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Royal Purple Presents $5,500 Donation Check to Lupus Foundation of America

Royal Purple Synthetic Oil presented the Indiana chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America with a $5,500 donation on Monday, June 12. The money was raised in conjunction with the Mazda Road to Indy at the May 11-13 Grand Prix of Indianapolis.

Annual Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes Proceeds Presented

Representatives from PRI and Sunnen traveled to Victory Junction in Randleman, NC, last month to tour the facility and present a check for $42,000 collected through last year’s Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes at the PRI Show.

2016 Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes Tops $40K

Featuring an all-new engine builder—and grand prize race engine—for 2016, the annual Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes raised more than $40,000 for Victory Junction during this year’s PRI Show.

Win a Custom 850HP Chevy LSX 454 Race Engine at PRI

This year’s Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes grand prize is a GM LSX 454 big block racing engine, custom-built by Nick Ferri of Patterson Elite Performance and generating an estimated 850 horsepower and 650 ft./lbs. of torque.

Sunnen’s Engine Charity Sweepstakes to Award a Nick Ferri-Built Racing Engine

Sunnen Products Company and PRI continue a 28-year partnership to present the Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes at PRI 2016, December 8-10 in Indianapolis. Sunnen sponsors the Sweepstakes, which to date has donated over $500,000 to various charities around the country.

Patterson Elite Performance to Build Racing Engine for Sunnen’s Engine Charity Sweepstakes at PRI 2016

Nick Ferri, co-owner of Patterson Elite Performance and builder of engines behind 57 national NHRA Pro Stock victories, has volunteered to create a custom-tuned Mopar 6.4L Gen lll Hemi racing engine for this year’s Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes, to be held at the PRI show in December.

Champion to Sponsor 11th Annual ‘All Stars for Autism’ Road Rally

Champion Brands is an associate sponsor of the 11th Annual “All Stars for Autism” Road Rally presented by Hemmings Motor News. The race takes place over four days and makes a lunch pit stop during the Champion’s 60th celebration on May 6th.

Sunnen Charity Engine Sweepstakes Draws Nearly $60K

In record-breaking fashion, the annual Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes raked in a total of $59,910 for the Victory Junction camp. Each year at the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, a race engine is raffled off for charity.

6 Tax Tips for Charitable Giving

Richard Lipton, founder of Lipton CPA & Associates, says if you make charitable donations and want to claim a tax deduction for your gifts, you must itemize your deductions. He offers the following tips for giving business gifts to charity.

Bosch Aftermarket NA to Contribute $1,000 to Charity for Team Penske Victory at Daytona 500

Bosch Automotive Aftermarket North America has announced it will donate $1,000 to charity each time one of its sponsored teams scores a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win during the 2015 season. Winning teams from Hendrick Motorsports, Team Penske and Joe Gibbs Racing will designate the charities they wish to support.

Sticker Shock – The 392 Magnum Gets Ready for Auction

As you can see in the pictures, we’ve reached a point where we can say the engine is built and ready to install. Or in this case ready to dyno and auction off. We certainly would not have been able to produce such a cool piece without the help of our contributors and Grawmondbecks Competition Engines. The 392 V8 Magnum engine is currently being auctioned off on eBay Motors. The auction ends Dec. 21.

Enerpulse Donates Pulstar Spark Plugs to Support Delancey Street Foundation

Enerpulse Technologies, makers of Pulstar with PlasmaCore spark plugs, recently donated nearly $3,000 worth of spark plugs to the Delancey Street Foundation for its fleet of vehicles in Los Angeles.