Isky created and advertised a “5-cycle” cam, labeling the overlap period in the cam timing as the fifth cycle.

He graciously invited us along on one of his lunches for this story, which is less a bio about him and more about his thoughts on the industry and the people he has worked with for all these years.So somebody said, “Let’s play like we had a big wreck here.” That’s my brother, Luther, in the car and Herman Lamb is down on the ground. Louie Senter and Jack Anders had a speed shop, Anson Automotive, and the two of us and some others were partners with them on that first show.We had a club made up of companies displaying in the show, and it was hard to hold the club together because we didn’t have any dues or money to put into it.When (SEMA) went to paint and all this other stuff and the speed part got smaller, that’s when Steve Lewis got the idea to start up a hardcore show, which is the PRI show.“There’s a lot of expensive stuff on the market, and I wonder if a guy starting out gets confused and spends money on the wrong stuff.The first thing we learned from Winfield was volumetric efficiency.