s13 sr20det & brian crower cam gears?

[itzgoten]

Hello everyone. I've been browsing this forum for quite some time now (2 or 3 years) but i've never had the need to post anything.. i honestly made this account just to be able to post.. i've been searching high and low for the past two days and i cannot find an answer to this issue.

I own a 72 240z with a SR20 and i'm building a SECOND SR that is fully built. The build has been under way for over a year and i just got the parts back from the shop about a week ago.

now to the point.. I have the head put on and we just finished putting on the stage 3 BC cams. I pulled out the BC cam gears and they dont look like the OEM ones. The exhaust side doesn't have the spider gear for the CAS. My mechanic said that he tried to pull off the spider gear but it looks like one piece.

My question is.. WHAT DO I DO? do i just have the wrong cam gears? Only cam gear i see online that has the spider gear was the GReddy one. At this point it might be easier for me to go with the OEM cam gears for now. What are we doing wrong? what am i missing?

Please help.

these are the BC gears that i have


this is what OEM looks like.

[the converted]

I know that some of them that you can take them off. I know there are two different styles of cam gears from the factory and you might be out of luck. I'd shoot them an email and see what they have for advice.

[itzgoten]

Converted, I was thinking i'm out of luck as well. I know that HKS sells the cam gears with the spider gears. I tried to search online to see if I could plug the CAS hole and just run off the back distributor. not sure if the car is able to run without a CAS. I'm using an Apexi Power FC as engine management but again.. not sure if CAS is required for the car to run. I'll see what else i can find.. if not.. i guess i'll have to trade for a HKS cam gear. what a shame though. my entire head is mainly BC parts

[the converted]

The distributor won't clear the firewall so you can rule that out. I had a hell of a time getting my HAND in there to tighten down the coolant line for the turbo. I'll take a dig through my parts and see what I have up here since you're only down in SJ.

[itzgoten]

thanks a bunch.. much appreciated.

If anything i'm just going to run the stock cam gears for now. the shop is already building the motor and the stock gears are already on and the timing chain is put in. we just got done with the GReddy RAS install but they have been somewhat busy with other cars.

I just don't get why they'd sell the cam gears like that if it wouldn't work.. there has to be something (probably obvious) i'm missing out on.. or something i don't know..

[the converted]

I THINK that the original cam gears were the two piece set up the Nissan started making the notch tops and redesigned the gears that went into the s13 blacktops with a little bit of overlap to the red tops. I could be completely wrong, but that is my hypothesis.

[the converted]

So I looked at mine and they look exactly like yours. My gear was already off so I tried to put it back together, and it seems like it is a bit of a press fit. I'd take a shot or two at it with a rubber mallet and see if it comes apart.