Crate Motor Class

[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.