Modified Cam Followers

[Dave Mann]

I read all the forum entries about go faster tweaks and remember a visit to one of our suppliers some years ago where he had a stack of Seven crankcases nearly as big as my RN saloon, most were cracked on the NS in line with the camshaft. He thought the cause was high lift camshafts, flattened tappets and double valve springs. We are bombarded with adverts for new cars which can do 0 to 60 mph in around 4 seconds but I don't know where these cars are because when I drive my bog standard RN saloon I have to be careful not to ram the guy in front when setting off from the traffic lights. How do drivers accelerate their modern cars so slowly, it's more like gathering momentum?