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- All my effort with people
I meet is to get 'em to come here.
If they come in the door here,
they know they're some place different.
That's they key.
Just get 'em to come here.
My name is Frank Honsowetz.
I'm the general manager of Ed Pink Racing Engines.
We do a lot of vintage racing engines.
Very special oil pumps
that we do for some very large customers.
Very unique pieces.
And do some development programs,
do all kinds of weird little projects for people.
And then, a large part of our business currently is
doing the engines for the Singer Vehicle Design Group,
for the Singer re-imagined Porsche.
I will wholly admit, I am not a Porsche guy.
But I will say that,
a Singer re-imagined Porsche is not just a car.
It is a piece of art.
And when I saw an opportunity for us to be involved in them,
that was the attraction.
Because it was just so special.
The engine that we produce for Singer,
is the very best air cooled Porsche engine you can get
as far as componentry, workmanship,
and the effort and, everything rivals
anything anybody does for any engines,
and, and in particular Porsche's.
(car engine)
They, they come here out of 25 year old Porsche's
with 100,000 miles probably on an average on 'em.
We disassemble 'em, we clean the core parts that we use,
Which are the case,
the cayenne carriers and the chain boxes.
And we clean 'em better than they were new.
We re-machine 'em again with
extremely tight tolerances maybe better than they were new.
And then we collect all the parts,
all the critical components and everything.
QC inspect everything,
measure it for fit and clearance,
make adjustments with bearings,
selections, whatever we have to do.
Setting piston ring end gaps,
setting all the bearing clearances.
Re-machining the cases for all the features,
main bores and oil pump clearance,
and the spigot bores and all that.
Cylinder heads come here new,
but they still probably get eight hours of work.
Some small re-machining, QC inspection,
air flow testing, everything we go through.
And then they're prepped for assembly.
The case comes into the engine build shop.
The cylinder heads are on
the shelf waiting in the cylinder head department,
and then the engine assembly
shop assembles the engine complete,
goes to the dynamometer, gets a computer controlled
break in program that cycles 'em several times,
and run 'em for an hour, extensive inspection.
When they are done running power testing on the dyno,
they're gonna have an easier life
for the rest of their being than they did in here.
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You can look around this building
and see it's entire history
in photographs all over the building.
I appreciate what's here,
and I go to lengths to keep collecting
new photography of all the projects we do.
'Cause I realize it's an important part of this place.
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The first time I came here to meet with Ed,
first thing he did was take me on a tour of the shop.
And I saw what was going on,
I saw the equipment that was here,
but I saw how people were doing things,
and what they were doing,
and what the process was.
And it wasn't just Ed again,
it was, it was everybody here.
- My name's Larry Ingham,
and I've been here since about 1980.
- Okay, my name is Philippe Javier.
I've been working for Ed Pink for 15 years.
- My name is Craig McCormick,
and I been at Ed Pink's for 18 years.
- Gip Workersham, I've been here at Ed Pink Racing Engines
for almost nine years now.
And, I just feel very blessed to have
made my hobby, my career for the last 40 plus years.
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