COMP Cams has been at the forefront of camshaft manufacturing and quality for more than four decades now. The cool thing about the company is that they are still working at advancing the technology and reliability of their products. COMP has become the first automotive aftermarket company to employ Micro Surface Enhancement to their camshaft manufacturing process.
According to COMP this process reduces peak surface roughness by 65% and in load bearing areas the improvement is 250%. As you can imagine, this surface improvement is designed to keep bearings, lifters, and anything else that comes into contact with the camshaft happy. The cool thing is that this process is currently being applied to every single LS camshaft that the company produces and we’re guessing that it’ll proliferate through the lineup.
COMP Cams Adds Micro Surface Enhancement To Camshaft Manufacturing –
Memphis, TN – COMP Cams® is the first in the automotive aftermarket to employ a new camshaft finish technology for increased strength and performance that far exceeds traditional polishing.
Micro Surface Enhancement™ (MSE) is a finishing process that improved the traditional camshaft lobe and bearing journal through a 65-percent reduction in surface peak roughness and provides a 250-percent improvement in the effective load bearing area. Spreading the contact area between the roller and cam face allows for much higher loads and lower localized stress. Additionally, MSE utilizes uniform pressure across the camshaft lobe face that reduces the surface waviness common with other finishing techniques, such as belt polishing. The resulting camshaft surface more evenly distributes load for increased durability. MSE also removes the sharp edges and microscopic machining marks that normally result from the grinding process.
The MSE process is now standard on all COMP Cams® GM LS camshafts.
OK. Neato. What did this new process add to the price of LS cams?
I might be excited if this trickles down to a flat tappet cam… none of my junk has roller lifters. . .