Folks Of Interest RIP Bruce Crower

Cool old decal, but why does it show a lawn mower?

 

That’s not a lawnmower you goofball!, it’s an FED.


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No, I'm sure it's a lawn mower!



(Humour)

 

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Sorry to hear this,,,He passed on my birthday.
Top quality parts! One of the best cams I have ever owned,,,it’s still in my 440!
I had never seen a cam that was completely machined all the way down the core between the lobes. Solid lift,,,.609-.620,,,that was really radical on the streets back in the mid 80’s
Seems like he used to do a tech article in the back pages of Hot Rod back in the day.
Even though I was just a young teenager then,,,back in the 70’s,,, I knew he was on top of his game.

Tommy

 

I used to sell cams and cam cores to Crower back in the 80's. Bruce was usually around the shop and I got a chance to meet him. At that particularly time he was working on gas mileage improvements using a 70's Chevy pickup as his test bed. He had flow meters in the fuel system that could read instant mileage quite well. As I recall from a test drive he let me take it got high 20's at steady state around 60 mph. Impressive at the time but it had some other driveabilty issues. Nothing much came of it but he was one of the most inventive guys I ever met. RIP Bruce.

 

That's a front engine slingshot dragster

 

God Bless Bruce Crower and all his family.

 

A lawn mower?

 

And you know Bruce probably had the hottest lawnmower in the neighborhood.

 

The engine in my avatar has Crower crank, cam & lifters, when I started to run B/A he sent me one cam to try, it went from lobe to lobe to lobe without a break, we ran it and gave him the data and he made me send it back before i'd get the new one (it looked like anormal cam with individual lobes). It was beautiful, I'd have it on my coffee table to display.
He was a genuine guy and whenever I bought something from him I knew he was trying to get me what we actually needed and not just making a sale. I still have that engine, I dumped the clutch at 8500rpm and that crank is still pristine.

 

Bruce once owned this beautifully restored Jet Black '57 Chrysler 300 C Coupe:

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Seen at SEMA last week:

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