard markings the wrong way around

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

personally a cam gear i something that i would never cheap out on... they can slip and you want to be sure that the correct materials have been used in manufacture.... which is something china can never offer.

fwiw i run greddy

[Guilt-Toy]

cheaper gears are fine - generally though just change the bolts out for better quality ones.

cam gear cover sits over them, so who cares what they look like?

You can even have stock gears modified for around the price of ebay ones

[Nee-san]

GCG have a special on at the moment

Gates racing cam gears and gates racing timing belt for $260 for rb26, I bought it Lol.

[R31Nismoid]

personally a cam gear i something that i would never cheap out on... they can slip and you want to be sure that the correct materials have been used in manufacture.... which is something china can never offer.

fwiw i run greddy

Hence i said change the bolts - they are the only downside and can be fixed up for $15 or less, $200+ cheaper than the jap items

Racepace mod stock gears into adjustables, just use good bolts and tahts that!

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

yeh.... i'd be happy to use a race pace modded stock gear, but not a china one.... who knows what density the metal is, if it gives even a tiny bit, then BAM

unless it's for looks... then it's HKS all the way

[eightsixboy]

Ok I'll look into the GCG ones.

Would 3 bolts be enough to hold them? A mate at work said to not buy ones with 3 holes like the HKS (GCG are the same I think) ones as they tend to slip. But if you lock tight them they shouldn't come loose.

Edited October 2, 2010 by eightsixboy

[yogibear]

do not buy isc ones , i had a set on my rb20 nothing but problems with them slipping , and yes i did change the bolts

[Wheezy]

GReddy ones here, happy as larry with them.

Had a set of EBay ones but decided to sell them on. I was not convinced about their quality (or lack of)

I'm just a brand whore I guess

[BrynDETT]

HKS ones here... payed 429 for the pair... look great... and look sweet with the HKS timing belt

[N1GTR]

Tomei here.

Would go the Racepace ones next time though.

[Guest]

Got me a set of Racepace adjustable ones. Heaps cheaper than the Jap brands and work well. Can't go wrong!

[STATUS]

Greddy cam gears here...nothing but jap touches my rb26, sometimesthe cheaper ones have the advance and retard markings the wrong way around

yeah i was fan but they have discontinued some of the range like sr's are no more...

[tridentt150v]

swapping the bolts out is a fix, but that doesn't help if the threads are sloppy or the material is soft around the thread area, but you can get around it with loctite.

But a smashed motor is way more costly than the $200-300 your trying to save, so a quality item is cheap insurance in some ways.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

swapping the bolts out is a fix, but that doesn't help if the threads are sloppy or the material is soft around the thread area, but you can get around it with loctite.

But a smashed motor is way more costly than the $200-300 your trying to save, so a quality item is cheap insurance in some ways.

this

[Guilt-Toy]

i have had a cheap cam gear on my car for the last 4 years. only problem was with the bolts - they just needed to be replaced.

[turboedsloth]

Have a look at Nitto or even Kelford, they are reasonably priced and look good

[Adriano]

LOL @ all the people saying only buy jap ones, when up until the latest HKS cam gears were renown for slipping and the tooth material wearing. From what i have seen the outers on most of the cheaper gears are steel, and 5 bolts, just the qualtiy of the capscrews are poor.