Kuntz & Company® Racing Engines Bank on COMP Cams® For Performance Parts

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Whether it be for an alcohol dragster or a dirt late model, Kuntz & Company® Racing Engines depend on COMP Cams® performance products to get the winning edge

Nestled in the small, southwest Arkansas town of Arkadelphia resides Kuntz & Company® Racing Engines, which produces power plants for every motorsports division imaginable, ranging from drag cars to dirt late models to road racing cars. The CEO and Founder of the company, Jim Kuntz, began working in the motorsports market in 1963, when drag racing first caught his eye.

Kuntz & Company® powerplant in a Ford Mustang LX

Kuntz comments, “Back in the early 1960s I started to gain an interest in racing. I was working at a Ford dealership where my everyday job consisted of working with the same hot rods and muscle cars that now make collectors salivate. Working with those incredible machines gave me the drive to want to devise ways to make them go even faster!”

Kuntz’s desire for aftermarket performance led to the formation of Jim Kuntz Racing, which in its infancy was a side project, focused primarily on drag racing, that complimented his full-time job at the Ford dealership. By 1986, Kuntz & Company® Racing Engines was born as a self sufficient entity. Kuntz’s endeavors had already accumulated several accolades, including seven NHRA national records, multiple NHRA divisional championships, and a U.S. Nationals title. With Kuntz now able to focus solely on his own business, his clientele began to grow by leaps and bounds with customers from nearly every form of motorsports.

Not only did his clientele expand, but his services did as well. In addition to motor building, Kuntz & Company® services grew to include a full service machine shop, which offered balancing, machining, cylinder head work, dyno-service and custom-built engines. The wide array of services Kuntz & Company® had grown to offer set them apart from many of their competitors, and many of the top drivers in various motorsports realms began to take note of this. Despite his company growing at a break-neck pace, one thing that did not change was Jim’s hands on approach with every engine.

“Since day one, I have gone by the ethic to treat each and every customer the same, and to stay involved with every aspect of our products. I honestly believe that this has been a major factor in the success of our engines,” comments Kuntz.

Bill Frye driving a Kuntz powered late model dirt car

One driver who recognized the quality of Kuntz and Company® products was nationally renowned dirt late model driver, Bill Frye. Kuntz and Frye teamed together in the mid 90s, and the path of destruction that they wreaked on the competition was massive. With Kuntz & Company® Racing Engines in his dirt late model, Frye powered his way to hundreds of feature wins across the country, as well as five Mid America Racing Series (MARS) National Championships.

Kuntz regards his endeavors with Frye as some of his proudest moments. In fact, Jim Kuntz comments, “To be able to build an engine that can be pushed to the brink every lap of every race on a nightly basis by a hard-nosed competitor like Bill Frye is something that I hold near and dear in my heart. Bill demands nothing but the best, and we (Kuntz & Company®) have been able to exceed his expectations for over 15 years now. That is something special in my book!”

Now almost 25 years since the company was founded, it would take a small novel to detail all of the accomplishments of Kuntz & Company® and their customers. The list of wins, records and championships include series with acronyms such as NHRA, SCCA, MARS, IHRA, NMRA and the list goes on and on.

Kuntz & Company® powered drag car

Jim Kuntz is quick to mention that his relationship with COMP Cams® has kept him at the forefront of quality and performance in an ever-changing market. He notes, “I can call the guys at COMP Cams® and give them a description of a custom product that I need. They never ask for more information than I am willing to share, and they always deliver above and beyond my expectations. My engines are only as good as the quality of the products that go into them, and I never have to worry about the integrity of the components that I purchase from COMP Cams®.”

For more information on Kuntz & Company® and their products, please visit them online at www.kuntzandcompany.com.

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