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Steve Schmidt Racing Engines (SSRE) has been in business for 40 years. 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.

“Getting into engine building was just a natural progression,” Schmidt says. “I got interested in cars and I got interested in racing cars and I drag raced for about 45 years. 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. Then we raced professionally for 12 years in NHRA Pro Stock. It’s now grown to where we work on – between OEM engines and racing engines – approximately 700 engines a year.”

SSRE’s two machine shops are necessary to split up the huge amount of engine work coming through the shop. One machine shop is primarily for OEM engines and the other machine shop is primarily for racing engines. However, Schmidt says the shop has no limits when it comes to the engines it can work on.

“We work on every kind of engine there is, no limits – automotive, marine, industrial, racing,” he says. “The bulk of our racing engines are for drag racing, truck pulling and marine. Although we dabble in other kinds as well, such as road race engines.”