Crate Motor Class

[tpoh815]

Alan I went to autoimagery and looked up your car wow! Its very nice. Im pretty sure the bottom end of your 350 looks like mine,I stress the word LOOKS. I understand your point about the crate motors but who wants to spend big money and kiss someones *** to find the rare - right parts. ( the heads that have been left in the parts cleaner too long wink wink!) or the quadrajet that cost more than my intake and carb. Combo is one thing what it really is- is another. The engine is still full of a bunch of rotating parts.To me crate motor or not its all about cubic dollars! I do however give credit when its due and my hats of to your team as the car flies legally.Mike

[THE LEGEND]

Mike,
Everybody cries about cratemotors being soft.
I know for a fact 4 years ago your conbo would be well over a second under. IHRA has dropped the cratemotor indexes and also added horsepower to that combo.
Now if anyone wants to cry maybe it's the GM crate motors. I can't ever remember a MOPAR getting HP increase.
Chip

[Brandon Peterson]

you doing alright chip

[TIM SLOAN]

Originally Posted by the legend

mike,
everybody cries about cratemotors being soft.
I know for a fact 4 years ago your conbo would be well over a second under. Ihra has dropped the cratemotor indexes and also added horsepower to that combo.
Now if anyone wants to cry maybe it's the gm crate motors. I can't ever remember a mopar getting hp increase.
Chip

hi, i dont get on here much, but just saw your post. I guess if you dont
run a mopar you wouldnt know. But they have been hit more than any
crate motor on hp. They have been hit with 25 hp.

[THE LEGEND]

I drove a Mopar once!
Thanks again
Chip

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by tpoh815

Alan I went to autoimagery and looked up your car wow! Its very nice. Im pretty sure the bottom end of your 350 looks like mine,I stress the word LOOKS. I understand your point about the crate motors but who wants to spend big money and kiss someones *** to find the rare - right parts. ( the heads that have been left in the parts cleaner too long wink wink!) or the quadrajet that cost more than my intake and carb. Combo is one thing what it really is- is another. The engine is still full of a bunch of rotating parts.To me crate motor or not its all about cubic dollars! I do however give credit when its due and my hats of to your team as the car flies legally.Mike

The white car is not mine, it belongs to my friend Kevin Cradduck (2853), he owns both cars, and lets me drive the white car as a perk. It really isn't fast, most of the cars in the classes it runs are faster, I consider it to be 3-4 tenths slow. It has an old engine, it needs to be updated. But Kevin's orange car is the main focus, and it is fairly fast. Like I said the white car is a perk, one that will not last forever (it's for sale), that I do not really deserve, but that I am nonetheless eternally grateful for. I am extremely fortunate to work for a truly exceptional friend.

Honestly, only the heads on the white car are really tough to find, only the 441 casting is legal, I'm hunting some castings now. I've got a large container full of carburetors I could build to go on the car legally. The intake is fairly easy to find as well. The heads for the orange car aren't hard to find, but prepare to pay $1500 or more for bare castings.

Something most people do not know about heads is that it is easy to make the heads too big on a stocker. Yeah, there's a lot of talk about acid ported heads, and I'm sure some sets exist, and some of them even run well. But the flip side is that I've seen some illegal stuff, and all they did was make it slow.

[tpoh815]

Alan are you interested in some zz4 heads?? lol!

[Alan Roehrich]

LOL. I really have a lot more to worry about with the orange car, there's some heavy hitters coming out with some bad stuff down here in Division 2. I need a tenth or two for the orange car at least just to keep up. And the orange car is the one that matters.

I don't think Travis or Wesley would be real forgiving about finding ZZ4 heads on the white car, I can hear Wesley now, (Wesley:"Alan, you going to run Comp with that car this weekend, or are you and Kevin going to take a year or two off?"). No telling what Travis would say, but I bet he wouldn't smile at me anymore. Those 441 heads are hard enough to find that it might be necessary to swap to 186 heads and go 300/350, and we don't really want to do that.

[Brandon Peterson]

yall get a Wally for winning class

[Brandon Peterson]

we get a plaque that my son made at daycare....lol