CFE Racing Products Dominating NHRA Pro Stock Ranks In 2015

CFE Racing Products, based out of Eastpointe, Michigan, is turning heads in the NHRA ranks in Pro Stock, Competition Eliminator and Super Stock. CFE’s product line consists of custom CNC-Ported cylinder heads, fabricated and cast intake manifolds and the ever popular line of billet engine blocks.

Carl Foltz began his career with a die grinder and a head full of ideas. Foltz’s custom intake manifold and countless hours porting the heads and testing on the flow bench yielded an engine built by Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins sixty more horsepower when it went back out the door that it came in. CFE Racing Products was born. Foltz’s products splashed onto the quarter-mile NHRA Pro Stock scene in 1996 when Jim Yates won the NHRA World Championship.

Foltz continued to help power the Pro Stock champion in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 and most recently, the 2014 champion, Allen Johnson. 2000 was the mark of a new millennium and a huge milestone for Foltz — CFE-equipped cars won the NHRA Pro Stock championship (Jeg Coughlin, Jr.), the NASCAR Winston Cup (Bobby Labonte), the Indianapolis 500 (Juan Pablo Montoya) and the Indy Racing League series championship (Buddy Lazier) all in the same season, which was unprecedented in the history of motorsports. The possibility of a season like that happening again was second-to-none.

For CFE, it only took two years. Jeg Coughlin, Jr., Tony Stewart, Helio Castroneves and Sam Hornish completed the same ranks in the same categories and series just two seasons later which put Carl and CFE Racing Products in the forefront of the market.

Flash forward to July 2015 — six NHRA Pro Stock event winners and six number one qualifier awards, ten NHRA Competition Eliminator event winners, five NHRA Super Stock event winners in the first half of the season. CFE also holds the NHRA Pro Stock National Elapsed Time and MPH Records with Erica Enders-Stevens’ 6.464 second blast at 215.55 miles per hour at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey in June 2014.

Veteran Pro Stock driver, Allen Johnson and young gun Drew Skillman both used CFE’s CNC Ported cylinder heads and billet intake manifold to pull off the CFE event sweep at the 18th Annual Lucas Oil Route 66 NHRA Nationals this past weekend in Joliet, Illinois. Skillman qualified on the pole position while Johnson hoisted the Wally at the end of the day to put his mark on Route 66.

CFE Racing Products has been rolling strong in the NHRA ranks so far in 2015 but their sights are set on the big prize at the end of the season — the ever elusive class championship. Good luck from Dragzine to all of the CFE customers in their quest to go for the gold in 2015.

Photos courtesy NHRA/National Dragster