AERA TECH CENTER Toll-free Tech Hotline 888-324-2372 As a current AERA member, you have free access to three ASE-certified Master Machinists. Please have your membership number ready for verification. If you prefer pen and paper, just write down your inquiry and fax it (toll-free) to 888-329-2372 or send us an email at tech@aera.org. TECH SUPPORT HOURS: 7:00 am - 6:00 pm CST, Monday-Friday Dave Hagen Dave Hagen, our Senior Technician, has over 32 years of experience in our industry. An ASE-certified Master Machinist, Dave specialized in cylinder head work and complete engine assembly for the first 17 years of his career. Steve Fox Steve Fox has over 16 years experience in the engine building industry with eight of those years spent working in the machine shop. Steve is an ASE-certified Master Machinist, as well as a longtime member of the drag racing circuit. Mike Caruso Mike Caruso (driving a desk now) brings over 35 years of rebuilding and high performance experience to AERA. An ASE-certified Master Machinist, Mike came to us from FEL-PRO's High Performance R&D and Tech Line, where he worked for 11 years. E-mail: Dave@aera.org E-mail: Steve@aera.org E-mail: Mike@aera.org ENGINE PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE AERA’s new quarterly publication Engine Professional (EP) replaces monthly ShopTalk and offers readers highly technical and application driven articles with full-color graphics. Past issues of SHOPTALK are available for online viewing or download (PDF format). Simply click on the button below. TECH & SKILLS CONFERENCES The AERA Board of Directors has replaced the annual AERA trade show with more intimate regional conferences in order to provide technical presentations and unique shop skills instruction to all who attend. Everyone in business owes it to themselves and their business to gain knowledge and network with other people who are in the same industry as they are. FAILURE ANALYSIS BOOKLETS Three booklets are currently available! Features a collection of pictures from real-life failures and the damage done to new or used engine components. Compiled by the AERA Tech Support Department, these booklets explain engine part failures in an easy-to-understand format with many pictures. A.E.R.AID In order to better deliver up-to-date information on a timely basis, AERA has established A.E.R.Aid. Roughly three times per year, members will receive the A.E.R.Aid CD in their monthly mailing. In addition to the latest PRO-SIS update, the A.E.R.Aid CD will also contain PRO-SIS (both Spanish and English trial versions), a trial version of AERA SMS (AERA Shop Management Solutions software), AERA manuals and the AERA promotional video. PRO-SIS PRO-SIS contains over 33,000 casting numbers, engine specifications for over 4,300 different engines, and over 2,500 technical bulletins since January 1968. Program display's include photos and diagrams including timing mark alignments, piston to rod orientation, and cylinder head torque sequences. The data is constantly being updated so that your machine shop can have the most up to date information possible. TORQUE SPECIFICATIONS Download PRO-SIS Torque Specifications by clicking on the link above. (PDF format, 124 pages)