I thought there were a few others... although...they had them sitting in there garage...I have not heard from brian about the strong lope...but I have my idle kicked up so it is not that noticable...I will work on getting a video w/ sound when I put it back on the dyno...yeah, springs, push rods, 1.7 quick lift rockers, valve seats, and dbl roller timing set...Vinci did all the work and yeah, SOTP meter tells me about 20 horses...plus very free reving.
How far are you from Central Florida...I'd be happy to meet anyone and take for a spin.

 

hey....someone took a small video (w/ sound) at a lunch GTG I was at today...I didn't know until just now...here it is: http://www.wilsonmultimedia.com/BigBlackRadix1.MPG
Sorry, not much of it is at idle...enjoy!

 

045 Vinci "Trucker" cam w/1.8 rockers through the cutout

http://media.putfile.com/M4V00657

http://media.putfile.com/M4V00658

Not sure about the lope "hurting" the Radix (where did you here this?) but it does make a 'gear-knocking' sound when it really starts to lope...My idle is starting to settle in but it does want to die on slow starts or sudden stops/reverse sometimes. I've gone 3/4 throttle with it so far and it really rips.....I am pretty sure I could spin my nitto drag radials through first...something I could not do before. I'll get a few more vids here pretty soon.

 

Sounds pretty mean. The lope and damaging the Radix is a rumor I heard along time ago, I'm not sure that it is true and I cant imagine that Vinci would make a cam that is for the Radix that might damage the Radix somehow. I just think a strong lope would cause the rotors to slap each other. But thay slap anyway during start up and shut down of the engine so maybe it's not a big deal.

 

How could a cam (which essentially just controls valve events) do anything at all to the Radix, which is simply driven off the crank?

 

I'm from Lakeland but I don't get down there but twice a year. When I do come down I stay in Orlando at the Holiday Inn Sunspree where I-4 meets 535. I live about 40 miles east of Pensacola. I actaully called Vinci while I was down there last time, in July, and was getting pricing. What did you pay for the cam/springs/rods/etc..? How long did it take them to put it all together? A couple of days?

 

Here is why I think it could be valid. When I was having trouble with one of my injectors and it was misfiring really bad, I had guys walking up and asking what size cam I had in my truck. I told them it was a misfire, not a choppy lope. It actually sounded really good! While I was under the hood working on it and while driving it before I got the wiring fixed, the rotors on the radix were slapping together and making a helluva lot of noise. I was worried I was tearing it up. After the misfire was fixed it sounded fine again. A strong lope, to me, sounds just like my misfire and I thought it could cause the same slapping of the rotors.

 

The stock cam has overlap though...

 

I'm just on a knowledge quest. I don't want to spend $800 to do a cam and tear up my 5K S/C. If the cam lope will not hurt the Radix, then great. I just want to make sure. The only time I think it would even be an issue is at idle but I guess if you turn the idle up to 800rpm it wouldn't matter anyway. My idle is at 500 rpm and I think that is too low with the blower and when the A/C kicks on it drops to 350-400 and almost dies and then kicks back up to 500 this all only takes 1 second but it is kind of annoying. I'm hoping a dyno will get rid of that.

 

i just got that cam today with dual springs ill install it next week let you guys know hows it feel