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Camshaft Identification & Clearance (archive)
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Posted by Mark Campion on September 23, 2001 at 21:46:16:

While screwing around installing a new headgasket, I checked my valve clearances and happened to note the identification number on my camshaft...12106100802.

There was also a three digit number 304 (I think, did not write it down). Looking at my Macartney book, this would appear to be a higher performence camshaft. Is this a "Shrick" camshaft, or some oddball BMW one?

Macartney implies that if it is a hotter camshaft, my valve clearances should be .010, not .006 to .008. Is this true.

Thanks in advance for your respones. By the way, I am the idiot who blew-up his engine at the dragstrip in Oregon. It appears to have just been the head gasket. Car running good, but I have to check my timing chain. I think I need to bleed it....where the thing-a-jig is for the timing chain tensioner spring. If you know what I mean.

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