jbc426
Well-Known Member
A quality built motor built by an expert Mopar Technician is a good investment. Learning how to make the car work together with all it's related parts is an ongoing challenge, but part of the fun of the hobby. Over coming frustration with success when you identify something that was holding you back is rewarding.
I use Jomar 100% no bypass oil filters on my race motors. They have no place on a daily driver, but they could very well save your motor from having any metal pumped throughout the oiling system if you should ever have a minor problem that introduces some metal into your oil sump! I highly recommend them! Especially on a new motor.
I had a pushrod adjuster back off and drop off the rocker when the motor had a few hundred miles on it. (The info A little aluminum from the bottom of where the rocker got beat up was in the head around thee area of the failure. When I cut the oil filter open, which I've done every time from break-in to this incident and every time I change my oil, I used to always find a little something in there, but especially after break-in and then again after the rocker incident. I wonder how much of that would have been bypassed around a traditional filter and been circulated deep into the bowels of my oiling system without the Jomar filters. I change my oil very frequently mileage wise. it's usually more the time it's been in there that gets me to change it. The filters stay really clean now, but the first 4 or 5 changed, you could see stuff in there from the break-in and the rocker arm incident.
There's A LOT of skill involved in consistently launching a car hard. My respect goes to the guys without electronics too "help them get the job done. I know they have their place in racing and make for incredible consistency, because you can dial all the electronic stuff in( an art in it's own right), but being able to resist stomping the pedal all the way through the floor board just after the last yellow lights and nailing the green with consistent, super low reaction times is awesome!!!
Driver's with the mental discipline, big horsepower and years of experience who can work the throttle from partially open in the low gears and harder and harder as traction starts to build with the speed in the higher gears until you are wide open and heading for the finish is one of the more difficult skills in racing. Especially since track conditions vary so much from lane to lane and change as the day goes on. It's a thing of beauty to watch, but the pleasure it must bring to the driver as they really hook at the edge of the limit for their set-ups must be ******!!!
I heard a track announcer use that phrase when he was trying to explain why a top fuel driver kept at the sport after over a dozen crashes, some of which nearly ended his life, broke his back and rung his bell hard several times at the old Bayland's Race Track in Fremont, CA. It nearly killed him, but he kept coming back to race. The announcer who's voice was so famous at that venue, explained when he hits the throttle , it must be ******!"
The track has since been closed for so many years, like so many other places, and they wonder why street racing is so epidemic with the younger crowds??? Us older folks never do that kind of thing!! That track was virtually at sea level and the cool thick air from the bay made that track famous for some of the fastest times ever.
Throw a stick shift transmission in the equation, and that's where the legends are born. It's an extremely difficult thing to launch a car consistently and bring great joy to those who are hooked on this expensive sport. I just wish the nearest track wasn't over 2 1/2 hours from my house.
I use Jomar 100% no bypass oil filters on my race motors. They have no place on a daily driver, but they could very well save your motor from having any metal pumped throughout the oiling system if you should ever have a minor problem that introduces some metal into your oil sump! I highly recommend them! Especially on a new motor.
I had a pushrod adjuster back off and drop off the rocker when the motor had a few hundred miles on it. (The info A little aluminum from the bottom of where the rocker got beat up was in the head around thee area of the failure. When I cut the oil filter open, which I've done every time from break-in to this incident and every time I change my oil, I used to always find a little something in there, but especially after break-in and then again after the rocker incident. I wonder how much of that would have been bypassed around a traditional filter and been circulated deep into the bowels of my oiling system without the Jomar filters. I change my oil very frequently mileage wise. it's usually more the time it's been in there that gets me to change it. The filters stay really clean now, but the first 4 or 5 changed, you could see stuff in there from the break-in and the rocker arm incident.
There's A LOT of skill involved in consistently launching a car hard. My respect goes to the guys without electronics too "help them get the job done. I know they have their place in racing and make for incredible consistency, because you can dial all the electronic stuff in( an art in it's own right), but being able to resist stomping the pedal all the way through the floor board just after the last yellow lights and nailing the green with consistent, super low reaction times is awesome!!!
Driver's with the mental discipline, big horsepower and years of experience who can work the throttle from partially open in the low gears and harder and harder as traction starts to build with the speed in the higher gears until you are wide open and heading for the finish is one of the more difficult skills in racing. Especially since track conditions vary so much from lane to lane and change as the day goes on. It's a thing of beauty to watch, but the pleasure it must bring to the driver as they really hook at the edge of the limit for their set-ups must be ******!!!
I heard a track announcer use that phrase when he was trying to explain why a top fuel driver kept at the sport after over a dozen crashes, some of which nearly ended his life, broke his back and rung his bell hard several times at the old Bayland's Race Track in Fremont, CA. It nearly killed him, but he kept coming back to race. The announcer who's voice was so famous at that venue, explained when he hits the throttle , it must be ******!"
The track has since been closed for so many years, like so many other places, and they wonder why street racing is so epidemic with the younger crowds??? Us older folks never do that kind of thing!! That track was virtually at sea level and the cool thick air from the bay made that track famous for some of the fastest times ever.
Throw a stick shift transmission in the equation, and that's where the legends are born. It's an extremely difficult thing to launch a car consistently and bring great joy to those who are hooked on this expensive sport. I just wish the nearest track wasn't over 2 1/2 hours from my house.
