Speakers Announced for PRI’s 2019 Education Program
Seminars scheduled for this year’s Trade Show in downtown Indianapolis will cover sales & marketing, business operations, international trade, opportunities in racing, sanctions & tracks, and technical education.
Building an ASCS Sprint Car Engine
Salina Engine’s primary focus is on racing engines, with its main market being sprint car engines for various sanctioning bodies.
Salina Engine
Are you one of America’s Best Engine Shops? If so, see how you might stack up against Salina Engine located in Salina, KS. They have entered the Race category.
Video: Engine of the Week – 540 cid Vortech Top Sportsman Engine
Our Engine of the Month for June was this Oakley Motorsports’ 540 cid Vortech Blower Top Sportsman engine capable of more than 2,500 horsepower!
540 cid Vortech Blower Top Sportsman Engine
Oakley Motorsports sponsors the Top Sportsman / Top Dragster classes for Division 3 in NHRA. The shop is well-known for building nitrous engines in those classes, however, as centrifugal blowers have been getting more and more popular, shop owner Phillip Oakley knew he’d have to try his hand at one of those engine builds. The result is this 540 cid Vortech Blower Top Sportsman engine. Find out the details of this very powerful engine build!
Racing Shark Motorsports Expands with New Website
Racing Shark Motorsports, the manufacturer of R.S.M. Power Additives, has announced it is expanding distribution to the entire continental United States with the launch of a new website.
Sensory Overload
The same way these races can overwhelm your senses, here at Engine Builder, we too are delivering content for all five senses! Well, maybe with the exception of taste.
Patterson Elite Performance to Campaign 40th Anniversary COPO Camaro
To celebrate the 40th Anniversary milestone, the company, now Patterson Elite Performance, is debuting a 2019 COPO Camaro this spring.
ASCS 360 Sprint Car Engine
Adam Cofer and the folks at Salina Engine focus on race engine builds, specifically engines like this ASCS 360 Sprint Car engine. The intent of this build was to attempt to curb the cost of 360 Sprint Car engines while still delivering a very competitive package. Find out how this engine came together and how it does on the track!
Finding Good Employees
There are very few problems in business today that transcend industry quite like finding good employees. It’s an issue at any office, in any industry, all over the country and even the world. That being said, there are few industries which have struggled to find good employees the way the engine building/rebuilding industry has.
Top Alcohol Engines
When sportsman drag racer Dean Dubbin couldn’t find protective awnings that met his race team’s needs, he created his own. Similarly, when he needed engines for his Top Alcohol dragster, he turned to a source he could trust – himself.
4.9˝ Billet Hemi Big Dawg Engine
Noonan Race Engineering’s 4.9˝ Billet Hemi Big Dawg engine starts out as an 815 lb. chunk of solid aluminum. From there, it gets machined into a piece of masterful engineering fit for drag racing applications. Find out how this beast of an engine comes to fruition!
Trend Performance Expands into Valvetrain with X2
Race Winning Brands, Inc. acquired the assets of X2 Valvetrain from Xceldyne, expanding its catalog of high performance valvetrain components. X2 will become a part of its Trend Performance division.
Lincoln Electric Hosts Motorsports Welding Seminar
Lincoln Electric hosted its annual Advanced Motorsports Welding Seminar in Cleveland where representatives from NASCAR, IndyCar, the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and off-road racing gathered to learn about the latest in motorsports welding techniques and procedures.
Big Block Chevy Nitrous Engine
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, TRE Racing Engines survived a shop fire three years ago, and is now back to building top-notch drag racing engines like this big block Chevy nitrous engine for X275 drag radial racing. Click to find out what the shop went through to survive disaster, and how this engine came together.
Dayco Releases New Supercharger Belt and Sponsors Don Schumacher Racing
Dayco Products, LLC has announced its new supercharger belt specifically engineered for Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, as well as a new partnership with Don Schumacher Racing.
E3 and Don Schumacher Racing Renew Multi-Year Partnership
E3 Spark Plugs signed on as a sponsor initially with Don Schumacher Racing in 2016. The new contract has E3 and Don Schumacher Racing partnered for another three years.
Don’t Count Out The Classic Cruisers as Customers
People’s interests go in cycles. Right now the modern muscle cars and their fantastic engines are riding a screaming rocket to the stratosphere, with no end in sight. I am fascinated and admire the modern muscle. Being an NHRA tech official at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, IL, I get to see many of them
Turbo Engine Technology Makes Sport Compacts Relevant
It’s been almost 20 years since the first of the many “Fast and Furious” films entered the public eye, leading to a renaissance for the sport compact car and engine market. That market has ebbed and flowed in the years since, but thanks to a resurgence of smaller displacement engines and turbocharging becoming mainstream today,
Houston Raceway Park Now Powered by Pennzoil
Houston Raceway Park, the iconic drag strip located in the Houston suburb of Baytown, welcomes Pennzoil through a new multi-year relationship that changes the name of the 30-year-old facility to Houston Raceway Park powered by Pennzoil.
