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Engine Builder Issue: April, 2012
2012 High Performance Engine Parts & Surface Finish Tech Guide
2012 High Performance Engine Parts & Surface Finish Tech Guide
This supplement to Engine Builder magazine presents feature articles on the relationships between a variety of performance engine parts and their surface finishes and that of the components around them.
Engine Balancing: Old School Experience Meets New Technology
Engine Balancing: Old School Experience Meets New Technology
We have come a long way from flat heads and babbitt bearings to CNC ported aluminum heads and high tech engine bearings.
Stock Car Engines and Sanctioning Bodies: Different Groups, Different Rules
Stock Car Engines and Sanctioning Bodies: Different Groups, Different Rules
The ongoing effects of the “down economy” hasn’t stopped the popularity of the numerous types of stock car racing associations that are thriving today.
Cleaning Engine Parts: Can You? Should You?
Cleaning Engine Parts: Can You? Should You?
Rebuilding an engine obviously involves many steps, one of the first of which is cleaning the engine’s parts. Okay, no news flash there. Some shops consider cleaning to be an annoyance at best, an unnecessary waste of time, effort and resources at w...
Choosing Valvetrain Components: Lifters, Pushrods, Springs & Rockers
Choosing Valvetrain Components: Lifters, Pushrods, Springs & Rockers
One of the most important steps in building a performance engine is selecting the valvetrain components that go into that engine.
The Nitty Gritty of Abrasive Safety
The Nitty Gritty of Abrasive Safety
Conventional abrasives have kind of taken a back seat to PCD and CBN cutters in the automotive world in the last few years. Since most engines being rebuilt these days are made from multi-alloy components they are more easily machined with PCD or CBN...
Smoothing Out The Stress
Smoothing Out The Stress
The words we use with such authority in our daily life are powerful things. Depending on their intent, they can motivate, impress, harm, embarrass or educate. Used incorrectly, they can also leave us scratching our heads.












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