Pro Power engines

[dalemcfan]

Is anyone on either of the national tours still running a Pro Power engine? They used to power so many cars on tour but now you rarely see them.

[Highside Hustler25]

Tmac did. Not sure about this year.

[dalemcfan]

I remember Tmac running them in the Sweeteners Plus car a couple years ago. Since he got in Bradsher’s car last year they have run Cornetts.

[ImCryn2]

Tmac did. Not sure about this year.

Tmac switched in the later part of 2019. He was struggling (by his standards)before switching. If I remember correctly, I think he started running Cornett engines? He ran better late that year after switching, but I don't know if that's all he changed.

I believe Heckenast mentioned Pro power in one of his interviews this week.

[Highside Hustler25]

I almost forgot. Shep in his own car.

[TOPSIDE TIMMY 39FAN]

Didnt pierce run pro power at one time or still does?

[NeedforLM$peed]

Moyer jr did buy switched to clements

[PAbigbear]

Seems like Clements and Cornett are the hot thing now. What happened to Durham that everyone and their brother wanted 2 years ago and now are basically irrelevant on the national tours?

[NeedforLM$peed]

I don't remember if it was last year or the year before but someone told me it was a 3-4 month wait for a Clements

[zyoung25]

Pierce had Vic Hill engines this week, I dont know what he had in Arizona. He did run pro power stuff a couple years ago.

There were several in the pit area this week, just not many in touring guys that I can remember.

Feger used them last year

[dirtSLMracing]

Seems like Clements and Cornett are the hot thing now. What happened to Durham that everyone and their brother wanted 2 years ago and now are basically irrelevant on the national tours?

I think Andy was arrested a couple years ago so maybe that hurt his business. Just speculation.

[bleedblue55]

Durham has spent the most of his time recently developing the sprint car 400ci engine for Ford and Tony Stewart. Shepp, T Erb , Shirley and I think Heckenast still running them, may be others.

[HoosierDirtFan]

Dennis Erb Jr. hasn't been with Pro Power for a while. Last Time I talk to him he was using either Vic Hill or Clements engines and that was last year.

[Dlmfan123]

Durham has spent the most of his time recently developing the sprint car 400ci engine for Ford and Tony Stewart. Shepp, Erb Jr., Shirley and I think Heckenast still running them, may be others.He's not working on the sprint car motor anymore

[NeedforLM$peed]

I think Erb is using both Clements and Vic Hill

[bleedblue55]

He's not working on the sprint car motor anymore

Yea I know they are in Stewart's and Schatz's cars. He didn't develop those in a month.

[Dlmfan123]

Yea I know they are in Stewart's and Schatz's cars. He didn't develop those in a month.They have somebody else building them now. Durham isn't invoked anymore

[zyoung25]

They have somebody else building them now. Durham isn't invoked anymore

Fwiw; schatz has Shaver racing engines on his car.

[Morgs153]

This might carry the thread in a different direction but I'm too lazy to start a new one. I watched the WWSO and there were still a bunch of Pro Power cars in the field. That being said I also drifted over to Chili Bowl coverage and seen how many TRD engines are in midgets. I looked at online sources and seen these little fours can fetch $40,000 and up, maybe towards $60k. Wow!

So now I see where TRD is going to try and make their way into sprint car engines, much like Tony Stewart and Ford Racing did in the last year or two. So, once TRD makes it into sprints, and you know they will, how far behind is a dirt late model TRD engine?

Ponder that. Thoughts?

[Mod Runner]

Doesn't Kenny Wallace run a TRD in his dirt modified ? There are Toyotas running in the Late Model Pro Series asphalt racing series. They must be running the Nascar TRD V8.

[NeedforLM$peed]

Speaking of Kenny Wallace. I see he is scheduled to race at the dirt track in Fairbanks Alaska around the end of June.

[BTExpress]

Back to Pro Power, they will be back......racing is a fickle business. Durham had their day at the top of the heap. Cornett has made a comeback after being the forgotten engine for a few years and now it seems half the touring teams have one again.

[Dlmfan123]

Fwiw; schatz has Shaver racing engines on his car.Yeah that's it. I couldn't think of his name. That's who built his motors before he switched to fords

[turnleftandgasit]

Kenny was running very early TRD engines. He had to switch away from them because they used up all of the leftover parts. He posted a video about this explaining that it would be too expensive to have discontinued parts made.

[bleedblue55]

Back to Pro Power, they will be back......racing is a fickle business. Durham had their day at the top of the heap. Cornett has made a comeback after being the forgotten engine for a few years and now it seems half the touring teams have one again.
Monkey see, monkey do. Everyone sees driver XXX running an XXX chassis with an XXX engine and they think that combination will put them over the top. Usually the monkey doesn't have the driving skills of driver XXX nor the support of team XXX and the results rarely change. Whatever the winner has is the hot ticket.

[Andrews42FAN]

Sheldon Haudenchild is running a new TRD this year in ASoC. Ran really strong with it over the weekend in GA and would have had a good finish but spun himself out. The engine game is cyclical as years ago Cornett was all the rage then faded, Custom, Pro Power, Durham, Hill.... etc. They all rise and fall at the whims of the DLM racing community.

[NeedforLM$peed]

I thought the thing with Durham was the rumor of using used parts in new engines but blamed it on a bad batch of parts.

[TOPSIDE TIMMY 39FAN]

I thought the thing with Durham was the rumor of using used parts in new engines but blamed it on a bad batch of parts.

Something to that effect

[gators]

Durham has spent the most of his time recently developing the sprint car 400ci engine for Ford and Tony Stewart. Shepp, T Erb , Shirley and I think Heckenast still running them, may be others.

Terbo is running nothing but Clements. The end of last year he used Steven Roberts Clements motor & fell in love with it

[bleedblue55]

Terbo is running nothing but Clements. The end of last year he used Steven Roberts Clements motor & fell in love with it

Did they consummate the relationship

[Highside Hustler25]

Boom Briggs might still be using Durham.

[Josh Bayko]

Pro Powers seem to go boom an awful lot these days. Fixing that would go a long way.

[Dlmfan123]

Boom Briggs might still be using Durham.Boom runs Clements. Chub had a Durham motors a few years ago not sure if he has changed it up or not

[Mod Runner]

Clements gets another win with RTjr at Bubba raceway.

[stewart fan]

Kenny wallace is running a Mullins chevy,Chevy, believe he had a nascar truck engine in his modified but since they went to spec engines in truck series trd doesn't build them anymore

[crownman25]

Jay dkens as great for a while its like chassis things swap around .like it use to be draime malcuit there are alot diff factors sometimes its what quickly available to drivers......

[Barbecueboy]

Did they consummate the relationship

Was there any open hand smacking involved?

[NeedforLM$peed]

Terbo obviously isnt afraid to. He even hit a minor one time.

[Barbecueboy]

The minor that was sleeping with his girlfriend or is this another time?