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News & Updates FEBRUARY 2003 Barker Joins Jasper Motorsports Inside . as Crew Chief for 2003. Robert “Bootie” Barker has been Dave in his first season in our cars,” said Customer Profile: named crew chief for the #77 Jasper Doug Bawel, President, Jasper Engines After Hours Auto Engines & Transmissions Team. Barker & Transmissions and co-owner of the Repair pg. 2 assumed his role after serving two full #77 Jasper Ford. “Barker brings with seasons as crew chief for the #23 Bill him great engineering expertise, but has Davis Racing team and driver Scott also shown an ability to take his engi- A New Deal for a Wimmer in the NASCAR Busch Series. neering skills and apply them to on- Lasting Seal pg. 3 Barker, 31, is a former chassis and track performance with his drivers. In shock specialist for the #24 Hendrick the past years, his cars helped Scott On the Technical Side: Motorsports team for four-time Winston Wimmer challenge for the NASCAR Troubleshooting from Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon Busch Series championship and win 1980-2002 pg. 4 (1999-2000) and for the #22 Bill Davis four of the last eight races of the season. Racing team and driver Ward Burton We believe he certainly has the ability to (1998-99). He rejoined BDR in fall, take Jasper Motorsports to the next Stump Lewis Wins 2000 as crew chief for Wimmer, then a level.” Truck Challenge for recent graduate of the American Speed For the 2003 season, Barker joins Jasper Motorsports pg. 5 Association (ASA), and flourished in his Blaney and a #77 Jasper Engines & first managerial role, guiding Wimmer Transmissions team that was among the Zach Bawel: to four NASCAR Busch Series victories most improved NASCAR Winston Cup Oh, The Potential! pg. 5 and finishes of 11th and third, respec- programs, finishing 19th in the final tively, in the NBS standings (2000- 2002 WC standings and dramatically 2001) with limited sponsorship support. improving its consistency in its first sea- Associate Sponsor “Every guy in my position wants to son with the former BDR driver. “With Spotlight pg. 7 compete against the best, and this his engineering background and what opportunity to work with the Jasper he’s shown as a winning Busch Series team and Dave gives me the platform to crew chief over the past two sea- race against the best every week in the Winston Cup Series,” said Barker. (continued on page 6) A native of Halifax, Virginia, Barker began his motorsports career working on Late Model Stock Cars for current Busch Series regular Ashton Lewis while still in college. He graduated from Old Dominion University in 1996 Published by: with a degree in mechanical engineer- Jasper Engines & Transmissions ing. Prior to joining the #22 BDR team P. O. Box 650 in 1998, Barker worked as a chassis spe- Jasper, IN 47547-0650 cialist for owner Kurt Roehrig in the Phone: 1-800-827-7455 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Fax: 1-812-634-1820 “We’re excited about being able to Robert “Bootie” Barker, Crew Chief of the www.jasperengines.com add Bootie to our race team, which we #77 Jasper Engines & Transmissions Ford believe made significant strides with driven by Dave Blaney. After Hours Auto Repair In the Chicago suburb of washer fluid, we take care of these Cicero, you will find After Hours items free of charge,” says Bielarz. Auto Repair. This full service “There is no reason to charge a repair facility, located at 2934 customer for shop supplies on their South Laramie, has been open bills. All this is already included since March, 1987. in the price of their repairs. This is After Hours is a family opera- why customers that move from our tion owned by Joseph and Edith area always come back for service. Bielarz. Their two sons, Jeff and They know the job will be done Keith, are the technicians. right way, and they won’t get Together they operate the four ser- ripped off, which is their biggest vice bays within the 7,500 square fear.” foot facility. It’s a strategy that has obviously By far the biggest priority at paid off for After Hours. “We After Hours Auto Service is their have customers that have been customer service. They strive to coming to us for years,” says respect and understand their cus- Bielarz. “And what’s even greater tomers’ needs. “Our customers is that their teenage children are are our family,” says Jeff Bielarz. also driving and bringing their “When a customer walks into our vehicles in for service.” front office, they will find a glass After Hours Auto Service has showcase filled with toys. If the been a proud user of JASPER customer has a child with them, quality remanufactured engines we ask the child to pick out a toy and transmissions for the past ten to keep at no charge. While the years. “Good product, great war- child is busy looking for that spe- ranty, no defects,” says Bielarz. cial toy, the customer can talk to We know when we install a us about their vehicle problems JASPER product, we only have to without being disturbed by the do it once.” children. By the time we have our Education is also a priority at information from the customer, the After Hours in order to keep up child has decided on the toy they with the technological advance- want. And everyone is happy.” ments of today’s vehicles. Their Little things mean a lot at After technicians attend diagnostic semi- Hours. “If a customer has a tail- nars at nearby Triton College to light bulb out, a blown fuse, low further their automotive education. oil level or needs windshield Profile After Hours Auto Repair in Cicero, Illinois, is a family-owned full-service repair facility serving Chicago’s Western suburbs. 2 A New Deal for a Lasting Seal By Raymond King, Director of Marketing for Aftermarket Gaskets, Bearings & Seals, Federal-Mogul Corporation #2, then Chevrolet and now a select engine output. The result is an Raymond King number of Ford teams, including the extremely challenging sealing envi- #77 of Dave Blaney, are relying exclu- ronment – one poorly suited to com- is Director of sively on MLS head gaskets from Fel- posite or graphite gaskets, regardless Marketing for Pro® to ensure the lock-tight seal re- of what some gasket manufacturers Aftermarket quired for a trip to the winner’s circle. might claim. Gaskets, MLS gaskets, which feature multi- “Composite and graphite gasket Bearings & ple solid layers of heat-treated stainless technologies are very effective in a Seals and is steel separated by and covered with a large number of OE and replacement responsible very thin rubber coating, first came applications, but they’re simply not for total cate- onto the automotive scene in the late capable of withstanding the casting gory product management 1980’s as a solution to significant cast- motion encountered in other engines,” in the Americas. His ing motion encountered with lighter- Rosenquist explained. responsibility includes the weight cylinder heads and engine Multiply the dynamic forces of a market-leading brands of blocks. Fel-Pro engineers have since late-model automotive engine by a Fel-Pro Gaskets, National perfected and applied this technology factor of 10 and you’ll understand the Oil Seals and BCA to a broad range of late-model replace- sealing environment in a typical Bearings. Prior to his cur- ment applications through the all-new NASCAR Winston Cup engine. In rent position, Raymond was line of Fel-Pro PermaTorque MLS™ fact, until the mid-1980s head gasket Product Manager for Fel-Pro head gaskets. failures ranked among the leading Gaskets. He started in the “Every new generation of engine durability issues facing NASCAR automotive industry as technology presents a new set of seal- engine builders. That’s when Fel-Pro owner and operator of a ing challenges,” said Fel-Pro Chief entered the performance market and racing engine machine shop Engineer Jerry Rosenquist. “At some developed the first of a series of in Chattanooga, TN. point, you cross a threshold where the advanced head gasket designs engi- Raymond received his BA dynamic forces represented in an neered to seal even the most challeng- from Vanderbilt University engine require a new approach to seal- ing Cup engines. and his MBA from The ing. A significant number of engines “We’ve literally built our reputa- University of Memphis. have crossed that threshold, rendering tion on the racetrack by helping conventional gasket materials and NASCAR teams solve their toughest Up until a few years ago, multi- designs inappropriate from a perfor- sealing problems,” said Raymond layer-steel (MLS) head gaskets were mance and durability perspective.” King, marketing director for the Fel- the exception – a sophisticated solu- The dynamic forces cited by Pro brand. “As a result, we’re always tion for the sealing challenges repre- Rosenquist include lateral and vertical the first call when Cup teams and sented in a select number of light- motion of the cylinder head due to engine OEMs have questions or con- weight yet comparatively high-horse- thinner head and block castings, cerns about engine sealing, and we power engines. reduced clamping forces, higher oper- The “exception” has become far ating temperatures and increased (continued on page 6) more common with the continuing trend toward thinner, lighter block and head castings, increased horsepower per cylinder and reduced clamping loads. In other words, today’s engines are becoming a nightmare for tradi- tional head gasket technologies, including those featuring even the most advanced composite and graphite technologies. The same trend is sweeping the world’s most brutal engine battle- ground — NASCAR Winston Cup racing, where first Dodge, including the Penske Jasper powered cars of Multi-Layer-Steel technology, such as the Fel-Pro PermaTorque™ head gasket is Ryan Newman #12 and Rusty Wallace expected to dominate the category in the coming years.