Reflecting on a Diverse Career in Motorsports

horsepower engine it is insane the amount of cylinder pressure in a top fuel engine so you have to have that second wheel to support the load because that exhaust valve is trying to push and get so much pressure to get it open so this is about an eight year run we did great with it but then the rebuilds would start to overtake the shot and so we decided to just quit doing this and get back to we said anything from a a one inch down will do but nothing above a one inch we only make one lifter in one inch for pro mods and stuff like that this was uh what I was trying to show us this was a piston with narrow rings and uh worked on this in 1982. 82 yeah wow yeah for 1982 that is a really thin ring and that's only a two ring set up too that's really Advanced for that time yeah I mean you didn't NASCAR was still huge Pistons oh back then it was yeah probably 564 564 3 16. right that thing looks like it's about a 26 27 millimeter or 0.27 oh 27 yeah so tiny uh you know it's just fun old stuff this right here is kind of interesting this is an often Hauser connecting rod that's an offie Rod 11 500 RPM like an Indy car Rod yeah feel the weight of it this is this weighs like three pounds I know it's huge yeah and then a friend of mine in Northern uh Hollywood built these for Offenhauser and these would crack right across here because they're too small radius in there I got took that out of the dumpster then this was a rod that did for a quad four this ran a hundred and ten thousand test miles and nobody thought that it worked because I was running small bolts in the thing so when did the everybody figure out that the smaller Rod journals were better because those ones are huge oh why not and you see the other thing is put holes in here so the rod stretched evenly top to bottom that's why you have those in there but anyway another good idea that never made it to production uh uh the main Distributors yeah the distributor and this is a backlash checker for opinion on your distributor to the cam gear here and so this would sit like this this is a Ford that that's not a Ford Summit this is and what this does is you can check the backlash then you undo this and you'll rotate this 120 here's a four yeah tighten it up okay so you're so when the the bore in here you're trying to find out how much backlash because you would never set a ring and pinion up without checking the backlash but yet we just assume everything's right and what started is it down at uh Roush and Yates…