Thread: Clevite bearings vs King bearings.

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I just to post a reply here wether it's relevent or not. I sift through all of these posts and realize I'm back in my preteen years reading some rag of the "coolest way" to build a car; engine, or what ever. I didn't much care for my jr high teachers or high school teachers because I thought there was always a short cut somewhere out "there". After 37 yrs of building successful drag, nascar, and outlaw sprint car engines, I find myself appearing to be my dad and scratching my butt and shaking my head wondering,"Why doesn't he get this stuff?" bear with me please, I have gone through all these "trials" and have to slap myself in the face to remember that there are no stupid questions. Always remember the geometry that makes all these components work. Load forces, combustion forces, angles of load disribution, rotating mass, etc. These are what make you run or "blow-up". Geometry is "EVERYTHING". Sorry to sound like your math teacher but it is all you need to know. If your rotating assembly is perfect, so is your effort. The bearing solution is only as good as your work and or assembly. I can argue and recite politics about manufacturers all year long but it still comes full circle to how you prepped and built the engine. King has great stuff. Clevitte has good stuff. FM has good stuff. Any thing can withstand the load and pressure is good. Always start with the goemetry, then worry about parts. By the way, my first project in Top Alchohol Funny cars was a puny 481 Rodeck that set the first 6.00 elapsed time and was not torn down between runs until it reached 50 runs and still showed no signs of fatigue or abnormalities. Not bragging, but it let's you know that what you are trying to do is more physics than a marketing ploy with ego's attached. I hope this helps.