Tag: Camshaft

What the camshaft does. The camshaft is the conductor of your engine’s valvetrain orchestra. Its precisely shaped lobes open and close the valves in perfect sync with the pistons, letting air and fuel in and exhaust out at just the right moments. Without the camshaft, your engine would just be a chunky paperweight. How to tell […]

Your car idles at about 750-900 revolutions per minute, rpm, this requires the valves to open and close 750-900 times a minute. Without the camshaft you wouldn’t have a working engine. It is what allows air into, and exhaust out of, the engine via the intake and exhaust valves. What is a camshaft? What a […]