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Originally Posted by Tom Vaught
At the time that Craig, Kern, and Ken were running HO Racing, Crane Cams purchased several smaller camshaft companies and one large "Production Camshaft" company.
They bought "Wolverine Camshafts (Jackson Michigan) and Universal Camshafts in Muskegon Michigan.
They also bought a "production camshaft company" "CAMSHAFT MACHINE COMPANY in Jackson Michigan and made Don Hubbard (Camshaft Guru) the big boss. He was one of Harvey Crane's "Guys" as was Harold Brookshire.
Glenn Corwin (a Pontiac Engine type guy) was his Technical Expert. RA-II F-Bird Guy.
So Glenn used to tell me who CMC sold all of their camshaft to and where they came from. Mr Iskenderian had a cartoon one time in Hot Rod showing a dump truck "unloading (dumping) lots of camshaft behind another "camshaft company".
The point was Ed was saying that very few typical camshafts are actually made by "the company selling the camshafts".
Roller Camshafts (in the old days-YES). Production type grind hydraulic camshafts - NO.
I saw CMC grind a 744 camshaft on a production machine in under one minute and it was dead on specs when checked on the profile machine.
Would not surprise me, Craig, if Glenn Corwin did not "watch over" the orders for your HC-02 camshafts.
But back on the Warrior Deal, all Warrior did was rebox the camshaft that they bought from a wholesale warehouse in Detroit who bought it from Crane/CMC. Unless Ray or Dale dropped it it should be a good camshaft.
Tom V.
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I 've heard stories about Warrior for years, but never dealt with them. Were they that bad, Tom?