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	<title>AERA Engine Builders Association</title>
	<link>http://www.aera.org</link>
	<description>The leading technical association for engine rebuilders and remanufacturers since 1922</description>
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		<title>2012 Tech &amp; Skills Conferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These one-day conferences are designed to bring the technical portion of an AERA convention to your region of the country, saving you long travel times and expenses.
Why attend?
Everyone owes it to themselves and their business to gain knowledge and network with other people within the same industry. AERA understands that traveling to national trade shows to gain this knowledge and networking opportunities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/conferences-events/2012-tech-skills-conferences/</link>
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		<title>Display at the 2012 Tech &amp; Skills Conferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too often at large national trade shows, many of your customers can’t find the time to meet with you or they were not able to attend. AERA understands that traveling to national trade shows to gain knowledge and network can be very expensive. Therefore, your association has decided to help by teaming up with a regional host to offer these opportunities in different parts of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/conferences-events/display-at-the-2012-tech-skills-conferences/</link>
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		<title>Performance Engine Valve Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief discussion of materials and designs
By Mike Mavrigian
Intake and exhaust valves are available today in a staggering range of choices. In this article, we attempt to clarify and explain the differences, in terms of materials, their performance aspects, an overview of valve coatings and to provide a broad reference in terms of valve selection.
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Stellite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/performance-engine-valve-technology/</link>
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		<title>Spin it up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final frontier in engine testing
By Ray T. Bohacz
Some of the best competition valve train specialists to emerge in the past thirty years owes much of its supremacy to extensive developing and testing of its competition parts. The test machine is a SpinTron. Parts tested are principally roller tappets and rocker arms.
“Ten or twelve years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/spin-it-up/</link>
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		<title>Copper Head Gaskets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ryan Hunter
Given the choices, why would one use a copper head gasket? Let’s dig into it because there are applications (perhaps more than you think) for which copper head gaskets are the best choice. To be sure, copper has been around for a while and with good reason. Let’s walk through some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/copper-head-gaskets/</link>
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		<title>Conventional Stroke Honing and Diamond Sizing in One Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sanjai Keshavan
Engine builders and rebuilders, especially in low and medium volume flexible production environment, strive to at least match (or surpass) the OEM surface finish and size specifications when it comes to honing bores of various engine components such as cylinder block, liners, connecting rod, cam bore, crank bore, etc.
Given the higher volumes, OEM’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/conventional-stroke-honing-and-diamond-sizing-in-one-machine/</link>
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		<title>Cryogenics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Roger Schiradelly and Rick Diekman
The use of extremely low temperatures (cryogenic temperatures, which scientists define as below -244°F.) to boost the performance and service life of critical components is now commonplace in the racing industry and is becoming more and more prevalent in the manufacture of high quality components. What was once considered by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/cryogenics/</link>
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		<title>Increased Airflow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big droplets of fuel cost you power
By Keith Wilson
From the Editor: The internal aerodynamics of a four cycle engine intake tract are thought to be understood by many people. In reality, very few in the world understand it completely. Keith Wilson has proven himself as one who does understand. What follows is information from the man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/increased-airflow/</link>
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		<title>New Tool to Find Correct Cam Lobe Centerline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By LaVern Schumann, Jr.
Determining the proper centerline of a camshaft lobe to the existing centerline of the engine block lifter bore has never been easier when using a new tool developed by Schumann Sales and Service.
Cam manufacturers and engine builders all recognize the fact that the centerline of the cam lobe and the centerline of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/new-tool-to-find-correct-cam-lobe-centerline/</link>
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		<title>Competition Connecting Rods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[24 things you need to know
By Sam Logan
Nothing undermines the legitimacy of a connecting rod maker more than a deficient batch of rods. They agonize constantly about heat treatments, high revs, heavy pistons, heavy pins, the number of race laps between rebuilds, but probably most of all whether or not nitrous is being sprayed. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aera.org/engine-professional/competition-connecting-rods/</link>
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