Crate Motor Class

[Chris1529]

now there you went and did it Brandon.

[Bruce Noland]

Brandon,
Are you taking meal breaks?

[Brandon Peterson]

haha i know......its just a question

[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

[CrateCamaro]

Originally Posted by Tod Lane

Do you suppose a casual fan knows the difference between a 245 horse 350 and a 255 horse motor? Do you suppose pure and extinct is better than contaminated and viable?
Personally, I kind of like the idea of new combinations revitalizing the class with new blood. An LS6 454 in a second gen Camaro, a Crate 302 Ford in an T-bird. Why not? Stock suspensions, stock interiors, crate motors subjected to the same scrutiny as other stock combinations... And it could help with the cost of building a class car.

Finally someone who makes sense. Thanks Tod. U NHRA guys have no idea what a crate motor stocker is anyways. You Think its a motor that comes from GM that u plop in for 3500 bucks and go racing...WRONG. We go looking for castings and then build a bottom, run the same cams u guys run. WOW...we get to run any intake manifold that will fit under the hood. Big deal. If you had a 69 Camaro and say you blew up the engine way back in 76...it was a 300hp engine and it was totally destroyed. Now GM offers an engine that will run on unleaded, and make 300hp...would you not buy it for a replacement instead of buying proper casting for mega bucks?? Thats what the class basically is. Boys...we are rated at huge HP numbers and race really heavy....and don't tell me its fun to pull old heads off of rusty motors out in the woods that are rusted right into the earth. It took me and a friend 2 days to get a set of 041 heads off of a smashed impala...to find out that they were junk. Lots of fun.

[CrateCamaro]

Originally Posted by Lyn Smith

Crate motor racers. Are you ready to get your runner volumes checked?

Unfortunatly us "crate motor" guys will be way more legal than you stocker guys. Thats the cool thing...I run a vortec 330hp combo. The heads flow just as good as a ported Camel back. But we all know all you stocker guys don't have ported heads right? :

[CrateCamaro]

There is over 150 pages of replies and really dont care or have the time to look at every one to see how bad the class is being put down. NHRA stocker guys should wake up and really have a look at the class...ITS STOCK BOYS....same everything except for the intake rule. And we get a 750cfm carb for small blocks and 850cfm for big blocks. Theres nothing SPEC about the motor so whoever said that is really lost. My crate motor runs a 300hp stocker cam with .400 lift. Everything is the same....pistons, rods, crank, ect. Close the hood and they all sound the same...who cares. Im pisd off because im selling my 330hp crate and im buying a 295hp stocker motor just to come race some NHRA races. Guess I should have waited.

[Bruce Noland]

I think most of us understand the Crate Motor concept.

The bottom line is this. We race what we build or buy. Build or buy a Stocker if you want to run nhra Stock classes!

[Brandon Peterson]

Bruce, i took a few breaks for meals yesterday...the biggest break was to watch my Panthers get murdered.....what a horrible game...