It would be nice if all cam manufacturers had the lobes listed in a master cam lobe list that showed not only their advertise duration and lift for each lobe & lobe family but how each lobe rise’s up and falls in small increments and beyond the .050 industry standard.
I've been thinking for some time to somehow get a library started on this site of detailed cam profiles. But to be of any use, it needs to be:
highly standardized
both readable in text and downloadable in something like a comma delimited format (for computation work)
I'd propose that the lift increments at the lifter be something on the order of .002". That fine level of data is needed if you want to accurately compute things like accelerations. A summary of the major lift points like .006, .020, .050, .100, and .200" could be extracted and posted as another for quick reference.
What I don't know how to do is to be able to store and source such files on a site like this. Maybe one of the moderators could help with something like that?
BTW, I have sought this type of data a couple of times from cam cam mfr's. Even with assurances that I wanted it only for my own personal use in modeling and was not a secret agent for another cam mfr, it was not going to happen. Jones' reaction to my request was to simply stop answering my cam inquiries ... pretty rude. The Howards' reaction was "sure you can get it... buy the cam" LOL
