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A few years ago I came across a guy's ads for "Cheater cams" for BMWs in ITB. he has a aftermarket firm in CA.I shot him a scathing email, and got a equally terse response. "Gotta make money" was the message, and "If I don't sell them, someone else will", and "Get a clue, this is racing...you want it all nicey nice go play jacks"....or something along those lines. I kept the email but I lost it when my house, and computer got hit by lightning last summer.
Indeed, it is rather pervasive in certain circles.
However, I think that it is rarer at the top.
Nonetheless, the autocrossers make us look like pu$$ies when it comes to writing paper. Difference is there it's often for silly stuff, but this kind of stuff wins races. We should take a lesson from them from time to time, and write paper when it counts..
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They're still around, I just googled cheater ITB cams and they came up. This reminds me of my friend who drives a pinto-engined FC. He mentioned having a custom ground cam as a prerequesite for winning the run-offs, pre-Ztec. There's appearantly one shop that has the know-how to make the cam hard enough to last, but only the truly initiated know who they are. Of course you could always just order a bunch of stock cams and sort throught them and cherry pick the best, then sell some of the good ones as ITB "cheater" cams,( but keep the best for yourself.) There's a lot of aftermarket parts sold on the pants-seat improvements. Put in the "cheater" cam and now you have a reason to go faster, do you go faster because of the cam, or because you think you should?