19th Annual AETC Online

Billy Godbold - COMP Cams

Billy Godbold was raised around machinery and engines on a rural farm in Mississippi. Growing up his two passions were science & going faster. Whiles receiving his B.S. in Physics at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Billy decided he would make one of these his career and the other his hobby. Billy was awarded a Ph.D. tract graduate fellowship at Florida State University. After receiving his M.S. in Physics from FSU while working with the Nuclear Physics Group, Billy moved back to Memphis and started working for Competition Cams, Inc. as a technician. Soon, he decided that going faster could be the career and science could be the tool and the hobby. Billy Godbold has been at COMP Cams for almost 15-years and has been over COMP’s camshaft design and profile development for 13-years. His responsibilities include developing camshaft profiles for COMP’s Xtreme Energy Series, NASCAR Nextel Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck series, CART, IRL, NHRA, 24-hour endurance series, sport compacts, motorcycle, ATV, go-cart and almost ever other conceivable type of 4-stroke engine application.