It’s actually quite incredible that Steve is able to keep tabs on the engines going in and out of the shop these days. Although we dabble in other kinds as well, such as road race engines.” “The bulk of our racing engines are for drag racing, truck pulling and marine. “We work on every kind of engine there is, no limits – automotive, marine, industrial, racing,” he says. However, Schmidt says the shop has no limits when it comes to the engines it can work on. One machine shop is primarily for OEM engines and the other machine shop is primarily for racing engines. SSRE’s two machine shops are necessary to split up the huge amount of engine work coming through the shop. It’s now grown to where we work on – between OEM engines and racing engines – approximately 700 engines a year.” Then we raced professionally for 12 years in NHRA Pro Stock. As I started doing engines and setting national records, I started doing engines for other people and it just evolved and kept growing and kept growing. “I got interested in cars and I got interested in racing cars and I drag raced for about 45 years. “Getting into engine building was just a natural progression,” Schmidt says. Steve himself got into the industry due to the hot rod and muscle car craze of the ‘60s and he’s been invested ever since. Steve Schmidt Racing Engines (SSRE) has been in business for 40 years.
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