Spec Engine Parts List

[Old Racer]

Where do you find the list of part numbers aloud for the Superlate Spec motor ?

[JWP]

Good Question..........
its a secret I guess its a scam.
What happened to the contingency $$$ program that was promised with this monopoly? ??

I think its time for the racer to stand up and ask questions? Choose your engine builder or build your own dont be cornholed to buy from only a select group of ......

Jacob Warren

[dd38]

Build a "Spec" engine like they run up in Pensacola and Mobile and some other tracks up there. You can go right to 5flagsspeedway.com i believe and under the SLM rules it has a link to it. You don't have to have all the specific parts like a certain timing cover, oil pan, valve covers, pistons,crank and so on. Plus you cannot build it yourself. The one they run up there just have "Spec's" and have to just fit the rules. No name brands. And you can build it yourself if you want. Get with Jacob(JWP) and he can fix you up.

[Matt Albee]

I know a lot of people have gone to Jimmy Cope over the years for spec engines, he seems to have the most spec engines out there, but i don't know if the actual specs are published. I wouldn't mind seeing those specs myself.

[dd38]

I believe Progressive has the most. Like twice or 3 times as many.

[Matt Albee]

You might be right. I'll take your word for it.

[Ricky Brooks]

Theres no secret about any of the SPEC engines running. Theres no reason for a list to be put out on any of them. If you dont like it so be it but we have another option for those as well and it makes just as much power and anyone can build it. The only scam going on is these message boards where people bitch and whine behind a computer. All the spec engine builders put up money all year at different races. If you dont like a spec engine then build a SSPE engine better known as a parts engine. All engine combination currently running are to close to complain about any of them. So go to work on your chassis and you might just get a little faster.

[Matt Albee]

Theres no secret about any of the SPEC engines running. Theres no reason for a list to be put out on any of them. If you dont like it so be it but we have another option for those as well and it makes just as much power and anyone can build it. The only scam going on is these message boards where people bitch and whine behind a computer. All the spec engine builders put up money all year at different races. If you dont like a spec engine then build a SSPE engine better known as a parts engine. All engine combination currently running are to close to complain about any of them. So go to work on your chassis and you might just get a little faster.

Would you be kind enough to post in English from now on. Or at least have an adult take a look at it first.

[Matt Albee]

Theres no secret about any of the SPEC engines running. Theres no reason for a list to be put out on any of them. If you dont like it so be it but we have another option for those as well and it makes just as much power and anyone can build it. The only scam going on is these message boards where people bitch and whine behind a computer. All the spec engine builders put up money all year at different races. If you dont like a spec engine then build a SSPE engine better known as a parts engine. All engine combination currently running are to close to complain about any of them. So go to work on your chassis and you might just get a little faster.

Ricky's post has lots of words without one clear thought. An indictment of the educational system for sure. And possibly an indictment of too many beers before posting from " behind a computer ".
In trying to wade through his gibberish, it looks as though Ricky thinks he is in charge of spec engines in Florida. I doubt he is. But he mentioned spec engine builders putting up money, so i'd say any participation in the spec engine building business would require a pay off to tracks in the form of "points fund money".

[OldSchool+]

Matt--Seems like there are a number of thoughts there to me.

>If you don't like spec engines--lump it (although no one complained about them...).
>Spec engines are all about the same.
>You can build a similar "parts" engine yourself.
>Instead of worrying about spec engines, work on your chassis

Yeah... the guy coming off the corner the hardest is the one moving up, and that is typically motor. That aside,

Matt or Ricky or anyone else:

Could you explain what a "spec" engine is? I always thought the Super Late Models ran whatever cubic money could buy, and bore & stroke, compression, porting, cam, all that was wide open and sort of proprietary to the professional builder.

If it is "limited", like the crate classes including sportsman, well, then why the heck are there so many late model classes with similar chassis, as mentioned in the "garage queens" thread?

Thx.

[Matt Albee]

We'll have to wait for a racer to step in and explain spec engines. I'm still waiting for someone to fully explain pit slabs and why racers have to pay extra for them.

[ocalasp76]

We'll have to wait for a racer to step in and explain spec engines. I'm still waiting for someone to fully explain pit slabs and why racers have to pay extra for them.

Those are tracks I tend to avoid. Maybe paying for a slab for this season, but EVERY race night having to pay to park after $30+ at the gate is just a rip off... JMO
-JIM-

[scottgarrity07]

Pit slab fee is where, after you have paid for your pit pass, you have to pay for rental of the slab of concrete to park your car on. Don't know about Desoto but at Citrus these slabs were actually poured by the racers themselves with the promise that the slab was "theirs". Well, somehow that went out the window and a fee is now charged. You don't have to rent a slab. You are allowed to park for free at the extreme end of the pits away from the track, in the dirt...

[turnleft]

florida spec

I have followed this for some time. The Florida spec engine pretty much saved super late model racing, car counts have been low, but not because of the engine packages available. To be competitive at any track that required HP, you would have to spend around 40K to get a competitive engine, before the spec's. You can now buy a spec for around 17K, and run with the high dollar built engines now. The spec is built with all inexpensive off the shelve parts, but is allowed more cubic inches to compensate for the HP of a built engine. I am sure the builders are making profit on the spec engines, but they need to make a profit to be in business. All in all, I would say the spec engines are good for racing in general. There are options for those who insist on building there own engines. Vince P.

[Don Nerone]

We'll have to wait for a racer to step in and explain spec engines. I'm still waiting for someone to fully explain pit slabs and why racers have to pay extra for them.

Ill do the pit slab for you.
Don't bitch about my spelling and if you don't get it im sorry.

In the days past there was only dirt in the pits at all the tracks.
some driver that was in did conc for a living asked if he could do a slab.
Great idea. The slam he did was about big as 3 pits. the track took over and sold the slabs to the racers that wanted and the racer did the work.
As years went some of the racers did not show and that greedy track promoter (me ) rented the slab for one night or is sat empty.
at NSS the slabs in the infield were owned but the racer. If you could not park on someone else slab the infield would be empty. There is only one racer with his slab in the infield.. David Rogers and I let him park on it with whatever he had.
I todays world I don't know why any track would charge. All the slabs have been payed for years.
Ill give you the spec engine when my fingers are ready..

Don62