[riskybrisky5]

Mini 27 you can buy a good aluminum engine for between 10,000.00 and 20,000.00. Nice part about aluminum is you can rapair the block and resleave them. I think the steal motor costs more in the long run IMHO. Tommy Busch rebuilds my motors because I can't afford to go to a motor builder. You can ask him I ran two complete seasons on my motor before a rebuild. All I did is changed the oil and filter every two races and adjusted the valves every four races. I did change the valve springs one time in that span. The motor probably had around 75 shows on it. But we do not run big race tracks we try to stay on 1/4 mile tracks. It goes back to being smart about choosing where you race at to survive on a low budget. I am serious keep your eyes open there are some really good buys on stuff right now. At the end of the season I think even better buys.

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I dont know if he still wants to sell it but Cam Pottorff offered to sell us his car and motor for a really good price. The frame is broke and the steering is broke but the motor is over 860 hp. All the other componets are good peices. If intersted I could check for you and see if he would still sell it.

[mini27]

dont sound to bad for a good SCORA motor. i would like to see some wing 305s come down around the burg maybe twin cites and other good indiana tracks. cost wise there about the same as what you could pick up a good SCORA motor. the only thang with the 305s not alot of people will put big bucks in them like they will try with a cast 410 block. full size wing sprints as a support class racing for 500 to win may be a good deal for some tracks.

[suade82]

I would love to see a spec class. People need to understand that if you race a spec class you should NOT be in racing for the money. If you want to race for money stop complaining about the high price of racing, takes money to make money. I would run a spec class for the fun of it, I would run for $75-100 to win, I dont even care if $75 is the same amount of money that last place recieved, I would just want a little something to offset the tow money. I just want to go out and have fun.

[6565]

We bought a backup 410 last year that turned out to be pretty good. Someone had it at our local racers swap meet, but didn't know much about it other than it was supposed to be fresh. This guy lived back in the woods and had money (afraid to ask where from!), but had a drag chevelle, a monster truck etc... The motor was stored in an old van in his yard! He was going to put it in a mud bog truck. It had Kistler stickers on it, but it was really on older Gaerte. Rodeck std weight block, 2 5/8" Kinsler, Brodix 287-12 heads, Mallory, etc...std mid-90's stuff. We pulled valve covers & spark plugs and checked what all we could and gave him 10K for it. We had it on our test stand in the shop running the next day!

Turns out the motor was apparently fresh (less than 2% leakdown an all cylinders & valves springs in good shape). We took a head off over the winter just to measure, and it is only bored .025 over & had no ridge with 8 shows on it (at that time). We now have 16 shows on it, among them a 2nd, 3rd, and a 1st at the tackiest paperclip 3/8 track we go to-with wings (Ohio Valley Speedway). Also came from 22 to 7th the one wingless show we ran @ Lawrenceburg earlier this year. We took a chance and got lucky with a real nice 'backup' motor-but those deals are out there!

I know a lot of mod guys that have "HUGE" money in their engines. I was looking at spending 12k for my modified engine and I still would have been short on HP. I mean the engine we were going to build had -12 heads,little M block,brodix intake,jessle rockers,15 to 1 JE Pistons and the list goes on and on..Thats why the sprint cars are a much better deal. no matter what class you run in and yes Keven is right about the steel blocks can be more money when they grenade because you can't just weld them up. We had a couple of guys running dart steel headed motors with us and doing pretty decent. The whole concept behind the SCORA deal was to give guys the opertunity to run in their own budget range. Now I said "RANGE" and that my friends is an open ended statement to be sure but it does give the guys that now have a super street or modified a chance at running a sprint car but I must agree that you can buy an all aluminum engines and decent engine at that in some cases for the same money as a hard hitting steel engine. Believe me I know I've been looking at them now for about 3 months hard.