Approval of Super Stock Class Aftermarket Cylinder Heads

[SpeierRacing]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

I dyno a good bit with Gale Powley down in Charlotte. He is good friends with the previous owner/manger of Victory Valves. Victory's shop is nearby. He was telling Gale that the new owners walked over to the area where they made the valves that Gale has been using. What's this? They explained the NHRA guys use them in their cars. The corporate guys says "Well not very many of them, its a very small market."They will have to use the titanium ones from now on like all the other racers do!" LOL . With a snap of the finger, another part we rely on is eliminated.
Most of these big corporations are only interested in mass markets.
Houston....we have a problem..

Back from a 7 day time out, must have been something I said. lol

It's crazy that no one has stainless valves right now. Like no one.. The Ferrea hollow stem stainless also isn't available and right at $64 each now. Crazy times right now.

[Alan Roehrich]

The "covid" fraud/scandal wrecked the supply chain. It put a ton of businesses out, never to return. It allowed the "private equity" companies to buy more companies. It changed the industry that supplies our sport. Forever. It also changed the raw materials industry, probably forever. There are alloys, steel, stainless, and aluminum, that are in extreme short supply. Almost everything in your modern race engine is made from a raw material that not only more than doubled in price, but now must be ordered 6-18 months ahead of the time it is needed, paid for in advance, and then prayed for.



Understand, the most popular and highest demand products, with the best profit margin are gong to be made. Everything else is on the back burner, and gets the scraps, in both raw material, and manufacturing time. We are a niche market, small numbers, and low volume, especially those racing older stuff, and even more for those racing rare and oddball stuff. And unless there is a dramatic change in fortune for the Republic, and the economy, it will never be the way it was, or even get close. Never.