Jimmy Owens lost 3 engines this weekend?

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Jimmy supposedly dropped a valve Thursday, burnt a valve Friday, the one last night was the only one that is actaully FUBAR.

I seen Dohm said his was lapped out. If so, he was playing with fire thinking it was going to make it all weekend.

I think dohm said the potential backup was lapped out.

[Jed]

Is it fair to blame the heavy track conditions and only having 48 cars on hand? I was thinking, in hindsight, with no fans in the stands, it wouldn’t have hurt anything to have had a dry slick track all weekend.

[bleedblue55]

Jimmy supposedly dropped a valve Thursday, burnt a valve Friday, the one last night was the only one that is actaully FUBAR.

I seen Dohm said his was lapped out. If so, he was playing with fire thinking it was going to make it all weekend.

The lapped out engine was back at their shop, they decided to not have someone bring it to Eldora for Saturday.

[zyoung25]

I went back and read it again, you guys are right.

[King1]

Vic told me he didn’t like doing the pro motors. Said they ran em too hard in a car that didn’t allow air to get to the radiator. The local guys he doesn’t mind, but the national touring guys can make you look bad, simply because they put em through too much.
Cant fault Vic though.
Remember when Durham had a bunch of motors hand grenade at golden isles a few years ago? I remember every car that had a Durham ford had glowing headed tubes and then they left it laying on the track shortly after.

[bleedblue55]

All the engine builders use multiple aftermarket parts, one bad batch of any component and you have failures before the culprit is detected.

[obamaracing#1]

I don’t know how teams can afford those motors. Seems like 2020 surely there would be a better way when it comes to motor production.

[NeedforLMspeed]

Would be disappointing having to go to I-80 next for 3 days.

[Necrosis]

All the engine builders use multiple aftermarket parts, one bad batch of any component and you have failures before the culprit is detected.

There's no "bad batch of a certain component" anymore. Valve springs is a maybe, but that can/should be caught before any repeated disasters. With today's valve spring tech, and the fact that they're not beating on springs like say, Pro Stock, there's not much else to fail. These engines are not "pushing the limit" like some think. Keep the harmonics at bay, and 500-700 laps should be no problem if maintenance is halfway decent. Somebody F'd up!

[dirtcrazy4u]

Your comparing a pro stk motor to a dirt track build ? Really. How many nights do you think they run a motor before getting it freshened up ? Your 500 to 700 laps is a stretch also. Valve springs is a maybe, Yea I guess so, after it's to late.

[bigascg]

Actually there is Still bad batch of parts!
Beginning of the year Clements has a bad run of new rods, we’re cracking in the thread holes, lost a few motors and then made good on a lot of rods for Their customers

[riddle28]

cool, humid and wfo arent a great combo for a 9000 rpm engine. Hedge(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word) said they turned the fuel pressure up for some insurance, most these guys cant hardly change their own plugs so they dont know what to do on timing and fuel with changing weather and tracks so they burn them down with a standard tune

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Yeah, people in every country still mess up manufacturing processes.

[fastford]

i think it was that new tar juice jimmy was using , it hooked to hard for the engine to stand it ......lol...

[Escobar]

There's no "bad batch of a certain component" anymore. Valve springs is a maybe, but that can/should be caught before any repeated disasters. With today's valve spring tech, and the fact that they're not beating on springs like say, Pro Stock, there's not much else to fail. These engines are not "pushing the limit" like some think. Keep the harmonics at bay, and 500-700 laps should be no problem if maintenance is halfway decent. Somebody F'd up!

Andy Durham had to pull several of his engines due to a manufacturer defect last year at Golden Isle.