Piston Carnage, Will It Ever End???

By Camp Stanley

Hagerstown, MD – The 2010 racing season is what I speak of. We are almost at the end of one of the most disastrous racing seasons we have ever had! And through it all we kept kicking, fighting, biting and gouging all the demons that descended on Stanley & Weiss Racing this year.

The final, WE HOPE bit came last Saturday as we prepared to leak check the motor before going into our before race preparations for Ennis, Texas.

We had a spark plug in one cylinder a bit hard to get out and when it came out the end of it was beat like a red-headed step child!

We pulled the head off and found that we had dropped the head of ANOTHER valve and it in turn wrecked the intake valve, both valve seats and the piston. This is really getting old I’m telling you! And the two spare heads were on the spare motor under the bench. And that is all we have unlike some big hitters. So straight onto the phone to Mike Janis, our engine repair guru, extraordinaire. We coordinated getting the heads to Buffalo for Monday morning via another racer on the way up.

Joe Janis worked his magic and both heads were back to us on Friday and back in their rightful place. The JanCen crew sure knows the meaning of the word “service”! And big thanks have to go to Ken at Motorsports Unlimited for getting us all the bits to Joe so he could make our heads as good as new. Next stop, Ennis, Texas!!! It’s the first ADRL race of 2011 and it can’t get any worse!!!