The good:
I like Erson because a lot of their stuff is what I consider old school grinds. Lazy ramps, slow lift rates, low lift.....just right for an everyday street machine. Not everything needs the fastest and most aggressive rates of lift. Who wants a lot of valve train noise from a hydraulic grind? Not me.
Some bad:
I remember when we had a Super Shops years ago in Macon, those guys would try to sell those cams with like .425 lift and 240 @ .050. lol Then when we would say something about the low lift, they would come back and try to sell the Erson 1.6 rockers. lol I don't know.....when everybody else's lift with the same duration was .500 or more, it just seemed like Erson was kinda fallin behind. Maybe it was just that the Stupid Shops as we called um only carried one particular line. I know, one minute I talk about likin the low lift (and I do) and the next complain about it. lol I even went through the Erson master catalog back then and they all seemed low on lift. That's a good thing when you want it, but when you don't, it's nice to have alternatives.
More bad. You asked:
I have tried for three solid years to get Erson tech on the phone. Never gotten one single answer. I am not the only one, either. Course, now since I am not building a slant six anymore, I don't need to call Erson.
Suggestion:
Seems to me Erson is kinda a "underdog" or almost unknown cam grinder. Yall need more advertisement. I see Comp, Crane, Isky, Lunati and on and on but rarely see Erson ads anywhere, and it ain't like I got turnip leaves stickin outta my *** where the internet's concerned. lol
All in all, I think yall have good products. I gotta 360 I am building for a member here and guess what? I actually SOUGHT OUT a 30 year old Erson hydraulic grind just for his build. It's a perfect match.
Lastly, since you asked a bunch of Mopar people what THEY want, I tell you what you do. Go look at the Mopar cams available on the Hughes Engines site and on the Howards Cams site. Pay particular attention to the amount of lift PER duration. You'll see they grind a ton of lift for a given duration taking advantage of Mopar's whopper john .903 lifter diameter. Lotsa companies ain't doin that. Look at Comp. Same cookie cutter cams as everybody else, UNLESS you go with like their Purple Plus grinds and they ain't very many.
