Serving Professional Engine Builders & Rebuilders Since 1964
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Engine Builder Issue: September, 2002
Productivity Watchwords For Today’s Business World
Any company with a service department is selling labor. If you have a repair facility and work on cars or trucks, or have a machine shop providing machine work on engines or transmissions, you are selling labor. If you rebuild components for the
Reading, ’Riting and Racing – Performance Education
For an automotive machine shop looking to enter the world of high-performance, finding qualified machinists and engine builders that have high-performance experience could be one of the greatest challenges. These days, there is some help, as man
Conferences And Seminars Offer Many Potential Rewards
Getting away from the day-to-day grind and going to a seminar or conference with fellow shop owners and machinists has rewards that far outweigh the expense, and often may even present new business opportunities. At the Engine Rebuilders Associa
CERs
What if we had the power to predict the future? We would no longer react to situations, but instead, anticipate them. By knowing what lay ahead, bumps in the road and the roller coaster we call life would be relatively flat. Don’t you think? The
The PER Future
When you think of the future, there is a tendency to think of Hollywood or maybe Jules Verne. You might be thinking you’re going to be remanufacturing flux capacitors or rebuilding space ships. Someday maybe this will be true; however, in the ne
Associations Raise The Rev Limit For The Road Ahead
There’s no question. Better quality engines with longer warranties, characteristic of the motors produced by vehicle makers since the beginning of the 1990s, have had a significant negative impact on the demand for rebuilt engine sales and machi
Acquisitions, Proliferation Cloud Parts Suppliers Predictions
With a nod to Charles Dickens, "it is the best of times; it is the worst of times" in the engine building industry. And no matter which of these perspectives you favor, you’ll find someone in the motor vehicle aftermarket to agree with
Not Your Father’s Olds – ’50s Equipment Not Designed For Today’s Engines
When it came time to start addressing the subject of survival in the machine shop and engine building world of the future, it was obvious that we could do one of two things: consult the famed French astrologer Nostradamus or call the American As
Blowin’ Smoke; Internal Combustion Not Going Away
Government regulations" – just doesn’t sound good rolling off the tongue, does it? It adds yet another wrinkle to an already difficult mix. Hybrid, hydrogen, clean-air diesel...the government’s direction seems so uncertain. However, to oper
To The Future - And Beyond
If there is one thing the future of the industry depends on more than anything else it is highly educated and trained machinists and technicians. As tomorrow’s engines bring advanced technologies like computers, high-tech alloys, tighter toleran
Critical Cam Event Criteria
I just know someone is going to ask what qualifies me to write on this subject so let’s get that out of the way up front. During a large portion of 1985 I dyno tested more than 4,000 cam and rocker combinations in three differently spec’d SB Che
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