[Wayne 962]

I've heard through the grapevine about it. Sounds like a neat device if it can be manufactured relatively inexpensively. Although Jake has been very secretive on what he's doing, if I were to build a device like this, I would simply tap a small monitoring computer into the OBD port on the car. This box would monitor camshaft deviation over time (I talked about how camshaft deviations were an indicator of failure of the shaft). When monitoring and tracking this information over time, you can see changes and disruptions, both from the normal operation of the car, and also from the normal specs that the car should have. In other words, if the deviations match certain patterns of failure, it could alert you. Or, if the device shows that your car's cam timing is changing over time (it really shouldn't), then that would toss up an alert as well.

All of this can be done with an OBD2 scanner, but I think having a neat little warning system would be very user friendly.

-Wayne