James Joseph Feuling

James J. Feuling (March 11, 1945 – December 4, 2002) was a land speed record holder, member of the 200 and clubs, inventor, author, publisher, philosopher, pilot, motorcycle and automobile designer/builder/racer and leading-edge researcher/developer in the field of engine design and fluid dynamics.

Biography

Jim founded Feuling Engineering - later to become Feuling R&D/Advanced Technologies - in 1974. The first shop was located in El Cajon, Ca.

His experience with high-efficiency engines began at an early age. He started riding motorcycles at age 5 and flying aircraft at age 11. He tuned and raced his own motorcycles and won the California State TT Championship at 16. He graduated from high school in Honolulu, Hawaii, attended Southwestern College and the University of the Seven Seas. Jim served in the US Army Special Forces during the early years of the Vietnam war; his specialties were Demolition and Medical. He subsequently began building and racing sports cars and off-road cars. Jim scored many off-road racing victories. He was awarded the prestigious SCORE "Mechanic of the Year" trophy in 1976. His racing engines, high-performance components and inventions have been used worldwide, from Daytona to Monaco, from off-road racing to Formula One Grand Prix racing and the Indy 500. Jim's leading edge development work includes his company's R&D contracts with Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Ford, Chrysler, Nissan, John Deere, Harley-Davidson and aircraft companies such as Cessna, Mooney and Quickie.

Around 1980 Feuling Engineering moved to the Chino Airport in Southern California. In addition to racing efforts, the Chino Shop also developed the engine for the American Honda high-mileage streamliner, capable of 500 MPG @ , and developed the engine for the 2-place Q-2 aircraft, rated the world¹s most efficient. It was out of this shop that Jim and his shop foreman Gary Griggs co-invented the "Pulse-Cam", a revolutionary development at the time. With the Pulse-Cam carburated engines achieved Fuel Efficiency performance never before possible. The advent of fuel injection in production automobiles subsequently made the Pulse-Cam obsolete. However the knowledge gained during development and testing of the Pulse-Cam paved the way for many of the revolutionary Combustion Chamber designs Jim later developed and Patented. The Chino Team led by Feuling was also involved in the 1982 Indy 500. They built the 355 C.I. normally aspirated engine for the car driven by Dennis Firestone that year. The car set a long standing qualifying speed record as the fastest Chevrolet Stock-Block powered car in history. The Chino Shop also did all of the fabrication and Dynomometer Testing of prototype Anti-Reversionary exhaust headers for Cyclone Headers, who had licensed Jim's Patent at the time. Jim and his Chino shop employees were members and regular patrons of the Chino Airport V.F.W. Hall.

In 1988 he received the "Outstanding Technical Achievement Award" from the National Engineering Societies for his "clean sheet" design, development and manufacture of the 2.0L Oldsmobile "BE" Quad-4 racing engine used in the Oldsmobile Aerotech Research Vehicle (267.339 mph International Record, driven by A. J. Foyt). His radical design for the Oldsmobile BE 4-cylinder engine developed the highest specific power output of any automotive engine in history (over from 121 cubic inches).

Later in his career his internationally recognized products include the 4-valve cylinder head conversion for Harley-Davidson® Evolution motorcycles, his patented aluminum CENTERFIRE® cylinder heads for Chevrolet 454 and Ford 460 truck engines, the all new 'Fast-Burn' MAXFLOW® cylinder head kits, SuperPump and HP+ lifters for the Harley-Davidson Twin Cam engines and the awesome W3 Motorcycle. Jim was a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American Chemical Society, the International Society for Optical Engineering and a Senior Member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He was elected a Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Engineering (IAE).He holds numerous international land speed records and was a member of the prestigious 300 MPH Chapter of the "Bonneville 200 MPH Club". The Feuling name has been closely associated with ultra-high efficiency, small-displacement engines, but he and his staff have years of experience with engines and powertrains of all sizes, from motorcycles to Indianapolis racing engines to hard-working big-rig diesels. [[Image:feulingliner.jpg|frame|right|

]] Jim was a consultant to a number of educational institutions. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the San Diego Automotive Museumand has served as a "Distinguished Speaker" in the SAE Industrial Lectureship Program. He was a very popular speaker and made numerous presentations to SAE, ASME, IMA and SME. He was a featured speaker at the Superflow Advanced Engine Technology Conference on four different occasions; beginning with the 1990 Superflow Advanced Engine Technology Conference on the topic of "Overlap Phenomenon in the Four-Stroke-Cycle Engine," again at the 1991 conference, where his subject was "High Efficiency Sound Attenuation for Internal Combustion Engines." He addressed the 1995 conference on the topic of "Mechanical Octanes" and the 1997 conference on his "ULEV High Performance Engine/Vehicle." He was listed in the Marquis and Strathmore's Who's Who Publications under Science and Engineering, Business Executives and Technology. Jim was involved in numerous [...]-edge projects including his radical W3 Motorcycle, a "detonation chamber" engine design, EZEV/zero emissions equivalent vehicles, electronic aerodynamics and his awesome world record setting Bonneville Streamliner.