DynoDon
Moderator
As many of you have heard the “RUMOR” that NKA has permitted porting for 2025. We at AKRA are faced with the situation as to permit the CL4 camshaft to our rules should NKA permit porting. We aren’t saying that we won’t but we can say not at this time.
We are concerned that there will be breakage of connecting rods, crankshafts, and even the possibility of blocks. Our concern is also that permitting the cam to our program could force the use of the billet rod. If we did permit the cam and the rod the cost to each racer in just parts would be around $115. Then shipping both ways to your builder @ $30 each way minimum adds another &60. Now you are at $175. Oh, by the way, there is labor to set the cam up. The cl4 cam may not meet the centerline of the crank you currently have so now there is labor to correct that. Labor on that entire ordeal could be in the area of $300 or more by some builders. So now there is another $475 ( for just one engine and I know some of you have multiple engines ) added to the cost of an engine that is unnecessary just for a higher rpm cam that could blow all the money spent out the front of the block. The above numbers are on the low side.
We at AKRA have worked diligently over the past several years with builders to get the engines to where they are today and we feel we have a really good package as of 2024/2025. 2025 will be the first year of no changes for this engine. I was around when the very first change happened on the flathead and watched all the changes continue from there until the rules were finally etched in stone to where there were no more changes. I personally feel that we are there now with the clone engine.
So, at this point in time AKRA is going to observe the situation to see how it all shakes down.
I leave you with this thought: you can’t just throw a cam in your engine and expect it to run up front and stay together without other changes that are costly. The more RPM the engine turns the more frequently you will need to send the engine back to the builder for repairs. We don’t want that for our AKRA community. Dyno Don
We are concerned that there will be breakage of connecting rods, crankshafts, and even the possibility of blocks. Our concern is also that permitting the cam to our program could force the use of the billet rod. If we did permit the cam and the rod the cost to each racer in just parts would be around $115. Then shipping both ways to your builder @ $30 each way minimum adds another &60. Now you are at $175. Oh, by the way, there is labor to set the cam up. The cl4 cam may not meet the centerline of the crank you currently have so now there is labor to correct that. Labor on that entire ordeal could be in the area of $300 or more by some builders. So now there is another $475 ( for just one engine and I know some of you have multiple engines ) added to the cost of an engine that is unnecessary just for a higher rpm cam that could blow all the money spent out the front of the block. The above numbers are on the low side.
We at AKRA have worked diligently over the past several years with builders to get the engines to where they are today and we feel we have a really good package as of 2024/2025. 2025 will be the first year of no changes for this engine. I was around when the very first change happened on the flathead and watched all the changes continue from there until the rules were finally etched in stone to where there were no more changes. I personally feel that we are there now with the clone engine.
So, at this point in time AKRA is going to observe the situation to see how it all shakes down.
I leave you with this thought: you can’t just throw a cam in your engine and expect it to run up front and stay together without other changes that are costly. The more RPM the engine turns the more frequently you will need to send the engine back to the builder for repairs. We don’t want that for our AKRA community. Dyno Don
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