"Year of the Cammer / Cammer Gearsets

As many here know, Jim Baillaro has been producing gear sets for the cammer for some time now.

Bill Coon wants to end up with a complete cammer kit eventually that he wants to bring in at under $10,000 for people, but to produce all the parts himself is just to big an investment. To that end, he has been talking with Jim Barillaro, and they have both been looking at alternative manufacturers to try to bring the costs down. Speaking of investments, a manufacturer has been approached, and a minum run order will be 200 gears, but the projected estimate should cut the cost of gearsets nearly in half, so everyone benifits.

Make no mistakes, this is still Jim Barillos baby, but Bill is trying to help get a high quallity piece available for his kits, at a price that more guys can afford.

All of Jim Barillaros gear sets will use the factory correct 3/8 inch pitch with .222 pin on both chain sets. Jim Barillaro has the orriginal Ford Engineering gear prints and the gears will be made of the propper 8620 material and heat treat just like the orriginals.

Bill Coon is ordering a few sets of the short bottom set gears. Bills gears on the small chain will differ in that they will be set up for 3/8 pitch 0.250 pin size for a true roller short chain, as Bill feels it important since the short chain does not have a tensioner for stretch and a true roller also has less friction. He is doing this as an experiment to see how well they work and wear, and to see if others have an interest in the true roller settup for orders.

Bill Coons stub cams will mount either of these chain gear sets, plus you have the option of factory ford gears with the stub cam, and you will still be able to run the milodon gear drive settup with Bills stub cam in place of the short chain if you so desire.

All these new gears that Jim is having machined will now be machined on a hobs machine so they will the correct helix angle.

The new gears should be available in the next few months, so Bill says to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

It should be alot of fun.... Roger