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Who else besides RoushYates builds Ford sprint car engines?

Best first post ever. LOL. Current WoO champion engine builder Ronnie Shaver has multiple Ford powered WoO titles. Kriner's recently built some 410 Fords. Dan Deming Fords have won a title or 2 in recent years in NY. Gaerte and Cornett have built a few over the years. Don Ott just started playing with Fords as well. Dan Deitrich won many races in central PA with self built Fords from his lawn mower shop years ago. Cressman from South Dakota builds them too. The official answer to the question.....any builder with a customer smart enough to ask for one.

Luna's Ford engine style that won 2 WoO titles and 3 
Kings Royals before a weight rule against the best EVER
in their prime and now DOMINATES super dirt late model
racing is no longer allowed/wanted in a WoO sprint
car.... Was Luna a miracle worker?

Bob Hampshire built quite a few over the years, just not recently

do it in the dirt

Are there any woo teams running 410 fords?

I don't understand the big deal about the engine being a Chevy or Ford. I bet it's been 15-20 years or more since a traveling WOO team used a stock block, heads or any factory parts. Today's sprint engines are all aftermarket blocks, heads and everything else. The only thing these engines have in common with Chevy, Ford or MOPAR might be the firing order!

Gerald Cressman, from Hartford, South Dakota, has been building stout Ford racing engines for a long, long time.

Once again, 99.9% of all WoO, Lucas Oil, USAC sprint cars and Silver Crowns are all Chevy engines. At least started life as a Chevy. And 99.9% of all the thousands of sprint cars, late models, street stock, A and B mods, etc are all Chevy. Most of those in stock cars are fairly stock Chevy motors. Same story in the NHRA: vast majority of motors used in all classes are Chevy motors. Remember when Ford went so far as to pay Jason Blonde to put Ford decals on his sprint car that broke the Bristol speedway record, running 144mph+. The thing according to Joe Gaerte was a Chevy engine BUT the story isn't over there as Brian Gerster with a MOPAR motor breaks that record with a lap of 150 mph and change in his Must See Extreme Sprint Car Series sprinter, slightly better weather conditions for Gerster but that record may not be broken for a long time. Why would Ford Motor Co pay to put their name on a sprint car with a Gaerte Chevy engine? Because they knew SPEED channel was there and were going to play the speed record runs by a motorcycle, a stock Mustang, a wingless sprint car a modified and a winged sprint car (Blonde). SPEED must have run that segment 25 to 30 times over 6 months, at least, so FoMoCo got their money's worth, most assumed the car had a Ford engine. Crooked!

To compare Roush Yates so called Ford 410 motor to something you can find in a Ford truck is like Ilmor Manufacturing putting the name Chevy (thanks to money from GM to build them) on the 2.4 liter V6 Chevy Indy cars last year that won most of the races in Indy car. Ya wanna start batting around motor makers, expect to lose race fans. Mindless started this fiasco.

"Don Ott started playing around with them" right, playing around with them, no doubt a Roush Yates from start to scratch engine called a Roush Yates engine, not really called a Ford engine. Roush Yates farmed out the block for the 410 motor they built, built the rest including heads in their well-stocked shop. If you have expensive equipment in your garage, you too can tinker with a Roush Yates engine. As far as Gaerte and Cornett building a few, none that are winning anything.

Lawlessness + liberalism = HELL -  NYC, Detroit, Chicago, 
Seattle, LA  Who the H runs those cities. 

Heres the main key to getting a builder to build you a good ford engine. Find an engine builder with a history of building winning engines, pay him $80,000 to build your motor and take him these to put on the engine and you will have a winning Ford sprint car motor. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/fms-m-1820-fr15?seid=google&gclid=CKr0hIDrg7UCFao7MgodUlQAJA

Like dirtraceorbust said, none of these motors are any where near a factory made motor anymore so the brand on it is really nothing more than marketing to someone who doesn't know any better.

http://gph.is/XMLGff

Danica must care about a 410 Ford.

Luna's Ford engine style that won 2 WoO titles and 3 
Kings Royals before a weight rule against the best EVER
in their prime and now DOMINATES super dirt late model
racing is no longer allowed/wanted in a WoO sprint
car.... Was Luna a miracle worker?