General Kinetics catalog

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Heres info I grabbed from Yellowbullet
Looking for info on cam A6M-292-R
Since you asked, I'll give everyone a very very short history of me, so you'll know where I came from.
1969---Went to work for State of Mississippi as computer operator, rose to be lead operator at CDPA, Central Data Processing Agency.
1972---Began working on cam design program in my spare time.
Dec 15, 1972---Sold 310AP SBC solid to Reed Cams, Georgia, for $125.00.
1973---Made $3000 selling to Reed, Isky, Engle, Norris.
1974---Designed Reed's RxxxULX line of rollers, and a lot more, including Benny Parson's 1975 Daytona 500-winning cam. Also Shirl Greer's TF/FC NHRA National Champion Nitro Funny car cam, designed for Norris, and it was a True Chrysler flat tappet, with .438" lobe lift.
1974---Became General Kinetics' cam designer, worked with people like Bill Jenkins and Jack Roush on the cams for their ProStockers.
1976---Jenkins wins Pro Stock Natinal Championship, with GK doing large-barrel cams.
1977---I start in January with Competion Cams, as their original cam designer. Over the next 3 years, I design them hundreds of cams, including the 268 High Energy. I introduce them to the unsymmetrical cam.
1979---I write them their 1st in-house cam design program. Before that, we shared a program with Cam Dynamics.
1980---After negotiating since late 1976 for some stock ownership in Competition Cams, I leave and start UltraDyne on April 1st, 1980. The 1st month I design the 288/296F5 and the 288/296R6, the 2 most popular cams I ever made.
1981---In September, I hire my 1st employee, Mike O'Neal, who ran my shop, made all my models and masters, etc.
1982---We're running 2 shifts, from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Tim Goolsby comes to work for me, he is Mike's brother-in-law. I also design UltraDyne's first hydraulic cams, such as the 272, the 276, the 288/296H.
From then on until 2000, we all just worked. UltraDyne grossed over $1.2 Million a year from 1990 to 1999.
2000---A number of independent factors began to take their toll---Federal Mogul acquiring my 2 major solid lifter core manufacturers, and their later Chapter 11, Lifter companies disappearring, tremendous cash-flow problems in the end of 2000, initially triggered by the UPS strike---We lost around $50,000 in the strike.
2001---A un-named cam company in Memphis hires 8 of my 12 employees, and 2 more just leave because they think --that's it. Only Tim and Gail are left with me.
2001-2003---UltraDyne is in the Chapter 11 'Death Spiral'. I take a $0 salary for 2002, and pump all my, and my wife's, retirment money into UltraDyne, along with all the equity I could get on my house, etc, etc, etc.
June 2003---Everything is gone, the government locks the doors.
August 2003---I go to work at Lunati, charged with completely re-doing their entire line of cams. Mike is already there, waiting for me, along with Steve Slavik, who worked for me for 13 years (Mike for 19...). Then I meet the corporate world.....
Oct 2004---Lunati introduces the VooDoo cams. And they really work good.....

This has been the line and times of a cam designer, and even with the down sides, it has been the time of my life, and I'm going to stay at it as long as I can.....

No comments are necessary, you are all a great bunch, and as that Great American, Minnie Pearl, said, "I'm just so proud to be here!"

Thanks,

UDHarold
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The closest I could find online Steve is the Chevy version (of course) C1H 292 R. Its specs were .450/292 on a 114. I don't know how that would equate to a Mopar grind, though. I'm kinda surprised at the 114 LSA, because they were known for either 107 or 109 LSA a lot.
 
Thanks Rob, I can measure the lobes/base circle easy enough to get lift, and duration I'm assuming is 292. Would be nice to be able to read up on it.
I've been told it's a mechanical(M), the "R" is apparently (from what I've read) stands for Redline(white box line of cams??)
I've been told it's a SFT, unfortunately no lifters.
RustyRatRod said:
The closest I could find online Steve is the Chevy version (of course) C1H 292 R. Its specs were .450/292 on a 114. I don't know how that would equate to a Mopar grind, though. I'm kinda surprised at the 114 LSA, because they were known for either 107 or 109 LSA a lot.
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4spdragtop said:
Thanks Rob, I can measure the lobes/base circle easy enough to get lift, and duration I'm assuming is 292. Would be nice to be able to read up on it.
I've been told it's a mechanical(M), the "R" is apparently (from what I've read) stands for Redline(white box line of cams??)
I've been told it's a SFT, unfortunately no lifters.
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Hmm.....I'm not so sure. If it's much under .500 lift, it's likely hydraulic, so I'd be careful.
 
Hopefully somebody here has a GK catalog and can tell you for sure. Somebody's gotta have one.
 
Measured base circle, 1.2500", lobe 1.5560, so with my redneck measuring, lobe lift = 0.306", so .450(ish) valve.
On the front stamped you can see 1149
as well as A6M-292-R.
K57, CWG also on it. Google brought up limited info.

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Always makes me smile when i see General Kinetics name... They were the first cam i ever owned, they were based here in detroit and i was 18 and walked in asking bout cams.. they sold me a new cam for like $30..(1980s and a small block chevy) it was WAY too big cause i was a teenager and wanted a monster cam... but still fun :)
 
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