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@@ragingdragonfn it can be done, but it’ll take a lot more than a simple rejet

@@bluecollarperformance1331 ok

@@ragingdragonfn getting very close to having one. I haven’t shown the car this is in yet.

@@bluecollarperformance1331 sweet

@@bluecollarperformance1331 sweet

@@sunshinez-2017 North Central Arkansas speedway in Flippin AR

@@bluecollarperformance1331 that’s a little bit out Thanks 🙏

@@sunshinez-2017 no problem. They run a good program over there if you ever get itchy feet

@@ogles824 it seems like the next logical step to me.

@@jasonbaxter5502 they do a good job of prepping the track, so it has a lot of bite.

@@jasonbaxter5502 I think what you’re seeing is body roll when it bites from the slide around the corner

That car was good to me. I decided to build something else, so a friend has that car now, but he’ll do it justice and I’ll get to make content on it.

@@merylpelosi8485 I’m with you on that, lol. I had a 5.3 just randomly explode the oil pump in my pinto.

@@21rc-37 north central Arkansas speedway in Flippin Arkansas

@@paulmoss7940 the LS platform as a whole was a game changer in my opinion

@@ronaldlingle8766 I wouldn’t rule it out. We have a heck of a good time.

@@n5xqj you can’t beat the class and style of those old cars

@@tornadermotorsports8534 I think that’s the future of budget racing

@@baims8367 I’ve always thought an open class would be awesome

@@jeffparker4840 it was incredible how loud it was in person. I’ll be revisiting this before too long. I have something extremely cool in the works.

@@bheardnow6410 I’ll be revisiting this before long. I’ve got something extremely cool in the works

@@regdor8187 I hadn’t thought about it like that, but that sounds like an excellent way to regulate it.

@@johnjessup1457 I’d be right in the middle of that 😁

@@approachingtarget.4503 I get what you’re saying, but I’m not talking about crate motors, im talking about junkyard notwithstanding a cam and valve springs. Just to a $1000 claim rule on the long block and it should pretty well police itself

@@sarahhill9395 thank you. I had an engine eat one of those screws once. That made a believer out of me.

@@bluecollarperformance1331 a friend of mine has a yellow mustang and has like a 460 sbf dart engine, just made a few passes with it and it was a brand new engine and it was destroyed in a matter of seconds after it ate a carb base plate screw,,, nothing was salvageable from that engine,,, I’ve been lucky, I have a brand new engine and I figured I would run a spacer after hearing all these horror stories…

@@sarahhill9395 I think that’s a wise move

@@NakedDave100 dude, I’m not going to lie, I don’t normally check notifications this late, but I saw your username and had to. As far as the crate motors, I think they should be left out unless you want to open the door for 1000ho gm crate motors. I think a 5.4 should be allowed just like the 5.3.

How cool would it be to see all junk yard cam only ls, coyote and hemisphere out there....I so badly want to develop a class like that

Ugh...hemi....autocorrect

6.o, 5.7 hemi, 5.0 coyote..

@@MrRatfink56 thank you, I’ve been playing with different ways of editing to see what works the best. Eventually I’ll get it figured out.

@@pisstoffcat5136 I’d be right in the middle of that

@@MississippiDan1 I agree, but I’d limit it to stock ecu so there wouldn’t be any trickery with G meters and traction control

@@bluecollarperformance1331 that's some forward thinking and good... Heck yeah

@@bluecollarperformance1331no need for ecu

First 2 seasons were carb'd and distributor combinations on a 6.0. This year I got a complete junkyard 6.0 and kept it efi....stock intake, injectors...cam, springs and pistons only mods.431whp 443 ft lbs

@@LSX427 that’s the thing, you can do something like that and keep up with guys with high dollar engines. It puts racing at a competitive level back with reach for the average blue collar guy

@bluecollarperformance1331 yup. Couldn't agree more. Motors are plentiful in wrecking yards. Literally put a cam and valve springs in them and it's a reliable 7000 rpm race motor. 4.8 will make 375hp....5.3 425-475hp and 6.0 500+.....stock block, crank, rods, rings,bearings,oil pump, rocker arms, heads, intake manifold, injectors, coils, plug wires, starter, water pump, timing chain and gears, valve covers....seriously there is no bigger bang for the buck. The HUGE benefit is there is no machine shops involved. My mods on my motor....+4cc dome pisons.( drop in, no bore) 11-1 compression w 68cc head. Pump 92 octane. 323-236 howards cam, BTR valve springs, holley 92mm throttle body....(only because originally dbw) and a ct525 oil pan I got a smoking deal on...when it pops...150k mile long blocks are available everywhere for a couple grand. A weekends work and back at the track. People need to wake up and step out of the dark ages.

232-236 cam

Unfortunately it's not about balls enough to go fast as anymore, it's spending stupid money on shocks and tools to drag race off the turns of boring slick tracks.

@@jrwarner5342 the car and the family are both inspirational if you ask me.

@@outfitsgarage88 Flippin Arkansas. Just a few miles up the road from Cotter Arkansas, which is known as the trout fishing capitol of the world.

@@bluecollarperformance1331 oh ok. we race at Batesville and Harrisburg at times when we have the car going. Will you be back to Sikeston for NNN this year

@@outfitsgarage88 I will, I’m recovering from shoulder surgery, and on July 19 I’m going in for a double hernia repair, so I’m not sure which one of my cars (or trucks) I’ll be bringing, but I’ll be there for sure. I’ve got one car that I haven’t shown on the channel that is the one I’m hoping to bring. I really just depends on my physical limitations as to whether it’ll be done in time or not.

@bluecollarperformance1331 I have to do a little work on my ol 75 C10 to get it up and going again. Hopefully lol

@@outfitsgarage88 I met quite a few people there last year that I really enjoyed. I’m looking forward to coming back this year.

@@michaelharrison6978 thank you sir. I’m kind of the same way. One of the few childhood memories that I have is watching my dad race dirt cars and thinking “I’m gonna do that some day” I ended up doing it pretty effectively for a couple of years, and I raced outlaw dirt karts for a few years. Somehow I always end up back to drag racing, but there is a deep seated love for dirt with its roots way down in my soul.

​@@bluecollarperformance1331 that 56 looked bad going around that track

@@AEyerly he’s not afraid to send it

I had to do something, those ford small blocks split in half at less than what the street tune up is in that car. I guess I should’ve checked with you before I spent my time, and my money to build my car the way I wanted. 😁

It seems like it always becomes a contest to see who can spend their way to the front. I’m all about the budget options. The family in this video proves that grass roots racing is still possible, although I think the next step is allowing the best engine GM ever created. With a junkyard motor and a simple cam swap you can be competitive.

Yeah, that odd ball 6.0 with iron 317’s, and the extended flange on the crank. I think this car is a good example of why the should allow them. For $1k you can have an engine you can compete with, and it obviously didn’t just run all over the 23 degree motors

@HeadFlowInc yes. That was my program for the last 2 years. Cast iron headed 6.0. I had the heads tested for flow...247cfm at 550 lift not too bad. At that time I was running the holley split single plane manifold and the gm front distributor and fuel pump drive. This year I went to a more traditional LS set up. L96 with the square port aluminum heads and EFI. Stock truck intake...but using Holley terminator electronics. Just easier to tune...and allows me to get rid of all my mechanical gauges.

Pretty much there what a 602 crate engine is Vortec heads

Thank you very much. We’re still kind of living in the past here in north central Arkansas, and honestly I wouldn’t want it any other way

@@bluecollarperformance1331 timecapsles in time and living history is something I like, keeping alive to a degree they way it was is the way it is based on those books on old hot rods and performace cars in the hey day, and even into the 1990's you could still find some of it that were 1950's and 60's leftovers, even eldora while it had the offices in the middle in the 1990's it didn't have all the food trucks the suites and inner fence or jumbotron like today, I love it today as it is its like a mini fair, but it still felt like a local track in the mid 90's first times I went there and it was still the worlds fastest highbanked clay ovel before florida took that record in barbervill, beside teh old style race cars look way neater then the boxes of the 70's onward, but its always been a money game for most, it was just way cheaper back in the day, and as for weeklies few run them anymore, though up till just after the pandemic it was still somewhat common, now for most its several specials only, even kokomo and thats one of the best dirt tracks in indiana some will say, and the two times I went there for winged sprint racing it did not disappoint and lots of wrecks including the great kyle larson, he flipped but was ok messed up his car pretty bad though and was the day before his first indy 500 practice this year, while he was qualifying though I stopped by and was talking with his wife katline and watching his kids play, and hung out with his brother in law brad sweet, thats the thing in dirt even the big stars dont have the untouchable feeling, unlike nascar indycar, 24 hour racing or formula 1 where you cant get close, the dirt and usac you can get right up and in the pits and watch with the families of the drivers even offer to pitch in a little and twice got to help push silvercrown cars up to the grid or roll them so the atv they had or push truck could get to them, my small small part of being part of it once you know the drivers and teams especially when they are from ones area, such as in winged racing zeb wise, and silver crown derek bischak or having been the same places talk about how fun the lakes up there are. but with track closures its harder and harder to find a place to go a few times for the shows you like to see even this year we lost gas city and southbend raceway they problably wont reopen but you never know.

@@manga12 that’s why I love that 56 the way I do. I represents hope for the future of grassroots motorsports to me. Like you said, money ruins it most of the time, and I’m excited to see a track with a steadily increasing car count.

@@bluecollarperformance1331 yea any increse in car count is good even if there are fewer people in the stands, I mean its still gets crowds but they arn't what they used to be with compeating forms of entertainment but there is still an audiance that likes speed and competition just look at e racing that has a good following, and rc racing is in some circles a big thing, I mean they even got a competition at the chilli bowl for it I kid you not.

@@manga12 I’m mostly into drag racing these days, and they even have R/C drag shootouts. Sometimes for big money.

They all really struck me as good people. Seeing the family walk down the front stretch after the win clapping was awesome.

I’ll definitely have to make it back over there. I had a ball and couldn’t have been made to feel more welcome by the staff and racers.

Thank you. I climbed through the window of a dirt car for the first time at 14, and haven’t been the same since.

It was hands down the coolest car on the property, and he would send it too.