Solid roller oil
Cool. Some brain cells say Van Cleve ran Fords.
They did run Fords. They owned (I think Jim still owns it) a Ford dealership in Morton Washington. I'll ask my dad next time I talk to him how he met the Van Cleve family but I suspect it was through Chet McFallo.
Another funny story about the Van Cleve Ford. We were at a race and Jim had the valve covers off. This was about the time the "big" valve springs came out. IIRC, Edelbrock had the first springs that were 300 on the seat at 2.00 installed height. I *THINK* this was around 1986 or so. We were killing valve train parts like nobody's business. I wanted to up the spring pressure and my dad didn't.
Anyway, Jim had the valve covers off and he had 3 different brands of rocker arms on his engine. My dad said is that what happens when you get too much valve spring pressure, you break rockers. Jim said no, that's what happens when you don't have enough spring pressure.
The next day I ordere a set of Addco springs with 300 pounds at 2.00 installed height. Stopped a big part of the valve train breakage.
