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shadowfocus603

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Is it fact or fiction that any cams built for clones or either style 212 are interchangeable? I am looking at the DJ-1112P .308 cam but the description explicitly states not for hemi which goes against what I thought I knew.
 

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well.. all gx and true clone cams are interchangeable.
but with 212 enignes?.. IDK.

Rato changed a bit or two, some parts are closer to Kohler engines, others resemble Subaru'esque appearance IMO..
maybe it's as little as the ID of the bearing, or the alignment dot being on the wrong tooth to be perfectly interchangeable,
but maybe the gear is just the wrong size (or toothprofile)
maybe the cam lobes are spaced differently on Hemis to allow for larger valves
(to me it looks as if the Hemi indeed has the valves spaced slightly further apart than a nin-hemi.. but since I only have pictures for rato/predator engines.. I can't tell for sure)

So if the descriptions says "does not fit..."
You should be fairly sure "it will NOT FIT!"
since frankly I doubt a mfg would exclude a popular engine for no reason.

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It is my understanding that gx200, clones, and Hemi Predators all use gx200 camshafts.
Non-Hemi Predators use a different one.
 
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