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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?

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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? :D

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

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

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? :D

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

:D

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 :D

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

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 :D

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 by eightsixboy
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...

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.

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

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.

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