Black Z

I was wondering if there were any good ls1 engine builders in Texas? Preferably in the Dallas area.

Textralia

Yeppers....you have a great one in Dallas actually Garland
kim Barr Racing.....he's been building engines since the mid 70's...He built all my blown gas dragboat engines...never had a failure....and he does a lot of ls1 and c5r motors.....tell him his Bud Jeff sent ya......Wash

Slowverado

469-721-5208 give him a call, his name is Watt. he's crazy, but he's good at what he does. he's in DFW area.

BurnOut

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Al Weiss up in Witchita Falls. Expensive, but if his work is good enough for Eddie Hill, it's good enough for me. Hell of a nice guy, too.

racer7088

We will be doing our engines in Houston but we have a shop in Dallas too that used to be MMT. I do the engines here and all the fastest LSx stuff so far has come from us or SAM where I will be working till we're 100 per cent open. I know little about the other guys but I can answer any question you throw me and I do the engine building myself so I know what it takes to do what you want from 9s NA to regular fast street cars with the LSx. The dallas area is about to see some truly fast LSx stuff come out.

sr71bb

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watt is the man to call.He is most definatly crazy.

onyxxtreme

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texas engine builders?
um, just half the sponsors, just about

Black Z

Damn, this helps alot. Now I need to make a decision if I want to call this crazy **** Watt or tuck my tail and run like a "BITCH". Thanks guys for the info.

Jimmy98Z

There is LG motorsports and MMT/HPE and keith craft motorsports they are prolly your best bet.
Jimmy

Black Z

I was wondering about MMT. They are right down the road from me. I've heard a couple of good things about them. preci8it.

wicked 98z

MMT and keith craft seem to have there stuff together. Some quick cars come out of both of those shops

kumar75150

Watt built my motor.

He did all the MMT motors for the last 2 years.

Now that MMT has become HPE, HPE's machine shop in Houston is going to do all their motors.

stealth

Reher Morrison

BigTex

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I'd lean towards MMT / HPE myself. I trust Sean in his LS1 skills. Now with HPE taking over the shop and building quality motors for the whole company, it should really be a winning combo. Having that shop in Royce City so close to Commerce will be a huge benefit too.

Gold Z

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Watt's shop is in Royce City. He is a perfectionist about his engines. He has lot's of experience with LS1s too. He made a believer out of me.

Chuck@

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The quality of the work coming out of the new HPE/MMT shop will be substantially better than what has been coming out of there the last couple years.. Which for the LS1 world in general, has been good. But there will be no comparison... Our proof will be in the pudding once you guys see our shop car lineup this year HPE will be setting the new n/a record for sure within a month or so. As well as more to come that are currently in the making.... HPE does not plan to contend for the Texas LS1 market. We plan to take over the LS1 world!

Best Regards,
Chuck

14u2nv

ARE YOU JOKING?

Slowverado

i like the goals you set, and how confident you are in them Chuck...that's a great quality in a businessman, best of luck in reacing them all.

mitchntx

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So send me a quote and time frame to build a road racing short block, turn key.

Moderate lift cam will be used, thinking in the 224/.560/112 range.
I have Patriot S2 heads milled 0.020 and looking for compression to be around 11.1

The motor needs to live at 5K-6K all day long in August heat. I have the radiator and oil cooler for the job.

mitchntx@charter.net

99 Black Bird T/A

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Checking over >>>>>>>

You can't swing a dead cat in the state of Texas without hitting a good LS1 engine builder. It's just not possible.

Your very lucky you've got a lots of excellent shops to choose from unlike really anywhere else in the country.