[Tom Vaught]

This is some of the knowledge I picked up in 39 years in my job.


Secrets from 39 Years of Engine Experience

1. Study Sir Harry Ricardo's work, The High Speed Internal Combustion Engine (multiple editions) and you will find it's unlikely you will do anything that's new, and if you don't read it you will probably do everything wrong. It's that "OLD PHYSICS" deal

2. Study Charles Fayette Taylor's two volume The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice (M.I.T. Press) and realize then, for a second time, you don't know what you are doing.

3. Read anything that Smokey Yunick wrote...Then try to figure out what he DID NOT WRITE about engines in his book … Smokey Yunick died from complications related to Lukemia … He left a three volume set of books.. Read Them

4. When Honda spends $500,000,000.00 on a F1 racing engine try to pay attention to what they do. Don't ask them, they won't tell you anyway.

5. Most experts aren't, including me. I learn every day.

6. Research is the difference between speculation and investment.*Mr. Ford, Bunkie Knudson, and others in GM, Ford, and Chrysler didn't pay for Assumptions

7. Just because someone goes fast doesn't mean you should do whatever YOU "think" they did. There is a REASON why they are "fast" This path assumes you actually knew what they were doing, which isn't necessarily the case. Take this path and You will be guaranteed second place or worse.

8. Test, Test, Test.

9. A engine never makes too much power.*

10. Problem Solving, I really didn't care "Who Shot Peter". I only cared about what I had to do to fix the problem.

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(This applies to ALL forms of work.)