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Team: Don Schumacher Racing
Team Website: www.shoeracing.com
Series: NHRA
Series Website: www.nhra.com
Division: Pro Stock

On the surface, NHRA Pro Stock cars appear to closely resemble production-based showroom vehicles, but underneath the brightly colored sheetmetal, they are in fact, all out race cars capable of 6.6-second quarter-mile elapsed times and speeds of over 208-mph. The body styles most often found in Pro Stock includes the current model Pontiac Grand Am, Chevrolet Cavalier and Cobalt, Ford Escort, and Dodge Stratus. In order to maintain a stock appearance, aerodynamic modifications in Pro Stock are limited to a single 14-inch rear spoiler, and a hood scoop, which not only feeds additional air into the massive twin four-barrel carburetors, but is necessary for engine clearance.

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Unlike Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, which use exotic nitromethane fuel, superchargers, and fuel injection, Pro Stock entries must burn high octane racing gasoline and are limited to a pair of four-barrel carburetors. Pro Stock engines can also be no larger than 500-cid, and each car can weigh no less than 2,350 pounds, with driver. A competitive Pro Stock engine produces more than 1,350 horsepower and revs to more than 10,500 rpm.

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