National Dragster October 7, 2011: Sponsor Spotlight In the world of racing engine components, Michigan native Bob Fox has had several memorable moments. His pioneering efforts include the perfecting of the one-piece, double-tapered, 7/16-inch competition pushrod; tool steel flat tappets that operate on cast-iron camshafts, giving four to five times longer life that the originals; the [...]

Speedway Illustrated January 2012:  In the final installment of the series on KS Engineering’s winning modified engines, Kevin Stoa buttons things up, then concludes with the break-in procedure and dyno test. Click here to read the full story

Engine Professional, Oct-Dec 2011:Some of the best competition valve train specialists to emerge in the past thirty years owes much of its supremacy to extensive developing and testing of its competition parts. The test machine is a SpinTron. Parts tested are principally roller tappets and rocker arms. “Ten or twelve years ago when I first [...]

Trend Performance, the pushrod, piston pin, and tool steel flat tappet maker from Warren Michigan, has announced the arrival of their new spark plug tubes for early Chrysler 426 Hemi engines. Produced from 6061 T6 aluminum billets and finished in a hard anodized bronze-brown and supplied complete with 0-rings, these spark plug tubes prevent oil [...]

Dirt Modified Magazine August 2011: The first essential for achieving a better flat tappet is to create one that outlives every other tappet… to read the full story click here.

Performance Racing Industry July 2011: Pushrods and lifters are growing not only in size but in sophistication, and here are the latest developments…  to read the full story in PRI volume 26, number 8 starting page 80 click here.

  Speedway Illustrated, June 2011: Says modified racer Kevin Stoa, who has worked at Ganassi Racing, “When I first experienced tool steel tappets I could not believe what I saw. They ran for hours and hours at full throttle, and when I removed them they still looked like new.” Click here to read the full [...]

  Trend has announced a new, premium tool steel solid flat tappet. Intended for use on cast iron camshafts, they suit Chevrolet, Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota V8s. Ideal for engines turning in excess of 7,000rpm with higher valve spring pressures these new tool steel tappets are designed for short track oval racing, Bracket racing, and [...]

Read how racing pushrods are made in the story featuring Trend Performance beginning on page 88 of the January 2011 issue of Drag Racer, written by Sam Logan