Following weekend meetings with Bob Fox and his team at Charlotte, NC, Moore Good Ink is pleased to announce that Diamond Pistons, Trend Performance, and Spintron have joined the growing ranks of the Moore Good Ink ad agency.

In recent years, Diamond has enjoyed a dramatic rise in piston production, capitalizing on their reputation for quality and on their remarkable successes in the high profile, tough racing markets.  In 2007, Jeg Coughlin won the NHRA Pro Stock championship with Diamond pistons, and in the preceding four years with KB Racing, Greg Anderson, and Jason Line, Diamond was the piston of choice.  Trend pushrods and wrist pins are the items of choice for NASCAR championship winners Hendrick Motorsport and Joe Gibbs Racing. Following weekend meetings with Bob Fox and his team at Charlotte, NC, Moore Good Ink is pleased to announce that Diamond Pistons, Trend Performance, and Spintron have joined the growing ranks of the Moore Good Ink ad agency.

In recent years, Diamond has enjoyed a dramatic rise in piston production, capitalizing on their reputation for quality and on their remarkable successes in the high profile, tough racing markets.  In 2007, Jeg Coughlin won the NHRA Pro Stock championship with Diamond pistons, and in the preceding four years with KB Racing, Greg Anderson, and Jason Line, Diamond was the piston of choice.  Trend pushrods and wrist pins are the items of choice for NASCAR championship winners Hendrick Motorsport and Joe Gibbs Racing.

Bob Fox is a singular character.  He is objective and thorough and has a rare knack of finding good people and making the best of their talents.  Though largely unknown among thousands of enthusiasts and racers, Fox is much respected by his industry contemporaries.

From Michigan, a modest man now 52 year old, Fox left school at 18 and worked for his father and his brother in their family storm-door business.  When he should have been inside school studying, he was outside school racing cars.  At 21, he engaged his passion, competing in stock cars on asphalt for the next eight years with ARCA in their Late-model series.

In 1983, he took employment at Diamond, the automotive piston maker for a couple of years.  Then, pursuing an entrepreneurial desire, he formed his own storm-window company, Trend Products. In ‘88, Fox introduced an innovative one-piece pushrod under the trade name Trend Performance and also manufactured it under a variety of prestigious private labels.  Later, wrist pins and lifters were introduced to Trend Performance’s repertoire.

In the nineties, Bob Fox pioneered the one-piece chrome molybdenum pushrod that permitted V8 engines to rev higher.  During its development, he and his team created the Spintron—a remarkable testing device that operates between 500 and 20,000 rpm.  It identifies and records the crucial characteristics of the valve train: valve bounce, spring harmonics, pushrod deflection, and so on.
 
“We prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance,” commented Fox.  “Without the Spintron, how could we have explored the mysteries of the drive-train at 10,000 rpm and made a better pushrod?”

By 2000, Fox had purchased Diamond Pistons. Two years ago, his Trend team began utilizing new cutting-edge coatings and materials.  These discoveries have proved invaluable to the longevity of wrist pins, valve lifters, pushrods, and pistons.