Saito FA-45 MKII Cam gear swap experiment Part 2

Well I have completed this experiment. The first pictures are of the completed engine in the stock form after reassembly. It sure is a nice looking engine! I ran the engine in its stock form and peaked it out. You can see the RPM figures on the video, but I reached a peak of 9990 RPM. My battery in the camera died before that reading was shown. I then swapped out for the 50 cam gear housing and other parts, and reset the valve lash. Without touching the needle valve from the last run the engine was already at peak. It hit 10440 RPM. That is a gain of 450 RPM. The idle and transition did not seem to be affected at all. The parts required to make this swap out are as follows: 1. Cam gear housing for a Saito 50/56/45S 2. Cam gear for 50. 3. Cam followers for 50/56 4. Push rods for 50/56 To make the change permanent you will also need push rod tubes. I did not use push rod tubes in my video to keep things a bit simpler. I was going to install a cam gear from a Saito 56, but after looking at the parts list I found the 50 and 56 share the same cam gear. Thus a definite conclusion to the experiment. I have since added a video shot today of my 45S as a baseline run for what I am trying to achieve with this experiment. The funny thing is, I have already matched the performance of the 45S with the 50 Cam gear. The peak RPM readings are the same.