STOTT & GROSE FORM ALLIANCE
Tim Grose raced nitro Funny Cars in the seventies and eighties before drag racing nitro became prohibitive for independent racers.
Quain Stott provides the quintessential rags to better quality rags story of a Pro Modified racer who used a frugal nature and persistent spirit to become a world champion.
Together, they are planning for a common era of racing together.
Stott will partner with Grose on a new Double Overhead Cam engine project. The engine combination will be supercharged and run a 50% nitro mix under the ADRL sanction.
The DOHC design Stott will run was originally designed in the mid-eighties by Joe Anahore and Joe Schubeck. The NHRA banned the engine in 1997 and the IHRA followed suit. No rules exist in ADRL preventing the use of the DOHC engine.
Stott Will Provide Car and Driver; Grose Provides the Unique Engine …
Tim Grose raced nitro Funny Cars in the seventies and eighties before drag racing nitro became prohibitive for independent racers.
Quain Stott provides the quintessential rags to better quality rags story of a Pro Modified racer who used a frugal nature and persistent spirit to become a world champion.
Together, they are planning for a common era of racing together.
Stott will partner with Grose on a new Double Overhead Cam engine project. The engine combination will be supercharged and run a 50% nitro mix under the ADRL sanction.
The DOHC design Stott will run was originally designed in the mid-eighties by Joe Anahore and Joe Schubeck. The NHRA banned the engine in 1997 and the IHRA followed suit. No rules exist in ADRL preventing the use of the DOHC engine.
“I think Quain is probably one of the neatest people I’ve ever met in drag racing,” Grose said. “He’s incredibly intense and well versed in every aspect of racing a car. He’s great on and off of the track. I think he’s a heck of a guy.”
“Of course, Tim Grose was one of my heroes in the seventies and eighties,” Stott added.
Stott is a former IHRA world champion and after nearly two decades of running every race on the series made the decision to commit exclusively to the 2009 ADRL Series.
The potential of tuning a nitro engine is a challenge that has always intrigued him.
“When I raced nitrous, I finished second to a blower car and then I switched over to a blower, I learned how to do my own tuning and now this opportunity to learn nitro is something that I have always wanted to do,” Stott admitted. “I just think nitro is neat all the way around.”
Grose admitted that he’s kept up with the ADRL on CompetitionPlus.com and used the recently contested Ford Drive One ADRL Summer Drags to pitch his idea. He approached two teams initially, the first of whom wasn’t interested and then when he talked to Stott, he didn’t have to pitch the idea twice.
“The engine will have bigger cylinder heads and 32 valves instead of 16,” Grose explained. “This engine is far more complicated than your standard pushrod engine. The performance attributes for this engine are huge and nothing holds a candle to it.”
Stott is adamant that he will keep his supercharged, alcohol engine combo ready in a different 1963 Corvette, while he and Grose develop the new nitro combination. Their game plan is to debut the nitro-powered car next spring at the traditional ADRL season opener in Houston, Texas.
“My philosophy has always been that you don’t put a car in the race until it is ready,” Stott said.
To learn more about Grose's engines, visit TruePowerLLC.com .
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