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Originally Posted by Beau
I believe it was called the Crower Mileage Maker Cam.
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I did a LexisNexis search for this. Nothing. Changing terms to "Crower" AND "mileage" yielded only a 1989 article from the Toronto Star on a dragster for sale. It had a Crower crankshaft.
Changing the terms again to "Crower" AND "Camshaft" comes up with the company info (the link works):
TELEPHONE: 619 690-7810
FAX: 619 661-6466
URL:
Camshafts | Connecting Rods | Roller Lifters | Rockers | Crankshafts |
Google search gave this:
http://www.automotiveforums.com/t525...leage_kit.html with this post:
"Hello, I built 2 engines in the 70''''s with these cams (mm-1 and mm-2) from crower and used 12 to 1 compression on 1 and 11 to 1 on the other. They idled bone stock, had great pulling power on 89 octane gas with no ping and had great acceleration while getting 18 mpg in a 3/4 ton pickup pulling a 7000 lb trailer full of concrete finishing equipment! The cams hold the intake open about halfway up the compression stroke which cuts the cylinder pressure at low speeds, but gives you the same expansion ratio as the 12 to 1 compresion at speed. The other one got 25mpg in a full size chevy blazer! Crower acts like they never existed, but Predator cams is about to grind me something similar to play with as the price of fuel makes it worth looking at again. If you still check this forum, let me know and I will keep you informed if I can make it work as before since it will be a proprietary grind this time.By the way, the intake lobe looked like a roller lobe it was so wide across the nose and the exhaust lobe looked like a STOCK FLAT TAPPET LOBE."