Anybody out there got any first hand knowledge of grinding vw cams to certain specs rather than buying for instance a Engle Cam.Just need a little knowledge!:alien

the old "i know a friend" post.

Anyway -

Richard Holzl at V Force here in Sydney gets his cams custom ground. I have one of his AP2's in Blue
Check the directory for his details

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Geez, you're making me go back over 30 years! I had a '54 cabrio with a 40hp motor that I put a 1500 crankshaft in plus the oversize barrels that would fit without boring the cases. I put a "hot" cam in it as well ( custom ground by Wade's I think)- but I regreted it from the start. Once it got "on song" it went real hard but it was a real bitch at idle. I replaced it & went back to a stock cam the 1st time the motor had to come out. I'd be careful & get to see a cam actually working in a car B4 I did another one!!

go theAP2
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Nothing 1st-hand (I settled for one of the machine-shop's standard grinds), but I believe it's either Crane or Crow Cams who do one-off custom grinds. I read an article in a non-VW magazine quite a while ago, and the equipment they had was awesome. Some of it they had even built themselves.

Thanks guys,yeh a old VW drag racer from the day,Recomended this to me and I thought I would ask some old heads on this forum who are in the know,before I tried I have a engle 110 its kool for cruising but I was looking into a cheaper alternative.Or even a 356 grind