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I bought a 731 cam earlier this year. Its a popular cam, Think I got on fb powerboat swap shop, new, in box from somebody who bought it and never used it. look around, you can save yourself a couple hundred.

FYI with those cams, some say they will work with stock lifters some say they wont. I took no chances and got some crane lifters. New lifters on a new cam is usually a nice thing too....

the 168731 cam is available from walmart too

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Crane-Hyd...8731/100022644

Since when does Walmart sell Performance parts........? Not the best price though, I'd rather pay more and not support Walmart.

Got one boxed up ready to ship. About 90 hrs on it, in perfect condition

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Originally Posted by Sonic30ss (Post 4541751)

Got one boxed up ready to ship. About 90 hrs on it, in perfect condition

THX ! I'll keep that in mind, if you had two with 90 hours on them I'd go for it.

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Originally Posted by Sonic30ss (Post 4541751)

Got one boxed up ready to ship. About 90 hrs on it, in perfect condition

168731?

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Originally Posted by Baja Rooster (Post 4541837)

168731?

Oops sorry I have a 791, posted before coffee..carry on

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Originally Posted by Baja Rooster (Post 4541488)

Would it be worth it to buy from Teague just for the extra support value?

When my cams arrived I was expecting them to be Crane's. To my surprise they were the in plain white boxes no name or anything. The cam card was just printed on a scrap piece of paper but it had all the #'s. I had a few questions regarding the degreeing procedure so I called up Teague. It was after hours for them but I was connected with Bob. He answered all my questions and walked me through the procedure FWIW.

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Originally Posted by Sonic30ss (Post 4541840)

Oops sorry I have a 791, posted before coffee..carry on

Cam still available? Btw your inbox is full.

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Originally Posted by MILD THUNDER (Post 4541418)

Without a doubt, teague copied cranes designs. You'll see in teagues product description, says they are made by "andrews products". Andrews products appears to be a company that you can send in a design, or a camshaft, and they can duplicate it for you. My guess, is probably at a much cheaper cost than Teague can get them from Crane direct for, which in turn, means more profit. He probably found the crane grinds worked, and wanted to offer them to customers, but wanted to make some more $$ in camshaft sales. As you'll see by comparison, except for the stage 1 having 2 more deg of exhaust duration, the rest are identical. Advertised, .050, and lobe lift. Identical.

http://www.andrewsproducts.com/camsh...lysis-programs

What constitutes a "copy" of a profile could be debated. Profiles can match duration at two lifts and max lift, yet not be a copy. Maybe that's too much "Inside Baseball", but I wanted to point that out.

Andrews is a leader in the industry. As noted above, they sell software that many other organizations in the industry use to generate cam profile data. They wouldn't have a need to copy somebody's profile, but could certainly match duration and lift specs if they wanted to.

Crane isn't a standalone entity anymore. Their portfolio was purchased by Comp Cams sometime after 2010. The decision Teague made to change suppliers could have been due to parts availability rather than cost. Since Andrews is in the Chicago area, I'd be surprised if their costs of production beat what Comp could do out of Memphis, TN.