tripoint adjustable cam gears

[Rippa]

Does anyone have the tripoint adj. cam gears??? Any gains??? I'm thinking about buying these. Any suggestions? Any Info would be good.

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[chdesign]

Yup I got them. Only the intake gear works though they haven't fixed the exhaust gear. The Hal sensor reads high and low spots on the exhaust gear and the slots to adjust the gear are in its path and mess with the cam position sensor aka hal sensor. I have a 6 degree advance on the intake cam right now but the stock gear on teh exhaust its the only way i coudl get the car to even run was not to put the adj. gear on teh exhaust side. Hope that helps you out.

 

[chdesign]

I did feel a difference with just one gear though. Maybe find someone to go in with you to buy them and just get the one gear for both of you....otherwise find someone to pay half and get one gear you half the other half and get a gear also.

 

[Rippa]

question??? is it because you have an ES model that the exhaust cam gear doesn't work?? or what?? Did you talk to tripoint about that?? Any info would be great! thanks

 

[chdesign]

The sensor reads the high and low spots on the cam gear and the bolt slots to adjust the gear are in the path of the sensor so it reads a void in the gear so it messes up the signal. I talked to tripoint but they never gave a solution. and just because I have an ES doesn't mean anything the cam position sensor on all models are the same as the motors are all the same.

 

[Rippa]

Does anyone have a solution to this problem???

 

[Zeus]

The exhaust cam hal sensor is only there to prevent people from easily changing the valve timing. I works too don't it. Look for things like this to become very popular in years to come, as a means to ensure emissions aren't messed with. It's being called enhanced tamper resistent OBDII, but it sure works to deter the aftermarket.

It can be defeated by locating a hal near the crank trigers and setting up some dummy trigers for it that match the pulley trigers. But that would be a PIA.

Best fix is to spring for a stand alone, and piss on OBD altogether. Problem is thats around 2 G's, and a ton of wiring.