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jpb105079

11-20-2006, 07:35 PM

is there anybody out here that has the akmee cams? i was just thinking about purchasing their complete set for my d16z6/db15b8 combo but i wanted to get some opinions about them. i tried emailing them through their website and i got no response back so far. i just want to know if they perform like theyre advertised and hows the idle.....

already searched for this topic no useful info came up.

sl@sh

11-20-2006, 07:49 PM

crower wud be better IMO, if u email them they get back to you, and akmee is identical to crower

" Low "

11-20-2006, 09:16 PM

crower wud be better IMO, if u email them they get back to you, and akmee is identical to crower

hence the reason for going akmee, same stuff .....alot cheaper price...!

jpb105079

11-21-2006, 06:50 PM

well thank you you guys like i mentioned i dont what going on with akmee but it's been like a week since i emailed and still no response and so updates on their site since '05 even king unlimited responded back in a day or two christ...............................

jimmyb34

11-21-2006, 06:55 PM

i emailed them a while back about purchasing their whole kit..... 8 months later i finally got an email... imo thats bad customer service... reason why their cam isnt in my car

" Low "

11-21-2006, 06:56 PM

one week and counting....:TD:

dragman99

11-21-2006, 07:32 PM

i'm honestly tired of reading questions regarding their cams. they "officially" annoy me.

transzex

11-21-2006, 11:17 PM

it was a cheap copy of Crower cams, Frank even said so.

sl@sh

11-21-2006, 11:44 PM

i dunno , id just get crower and call it a day, hehe

or if i wanted sumthing cheaper, then Zspeed cams and valvetrains is what i wud get
they are the same spec as the crowers, but their camgears are gold like the skunk2,s and uhm isnt Akmee the same, maybe its Zspeed hehe

transzex

11-22-2006, 12:15 AM

http://g-speed.com/ was Franks old website when he helped on TOO BBS.

Z Speed Alibaba FTW

The bad news, I've been at this for 10 years now.....

ghettoracer

12-03-2006, 04:53 AM

Hi guys, project remix was stolen in May 2006 and thus I kinda stopped paying attention to AKMEE a bit. I was just about to dyno and tune the Type-R profile on remix. Yes Type-S and R = Crower 2 and 3. And our plans was basically just to make an affordable options out there for the D series since these profiles are proven to be the best on the market currently. Then we will develop our own profile down the road. Our engineer's name is Luke Workman aka LiveForPhysics. He was really busy and finally finished school in the past summer. Now that he has a good paying main gig, he will have time to really tinker now. I've mentioned we are going prototype a new intake manifold and finally it should make some progress this winter. In any case, look for updates again.

We do have the killer package deal going on for the valve train kit so, show us your support then maybe we will follow through with the intake manifold. The tooling cost a lot of money and the tooling cost the same for us to cast a D series or a K series manifold. Which one should we do first?!

Bone, stop messing stirring things up. I care and do have a special place in my heart for SOHC VTEC. If you guys want to see cool stuff made, show us some love. I've often get the feeling that I am wasting my time wanting to do parts for D. Prove me wrong.

EG5[KRT]

12-03-2006, 05:37 AM

ive emailed you back regarding teh package to australia, Frank.

just waiting on you response.. sorry to hear about your car tho..

gimmezell

12-03-2006, 06:00 AM

go crower.

sl@sh

12-03-2006, 11:51 AM

so do we have pics of the manifold thats new? juz curious,

as the Zspeed sohc manifold is available too...

juz curious

darkoe_6

12-03-2006, 12:57 PM

okay i emailed them and they a couple of weeks ago and only now they answer me. they are having a special for the whole valvetrain kit for $525 shipped. i believe thats to my p.o. box zip 96921 usings USPS Priority Mail Service. it could be lower because you're in the states. unfortunatly, i had already had purchased my crower Stage 2 a couple of days before they answered me e-mail. i spent about $560-$580 on the crower but i'm not disappointed. crower is a great company and i'd trust their shit over some company that doesnt respond to e-mails. IMO, get the crower. anyway, akmee is a copy of crower.

" Low "

12-03-2006, 01:01 PM

darkoe_6

12-03-2006, 01:04 PM

did you get some bull crap excuse about how they were on thanksgiving or something like that. just think about whats going to happen when you send them the money for your cams.(3 weeks later) "We just got back from the planet Mars and we need sometime to process the paper work so just wait another week or 4"

jimmyb34

12-03-2006, 01:07 PM

they told me my email got "overlooked" thats fine.. but when a serious buyer is wanting to spend 600+ bucks from you.. id think it would be hard to overlook it.. oh well im happy with my exospeed stage 3

" Low "

12-03-2006, 01:08 PM

darkoe_6

12-03-2006, 01:20 PM

OVERLOOKED?! that is the worst excuse i've ever heard. except for the one i posted earlier. yeah, when a whole bunch of people want to buy your product, you tend to overlook the e-mails. even though more than half the customers are online. its okay, i dont blame them for not responding back because they probably dont have money for internet with all the products they are producing and not selling.

sl@sh

12-03-2006, 02:18 PM

im still curious as to how the akmee manifold wud look.. ive seen the Zspeed ones,

i rock the Zspeed camgear, and surpisingly, they look the same, goldish type ,

cryz2

12-03-2006, 02:31 PM

i would like to see a Zspeed manifold !!!!!

ghettoracer

12-03-2006, 11:36 PM

What can I say, I messed up... after project remix was stolen I was pissed off about Honda's for a bit and lost a lot of motivation. I literally saw the header for the mails there were inquiring about AKMEE stuff and I skipped right over them (my lame version of "overlooked") and didn't bother even to read it as it remind me of remix too much. I guess I need to replace remix with another SOHC VTEC so I can move on.

" Low "

12-04-2006, 06:48 AM

so because your car was stolen, you are turning away money....?

if this is the case you should be giving shit away.....

ghettoracer

12-04-2006, 07:17 AM

Yes indeed I was. I turned away some sales by not replying. But we are remotivated again. For the most of this year I felt sluggish and just didn't give a damn (for many reasons). After project remix won the Time Attack in Arizona by in Feb. 2006, I returned home, and just didn't felt like doing anything. And then when remix got stolen in May, it just made it worse. Anyways, I'm now re-focused. And project remix2 is breweing in my head already and here is why.

After not getting much done for most of 2006, in Nov. I got called/invited to raced a K20A Fit in Primedia's Time Attack. We won our class despite zero testing and only 1 day to rep a full show car. Anyways, long story short, I wanted to get back into AKMEE and racing again. Which was why I started to reply to all the lagging mail inqueries to several people. I didn't exactly "overlooked" those emails, the truth was simply I ignored the buyers.

This weekend I was at Streets of Willows. I got my del Sol running again. It has sat for about 2 years. It was crashed at about 90 mph at turn 2 at WIllow Springs and damaged the car a bit. I finally got it back running. It is 185 whp and 2400 lbs with driver. remix was 146 whp and 2150 lbs w/driver. Both car have nearly identicle suspension setups and brakes. So the difference was power and weight. At SOW CW config I ran 1:31.7 with remix, and 1:33.15 with delsol. I was a bit shocked. Granted the delsol's brakes weren't up to par and needs a bleed and better pads, I thought it'd be at least as fast as remix. I theorize that weight plays a major role as SOW is a tight technical track that really favors lighter cars (faster transitions). And with remix gone, I can't do more testing on it but I want to do another budget light weight car. Now comes remix2, current thinking is to build using CRX, powered by D16Z6. It will be used to show case the Type-R profile with a mid level build up that hopefully will be enjoyed by the common D series members. Right now I'm thinking target weight of 1950 lbs with driver, or lighter. 165 whp on pump gas. All parts used will be good commonly available parts. I'm going to have a talk with my engineer and see what he thinks. I'm getting very excited already. Rough guess it should be 13 second car on street tires and should turn some really good lap times at the road courses.

builthatch

12-04-2006, 09:14 PM

yeah wil responded back to me in ike 45 mins.....:TU: to exospeed...!

that should be framed and dated because that is pretty damn rare in itself....

transzex

12-05-2006, 12:59 AM

Frank, why hide after the loose of ol' yellar?

Theiving bastards!!!!!!!

Was the Fit a creation from the Dr.?

Frank has been in the "Hybrid" community about the same time as I have, 10+ years.....so he took a break, pondered what he wanted to do. Hopefully I saved the SCC issue with him in it, I'll motivate your ass!!!!!!

ghettoracer

12-05-2006, 04:24 AM

haha, bone you are an enigma sir!! i'm fucking back in full force. i just turn 33 and it's time to get it straight. no more wasting time. i really wasn't sure which direction i was going with AKMEE Engineering but it is becoming more clear now. and i hope you will start to appreciate and support us bone. stop pulling my legs randomly. :-)

the Fit is by some old timer Chinese drag racers called Dimensional 1. all the old time ppl in Cali drag seen should be no stranger to them. N1 developed their own mount kit which requires no cutting.

sl@sh

12-05-2006, 06:51 AM

ok with that said and done.. im still curious..

how does akmee differ to Zspeed camshafts? like the zspeed stage2 is like the crower 2 the zspeed stage 3 is like the crower stage3, they also have springs and retainers, , (all packed in a black box kinda like skunk2's)

now also with the camgears cuz based on old pics, u guys had the goldish center camgear,

i do not have the Akmee camgear, but i do have a Zspeed camgear, which looks identical...

so im curious...

ghettoracer

12-05-2006, 09:27 AM

Refer to AKMEE's ABOUT page, that should give you some clues.

sl@sh

12-05-2006, 03:35 PM

clues of what? i dont get it, it just say how long guys have bin around etc etc,

no explanation to how my Zspeed camgear is identical to your adjustable camgear,

sl@sh

12-05-2006, 04:13 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/sohc/Zspeed.jpg

Zspeed camgears (d16,b16 and a 4g63 i think Dsm)
Akmee?

builthatch

12-05-2006, 06:07 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/sohc/Zspeed.jpg

Zspeed camgears (d16,b16 and a 4g63 i think Dsm)
Akmee?

from Akmee website 'about' section-
"We have produced a wide range of products and we manufacture for many customer both in OEM/ODM as well as aftermarket high performance in Asia, Japan, and USA."

transzex

12-06-2006, 12:01 AM

Frank, shall I drag Joe "Locash" in here from the old boards.

I don't think the admins would know WF hit them.

Hybrid Honda forever......where this shit got started 10+ years ago!

sl@sh

12-06-2006, 01:18 AM

from Akmee website 'about' section-
"We have produced a wide range of products and we manufacture for many customer both in OEM/ODM as well as aftermarket high performance in Asia, Japan, and USA."

ok yes i read that, its just sumthing that strikes my curiousity,

i got my Zspeed camgear from a direct dealer, since i live here in south east asia...
and Zspeed has bin making their stuffs for a while, and they actually made alot of stuffs for a well known US based company until the by 2002 when they parted ways.... (Akmee) cuz my camgear came in a box with the said US brand name hehe directly from zspeed

so it sumthing im curious of, both akmee and zspeed have the same exact model/designs?

if Zspeed got their products from Akmee, then i think it woudnt make sense if another US based brand used to get stuffs from Zspeed, thats like buying from two retailers hehe ,

or is Akmee a Zspeed product, rebadged as Akmee?

ghettoracer

12-06-2006, 03:33 AM

You are reading too much. Besides, why do you care anyway? As long as you can get a qualify product at a good price, do you really care want brand it is?

sl@sh

12-06-2006, 03:46 AM

no not really, like i said im curious,

sum do care about who or where it was actually made,

so dont tel me im reading too much, cuz i didnt read much i know where i bought the zspeed camgear i have etc, and

once again , to some, actually knowing who made it is of importance, as much as the quality of the product,