By Mary Lendzion Photos courtesy of Jeff Heintz Jeff Heintz has been a formidable force in his Fourth-Gen Camaro in Chevrolet Performance Stock presented by Scoggin Dickey Parts Center since joining the category in 2019. He has earned two third-place finishes and a championship, and he has run as quick and fast as 9.86 and 133 mph. Now he's taking another step by setting up a Fifth-Gen C...

Holley's complete, mid-mount accessory system has all accessories pulled in tighter than other accessory drives. At the heart of the system is a "bracketless" design (patent pending), where the accessories bolt directly to the timing cover for a clean, integrated system. The design offers superb engine visibility to show off horsepower, not accessories. Among the many swap friendly f...

Heatshield Products' new patent-pending Pro-Boot Shield spark plug boot protector keeps spark plug boots from being damaged by underhood heat, including from exhaust manifolds or headers, thereby preventing ignition misfires or failure and potential engine damage. Spark plug boots are constantly exposed to radiated or direct-contact heat, whether a vehicle has a cast-iron exhaust manifold or s...

The new Derale PWM Fan Controller continuously monitors and controls engine temperature, increasing the vehicle's cooling efficiency using Soft Start Technology. Fans ramp-up slowly, eliminating harmful AMP spikes. The unit will continuously monitor engine temperature and operate the fans at the optimum fan rate as needed. The net result is the electric fans often only run between 40-60% to ke...

December 17, 2021The RTRA and NMCA Tech Committee released today, the latest draft of Xtreme Street Preliminary 2022 rules with some clarifications highlighted in blue. Xtreme Street rules are posted on the NMCA website rules page: www.nmcadigital.com/2022-class-rules-payouts/ Rule Requests or Questions for these classes should be directed to either [email protected] or [email protected].

Aeromotive, the leading manufacturer of aftermarket fuel systems and accessories, has introduced new direct drop-in fuel pump modules for the 2016-2021 Chevrolet Camaro and the 2016-2019 Cadillac CTS-V and ATS-V. These Direct Drop-In Fuel Pump Modules are available with dual or triple pumps and come preassembled for a quick and simple installation. The new Direct Drop-In Fuel Pump Modules for the ...

Written by Ainsley Jacobs Photography by Kevin DiOssi Drag racing is a multifaceted challenge. Every pass tests the mechanical fortitude of the vehicle and its components. Often, it tests a racer's skill. Many times, it also tests their credit limits. In the case of NMCA Proform Rumble racer Regina Puckett, however, her 2021 season was also a test of patience and perseverance. Into cars ever s...

On December 11th, 2021, the NMCA presented the champions of the NMCA/LSX classes with special Victor awards and Nitto Tire Diamond Tree rings to commemorate their championship efforts this season. The private dinner, held during the PRI Show weekend, was hosted by ProMedia president and CEO, Steve Wolcott, and included Chevrolet Performance dignitaries, including Bill Martens and Todd Gallant, ...

The NMCA Drag Racing Series brought its 2021 racing season to a close on Friday December 10th, 2021 during the Performance Racing Industry show as it crowned its class champions. The event was a memorable experience for all and the NMCA would like to congratulate its class champions. VP Racing Fuels Xtreme Pro ModChip King Mickey Thompson Tires Street OutlawAlan Felts Holley EFI Factor...

Mooresville, NC - RaceQuip and Carolina Racing Supply have partnered to bring the all-new RaceQuip Super Store concept to the Carolinas. CRS has devoted a large portion of its retail showroom to showcase the high quality and affordable safety equipment that the RaceQuip brand has to offer. They've backed it up by filling their warehouse with a huge inventory of the complete line of safety gear...

The NMCA Muscle Car Nationals is excited to introduce Drag & Drive Shootout in partnership with Sick the Magazine, bringing select long haul street car participants to three events in 2022. In addition, Gear Vendors has jumped in as the sponsor of this exciting invitational that will feature cars driven by stars like Tom Bailey, social media influencer Alex Taylor, and 2-time Drag Week champio...

For six years, Kevin DiOssi has captured fleeting moments in time during the NMCA Muscle Car Nationals as the lead photographer. His images have told countless stories from the human emotion of competition to the powerful and dynamic machines that take center stage during an event. Presented here is a collection of his favorite photos, some you've seen in digital and print, while others are be...

November 30, 2021Attention NMCA Xtreme Street racers. In a continuing effort to align Xtreme Street and Ultra Street rules, the RTRA and NMCA Tech team released today, the second draft of preliminary 2022 rules. The Xtreme Street rules are posted on the NMRA website rules page. If you have any questions, concerns, or missing combinations in the 2022 PRELIMINARY rules, please email the NMCA tech...

As we celebrate the upcoming New Year, this serves as a reminder that Snell SA2010, M2010, and SFI 2010 certified helmets will be expired as of 1/1/2022. The NMRA Ford Nationals and NMCA Muscle Car Nationals will require Snell SA2015, M2015, M2020, SA2020, or the appropriate SFI rated helmets in 2022 and beyond. The off-season is also a great time to inspect all of your dated safety gear such as b...

Sonnax adapter flange yokes make it easy to convert a two-piece driveline to a one-piece, U-joint-style driveline - an ideal upgrade for a wide range of modified performance vehicles. New for 2021, the company's popular 3-bolt adapter flange yoke is now available with a special spacer that adds 8L90 and 10L80 transmissions to its original lineup of 6L80, 6L90, TR6060, 05'06 Pontiac GTO, an...

Written By Steve Turner Photography by Kevin DiOssi and courtesy of Steeda For followers of 2015+ Mustang quarter-mile performance, particularly the naturally aspirated variety, Steeda's Silver Bullet is the pony car shot heard round the world. Saddled with the mission of proving the company's aftermarket upgrades on the quarter-mile, this car quickly set itself apart from the crowd. Pilot...

November 19, 2021Attention NMRA Renegade and NMCA Xtreme Street Racersin an effort to align with Ultra Street, the NMRA/NMCA Tech team has been working with RTRA for 2022 rules. The first draft of Preliminary 2022 rules are posted on the NMRA and NMCA websites. If you have any questions, concerns or missing combinations in the 2022 PRELIMINARY rules, please email the NMRA/NMCA tech team at nmra...

For the 2022 season, the NMCA Technical Committee worked with John Sears (RTRA Series) to maintain a universal rule set for Ultra Street, NMCA Xtreme Street and NMRA Renegade in 2022. The 2022 Xtreme Street preliminary rules have been released on the NMCA website. Additionally, the RTRA and NMCA have also posted the 2022 Preliminary X275 rules for the shootout class that will run at a...

The NMCA Muscle Car Nationals is proud to announce it will be an exhibitor during the 2021 Performance Racing Industry Show, held December 9-11, at the Indianapolis Convention Center. The muscle car national event series will be located in Booth 1632, which sits in the "Green Hall" and is near the crossover to the "Yellow Hall." The location is consistent with its previous exhibitor booth space, a...

ProMedia Events and Publishing, parent company of the Holley NMRA Ford Nationals and NMCA Muscle Car Nationals, is excited to announce Augustine Herrera as the new NMRA/NMCA National Tech Director, effective immediately. His duties include overseeing fair competition in both drag racing series and leading the on-site Tech staff at all national events. “Augustine joined our team in 2019 an...

Howell EFI, a leader in EFI conversion kits (GM/TPI/TBI) and wiring harnesses for direct injection swaps, now offers plug and play LT1/LT4 and EcoTec3 wiring harnesses for classic muscle cars, Corvettes and trucks, as well as multiple options to transplant power for both automatic and manual transmissions and even supercharged classics. The LT1/LT4, and EcoTec3 wiring harnesses are customized t...

The NMCA Technical Committee released updated Preliminary rules today in the following classes:

• Stock Eliminator
• Super Stock
• Nitrous Pro Street
• N/A 10.5

The 2021 NMCA Preliminary Class Rules can be found here: https://www.nmcadigital.com/2022-class-rules-payouts/.

By Mary Lendzion Vince Khoury is not afraid to push the envelope when it comes to being competitive in ARP Nitrous Pro Street. He and his team regularly comb through his car and combination to ensure that they are extracting every amount of power possible, and it has paid off. The driver from Michigan captured the championship in the category in 2020, and was committed to repeating the fe...

By Mary Lendzion Leonard Long is a racer through and through. The owner of G-Force Racing Transmissions and Long Shifters is constantly coming up with ways to coax more power from his combination and clock quicker and faster times in his Mustang motivated by a small-block Ford with machine work by Ray Barton Racing Engines and assembly by Jay Zolko, Visner Engine Development-prepared D3 head...

By Mary Lendzion Back in 2015, Eric Bardekoff began building his beautiful S550 Mustang. He spent hours in his shop, EB Custom Works in New York, and with pure passion and precision, he transformed what he purchased as a wrecked street car into a winning strip car. As it turned out, that winning strip car, which Bardekoff also painted and then powered with a Coyote engine and Whipple supe...

By Mary Lendzion Bill Skillman is a fierce frontrunner in Holley EFI Factory Super Cars. He earned championships in the incredibly challenging category in 2019 and 2020, and he was focused on earning another one in 2021 in his Mustang Cobra Jet powered by a 327 cubic-inch Coyote engine massaged by Holbrook Racing Engines, topped with a Whipple supercharger and backed by a Coan Turbo 400 tran...

DiabloSport is spotlighting the AMP'd 2.0 throttle booster with value-packed features like an industry-exclusive Bluetooth remote and user-defined Throttle Curves. The company has seen an increase in demand for the product, and is making it available at the lower cost of $249.95. AMP'd 2.0 covers hundreds of different vehicle applications, and the company offers an app to contr...

As we enter the final months of 2021 and continue celebrating the champions and Top 10 finishers, the NMCA Muscle Car Nationals is gearing up for 2022. Listed below are the Championship categories for 2022, which will be featured at all six NMCA National events. Below the championship categories is a rundown of the specialty categories for 2022. Preliminary rules for the 2022 season have been rele...

VP Racing Fuels, Inc., a world leader in performance fuels, lubricants, additives, and retail, has signed a licensing agreement with Champion Laboratories, Inc. to offer a line of premium racing oil filters designed for racing and high-performance passenger cars. "At VP Racing Fuels, we pride ourselves in partnering with best-in-class manufacturers like Champion Laboratories for our licensing effo...

By Mary Lendzion The cars in the Quick Fuel Technology Nostalgia Super Stock category are celebrated across the country for their character and their competitiveness. That certainly includes Brent Wheeler's Coronet, which is powered by a 540 cubic-inch Wedge engine built by fellow racer Bill Boomhower with components from Indy Cylinder Heads, Comp Cams, MAHLE, Clevite and ATI, and complemented...

Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center (SDPC) Race Shop is known for building some high-horsepower engine combinations for race and street cars, and it's latest creation shows what you can do with GM's production cast-iron, L8T truck block, along with a host of other factory parts. It's no secret that enthusiasts and engine builders have regularly pushed the limits of stock LS and LT engine block...

By Mary Lendzion Through the years, Andy Warren has become a bit of a wonder in NMCA Detroit Truetrac Nostalgia Muscle. He knows the ins and outs of the category, and he is incredibly competitive in it. In fact, he has earned thirty-three event wins, and is still the NMCA's winningest driver. Soon after the Kentuckian earned his ninth championship in 2020, he set out to back it up in 2021 in h...

By Mary Lendzion Upon retiring from farming after forty-eight years, Ronnie Hackelton decided to go racing. He did it for the camaraderie, but as it turned out, he was quite competitive, and he earned a Chevrolet Performance Stock championship in the Chevrolet Performance Challenge Series in 2015. Since then, he has been committed to performing at peak levels in NMCA Chevrolet Performance...

All racers, fans, media, and sponsors are invited to attend the 2021 NMCA Muscle Car Nationals Awards Ceremony, held December 10th in the Sagamore Ballroom 1-3 in the Indianapolis Convention Center. The cocktail hour begins at 5:00PM with the Awards Ceremony kicking off at 5:30PM. Reservations can be made by emailing [email protected] by November 15th, please include your name, NMRA or NMC...

American Powertrain has introduced the new HYDRAMAX true bolt-in, under-dash Hydraulic Clutch System designed for 1979-1993 Fox body Mustangs that completely eliminates the need for a cable actuated clutch pedal. The new system features an integrated under-dash hydraulic master cylinder and a bolt-in clutch pedal. The included clutch pedal allows for an easy conversion of a cable clutch equippe...

By Mary Lendzion The NMCA Mickey Thompson Street Outlaw category is filled with impassioned competitors. They want to go fast, they want to go rounds and they want to get to the winner's circle. They also face challenges head-on, and among them is Alan Felts of Bowling Green, Kentucky. He's honed in on hauling in his Mustang powered by a small-block Ford pu...

Finned aluminum brake fluid reservoirs from Wilwood give firewalls a unique high-performance look. Machining ribs in the billet reduces weight, now 4.6 oz. - 3 oz. less than Wilwood's standard billet reservoir, and increases surface area for passive cooling. These durable reservoirs hold 4 oz. of fluid and can be mounted directly to Wilwood's single or tandem remote master cylinders, or plumbed...

By Steve Turner Photography by the FSC staff As the tree drops, more than 3,000 horsepower awaits under the composite body of a roaring Pro Mod. Unleashing it sends that thrust to two huge slicks out back. They dig into the track and propel the finely tuned machine past 60 feet in less than a second. At these lofty levels, races are won and lost in this narrow window of hundredths and thousandths ...

NMCA would like to kick-off the 2022 rules discussion in an effort to serve you better. With that in mind, please submit rule requests for the 2022 NMCA drag racing series by October 24, 2021. Our Tech Department, will begin evaluating those requests to help form the 2022 Preliminary Rules for next season. We value all of your input and while not all requests are granted, each one is studied ...

Attention Racersthanks for an awesome 2021 racing season! The points have been updated, please verify your final tally is correct as there will be a 7-day limit (ends of 10/8/21) on filing an official protest for incorrect point totals. CHECK THE POINTS LISTINGS HERE.

Written by Steve Baur Photography by Kevin DiOssi In 2015, Kevin Lumsden of Royce City, Texas, showed up at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis with the first DR525-powered car, a Fourth-Gen Camaro SS destined to compete in the Chevrolet Performance Stock presented by Scoggin Dickey Parts Center (CPS) class that the NMCA launched for the 2016 racing season. After several seasons racing in CPS,...

Interview by Mary Lendzion Photos by NMCA Staff It seems that Nicole Liberty-Cach was destined to be a racer. Her father, Craig Liberty, was racing the very day she was born to her mother, Joelanne Liberty, and then she spent her formative years focusing on everything her father did at his shop, Liberty's Gears in Michigan. She wanted to know what he was building, b...

Champion, a recognized leader in racing and specialty lubricants, has launched its Champion Full-Synthetic Racing Power Steering Fluid. Champion Racing Power Steering Fluid'reduces temperatures and delivers consistent steering response in competition applications. It has exceptional low temperature flow that reduces initial drag on the racing pump. Its robust formulation is a full-synthetic ...

Written by Mary Lendzion Photos by Kevin DiOssi Despite hurdles and hindrances along the way, racers were resilient and resourceful from the first through the final event of the season, the 20th Annual NMCA World Street Finals presented by Chevrolet Performance, Sept. 23-26, 2021 at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana. They hung tough in the Hoosier State while chasing points and championships, an...

Racers were saying that they were going to go after the tune-up and the tree for the final rounds of qualifying yesterday at the 20th Annual NMCA World Street Finals presented by Chevrolet Performance at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana, and they were true to their word. We saw everything from wild wheelies to exciting elapsed times, and when it was all said and done last night, racers began preparing...

There were a ton of fast passes in favorable weather yesterday at the 20th Annual NMCA World Street Finals presented by Chevrolet Performance at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana. There were also plenty of personal best elapsed-times, speeds and packages as racers focused on strong finishes at this final NMCA event of the season. While rain fell briefly this morning, the forecast calls for sunshine an...

While the chase to the 2021 NMCA Muscle Car Nationals championships began back in March, racers have remained unflinching and unwavering despite all of the competition, challenges and calamities that came their way. Starting today at the final race of the season, the 20th Annual NMCA World Street Finals presented by Chevrolet Performance at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana, they'll focus on finishing ...

The NMCA celebrates its 20th Annual World Finals event presented by Chevrolet Performance at Lucas Oil Raceway Indianapolis this weekend. Cool weather is on the forecast for the weekend, which means elapsed times will fall as competitors race for the final points in their hunt for an NMCA class championship. Thursdays' schedule can be found at the bottom of the page. Mike Naumann is debutin...