Drag Racer, July 2012: Piston Pins—When They Break All Hell Breaks Loose! Protect Your Engine And Check Book “It was a catastrophic engine failure. It cracked my cylinder block, destroyed my crankshaft and several connecting rods as well as one of my cylinder heads!” The man was angry, fuming that one broken piston pin led [...]

  Trend Performance has introduced what they believe to be the world’s first self-lubricating 5/16in hard-tip competition pushrods. While their lower ends, those that engage the lifter seats, remain unaltered their upper ends now feature self-lubricating tool steel tips hardened to 60Rc. Both upper and lower 5/16in diameter ball ends are formed with a 210-degree [...]

Trend Performance has unveiled its hardest and toughest piston pin to date. Code named TP1 during its development, this new piston pin is not only exceedingly hard and extremely tough but also it is coated and less expensive than its rival: C300 (maraging steel). Initially available for Top Fuel and Funny Cars, these new pins are [...]

Xtreme Fords, Issue #31: Flat Stick—Tool Steel Tappets Are Making A Difference. Despite the popularity of the roller tappet both in a mechanical as well as hydraulic setting, typical flat tappets, also known as lifters or followers, are still as popular as ever. While a roller tappet utilizes a roller to roll along the camshaft’s [...]

  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:  Power Company. 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: Spin It Up! The final frontier in engine testing. 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 [...]

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 [...]