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News & Updates JANUARY 2002 Dave Blaney To Drive Jasper Engines Inside . & Transmissions Ford in 2002. Customer Profile: Jasper Motorsports has tition in the World of Outlaws, announced that Dave Blaney United Sprint Association, DuPage Tire & Auto, Inc. pg. 2 would take over the driving duties and the All-Star Circuit of of the #77 Jasper Engines & Champions. He won the WoO Re-Thinking The Engine Transmissions Ford Taurus for Championship in 1995 and Bearing pg. 3 the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup finished in the runner-up posi- Season. tion for the title four times. Blaney, 38, now in his second ”I’m looking forward to the On The Technical Side: full season in the NASCAR new challenge,” said Blaney, Maintaining The Diesel Winston Cup Series, finished 3rd who is married and has three Fuel Injection System pg. 4 in the 2000 Raybestos Rookie of children. “I think there is a the Year standings, behind Matt lot of potential at Jasper Introducing... Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Motorsports. The chance to Before making his first Winston work with Ryan and the whole The InfoLetter pg. 5 Cup start in October of 1999, JASPER team, as well as the Blaney finished a solid seventh in opportunity to run Penske JASPER NASCAR the NASCAR Busch Series points Jasper Engines and a Ford Getaway pg. 6 standings that same year after Taurus makes me confident capturing four pole positions, and about the future.” finished in the top-10 13 times. Blaney replaces Robert “The Jasper Engines & Pressley, who finished the Transmissions Racing Team has 2001 season 25th in the dri- come a long way in the past cou- ver’s point standings. The ple of years,” said Doug Bawel, co- JASPER Motorsports team owner of Jasper Motorsports. finished 23rd in the owner’s “This season has been our best points. ever. The combination of Ryan Pemberton, Dave Blaney and Penske Jasper Engines brings infinite possibilities for the future.” Blaney, who hails from Hartford, Ohio, is one of open- wheel racing’s most respected and successful racers of the past two Published by: decades. After winning the 1984 Jasper Engines & Transmissions United States Auto Club Silver Dave Blaney will drive the #77 Ford P. O. Box 650 Crown Championship, Blaney Taurus for the 2002 NWC season. Jasper, IN 47547-0650 won 192 winged sprint car feature Phone: 1-800-827-7455 events during 17 years in compe- Fax: 1-812-634-1820 www.jasperengines.com DuPage Tire & Auto Center, Inc. The DuPage Tire & Auto Center, Inc. provides full mechanical auto- mobile repair and service to the residents of suburban Chicago. The owner, Bob Shanahan, received his automotive experience from the Wyoming Institute of Technology. After that, Bob continued his automotive career at a A family operation: Debbie Shanahan, Pontiac dealership, and at a Good- Bob’s wife of 22 years, works the year tire and auto center. In 1986, front desk of DuPage Tire & Auto Shanahan struck out on his own and Center. started DuPage Tire & Auto. His Bob has been using remanufac- first shop was a rented facility in a tured products from Jasper Engines Villa Park shopping center, but in &Transmissions for over eight 1992, Bob moved his business to its years. He installs eight to twelve gas present location at 1200 East engines, transmissions and differen- Roosevelt Road in Lombard. tials each year. “We prefer to rec- Bob is one of five ASE Certified ommend to our customers quality Technicians that handle the six ser- products with a nationwide warran- vice bays at DuPage Tire & Auto. ty,” says Shanahan. “We won’t put a Bob requires his technicians to take product in your car that we wouldn’t two automotive classes each year, put in our own.” then they must take one test per year Not only is Bob Shanahan active at to stay on top of the latest automo- his shop, but he is also active in his tive advancements. DuPage Tire & community. Bob has been a mem- Auto has also earned the ASE Blue ber of the area Chamber of Seal of Excellence, in which a com- Commerce for ten years. He is pany must have 75% of its repair President of the Oakbrook Terrace technicians ASE Certified, and there Lions Club, and is chairman of the must be a certified technician in local Police and Fire Commission. each area of service offered. But when Bob is not out serving in DuPage Tire & Auto is also a fam- his community, he and his associ- ily operation that gives personalized ates continue to serve existing and attention to its customers. Debbie new customers of DuPage Tire & Shanahan, Bob’s wife of 22 years, is Auto like they were part of his own one member of the office staff. family. Profile DuPage Tire & Auto Center of Lombard, Illinois, provides full-service mechanical and auto repair to the residents of Chicago’s western suburbs. 2 Re-Thinking The Engine Bearing By Jeff Richardson, Product Manager - Engine Bearings Federal-Mogul Corporation embedability. Tri-metal bearings established durability thresholds Jeff Richardson are not, however, highly resistant to exceeding 150,000 miles for their wear and are especially susceptible latest engines. currently is to damage when paired with an The increased wear resistance of Product Man- inadequate crankshaft finish. bi-metal aluminum alloys is due in ager for En- Crankshaft finish is a critical large part to the use of silicon, gine Bear- issue at both the OEM and after- which produces significantly ings, Timing market levels. In spite of the fact greater surface hardness. The sili- and Oil that OEMs utilize computer-con- con particles also help polish the trolled grinding and polishing tech- crank surface during engine opera- Pumps for the niques, OE crankshaft finish char- tion, further reducing friction and North American aftermar- acteristics can range from excellent related wear. ket. He has worked for to poor. This problem is magnified An additional benefit of Federal- Federal-Mogul for the past in the engine rebuilding industry, Mogul’s A-Series and similar bi- six years. Prior to that, Jeff where grinding and polishing metal materials is their increased was an auto technician for methods may permit greater finish bearing wall size control; because ten years. Richardson variability. When these crankshafts the bearings are unplated, manufac- keeps his ASE Master certi- are installed in engines equipped tured wall variances can be reduced with tri-metal bearings, perfor- by as much as 40 percent. This fication up-to-date and also mance and durability can be com- improves oil clearance tolerances teaches Auto Shop in the promised. and, in fact, makes it possible to local adult continuing edu- Until the mid-1990s, there were maintain OEM clearances over the cation program. few alternatives for OEMs and life of the engine — thereby reduc- remanufacturers faced with a grow- ing operating noise, vibration, and ing number of performance and harshness. The dominant engine bearing durability complaints. All of that material in the automotive industry changed with the development of Looking Back at Tri-Metal over the past 20 years is dominant bearing materials featuring alu- Alloys no more. minum alloys and small percent- The chief performance benefits of Overplated copper-lead (or ‘tri- ages of silicon. tri-metal bearings have become less metal’) bearing alloys have been important with each new generation virtually eliminated in new passen- of engine technology. ger-vehicle engines from major Tri-metal materials are softer and, domestic and overseas engine man- as a result, more conformable than ufacturers. Moreover, this trend other materials to slight variations can now be seen in the aftermarket, in engine geometry. In today’s where production engine remanu- engines, however, a bearing journal facturers, in particular, have that has not been restored to facto- embraced the benefits of a new ry-specified tolerances will cause breakthrough in engine bearing unsatisfactory operating noise and technology. limited durability. Bearing con- That technology? Bi-metal alu- These new bi-metal alloys, such formability, therefore, is at best a minum alloys containing small per- as Federal-Mogul’s ‘A-Series’ short-term solution to a more seri- centages of silicon. materials (above at right), deliver ous problem. Tri-metal bearing alloys were the greater seizure resistance than tri- predominant OE and aftermarket metal materials while dramatically technology from the late 1970s to reducing or eliminating bearing (continued on page 7) the mid-’90s, due largely to their wear in a wide range of automotive unique combination of perfor- and truck engines. These attributes mance characteristics: high fatigue are particularly appealing to vehi- strength, seizure resistance, and cle OEMs, many of which have 3 On the Technical Side: By Jim Wendholt - JASPER Maintaining The Diesel Fuel Injection System Fuel Injection Technician Water is considered the greatest 2. Several fuel quality issues can Jim Wendholt enemy of the Diesel Fuel Injection be addressed with a fuel additive. system. The water will rapidly These problems include excessive has been as- wear and oxidize steel components wear, gelling from cold weather and sociated with and lead to: dry or low lubricity conditions. JASPER for • Rust and corrosion of compo- There are many additives on the 25 years. nents. market. Check with the original Jim has been • Governor metering component equipment manufacturer of your failure. specific fuel injection system for a member of • Sticky metering components in their recommendation. the Engine both injection pump and nozzle. 3. Fuel filtration is critical in main- South Fuel Room since • Injection component wear and taining the performance and long 1980, and is responsible for seizure. life of your diesel engine.

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