Trend Performance News

“Eight years ago, I started with Schumacher Racing; five years ago when we encountered excessive pushrod deflection I switched to Trend Performance. We’ve been with Trend since.” Todd...

The most revealing sign of a pushrod’s capability is its resistance to undue deflection—its column stiffness. Until 1993, meaningful research into valve train testing had not been possible. It...

Today theMichiganfirm Trend Performance is the largest manufacturer and supplier of pushrods in racing and in the performance after market. But in 1988 when Bob Fox founded his pushrod company,...

Hot Rod magazine has been at our industry’s forefront longer than most of us have been around. Though they’ve been sustaining the momentum of hotrods since January 1948, often it’s to their...

Lash caps increase the diameter of slender valve tips. On race engines running skinny 6 or 7mm valves, lash caps allow the nose roller of the rocker arm a greater footprint on which to operate....

What you need to know about titanium valves, lash caps, and pressed-in hard tips. Written by Moore Good Ink, Compliments of Speedway Illustrated: Read about this story in the June 2014...

Race Tech Magazine, July 23, 2013 Life is never easy for the valves in a racing engine. The pounding they received from the rocker arms is merciless, particularly in high revving...

Producing valve locks and lash caps is a tricky business—one that has brought pandemonium to many a machine shop in the past. Even when they master the techniques and can produce these...

Extreme Action, Issue 106: The final frontier in engine testing Jesel, one of the best competition valve train specialists to emerge in the past thirty years, owes much of its supremacy...

Some of today’s high-performance diesel engines are reputedly running 200lbs of boost, 18:1 compression ratio, 30-degrees advance, and 100% over-injectors for double fuel delivery. To...