Engine Failure

[Jerry Clayton]

David--
Please excuse me for what some may think is hi=jacking your thread but Ithink that this is an appropiate place for these comments especially after Rick's comments-

First off--my qualifications go a wee bit past the 1 man garage/shop
Second--In an engine, any engine, the crankshaft doesn't know what the valve cover says or what kind of rocker arms are on the heads, or even if the block is cast iron or aluminum (the brakes might know that)
Third--do a search for Keeling & Clayton California Charger ( check my gallery for a hint )
In the past year alone my car has been centerfold in Rodders Journal, cover of a some special dragster books, in a HARD cover book, National Dragster, and others that slip my 68 year old mind. Plus over the years we have had many Hot Rod, and other articals including several centerfolds and various tech features.

My cars have held numerous track records, Low ET Top Speed of meet, pole sitter,NHRA National record, Cragar 5 second club, gotten many best appearing, best engineered and also best appearing crew awards.

Revell has made 3 models, 1320inc a diecast, and Johnny Lightening one of them tiny 1/64 models---Revell has even done an reissue on one of the kits .

Besides the fuelers, I have raced Pro-Stock, was one of the first cars to run in the sevens, was the first car that qualified and made all runs in the sevens winning the race over a Pat Musi car, a Reher/Morrison car and the fastest Ford shotgun car at the time.

In mid 1980s I did considerable amount of work on stock block powered Indy Car, and work for several late model dirt stock cars---

In the mid 90s and early 00s, did kkarts with my boys, where karts and engines built by us won many regional and National events including the WKA World Road Racing championship at Daytona, Fla.

If that is enough on qualifications-----I have never had a accusump on any of them as it not only wasn't needed, added considerable weight, but the MOST important factor was because it took oil away from the engine when it needed it MOST, refilling the sump after a long hard braking/corner portion of the track---3 quarts of oil--how long does it take to pump 3 quarts of oil???? how far does your car travel in that time frame?????its like a huge leak in your oil system, taking the oil away from your bearings (and those wonderful roller rockers)---your crank knows this but the before mentioned valve covers don't have any idea--

As for oil pressure needed---we are running a 500 inch 1380hp 10400 rpm engine that most of the time doesn't indicate over 5 psi----however, it has a 5 stage scavage drysump pump that pulls over 20 inches vaccume---it will pull oil thru the engine even if the pump pressure stage goes bad

Enough for now and thanks for the rant