Price Racing Team
Updated: Oct. 1, 2001

Priceless Too
The original race car is a 1971 Camaro driven by Jami J. (Price) Neu who won her first NHRA "wally" in the High School Race of Champions at the Division 7 ET Finals at Bakersfield, California in 1992. The car at that time was equipped with the original 307 cubic inch small block, a 350 tranny and 3:08 gears. It was running in the high 14 to low 15 second et's at that time. After that win, dad (Guy Price) decided it was time for Jami to step up a bit and a 350 was installed in the vehicle. The car now is equipped with a standard bore 350 Cubic inch motor with 11:1 TRW forged pistons, a Competition Cam's 280 cam, and Edlebrock Performer RPM manifold. Additionally, open chamber Chevrolet cast iron heads, Jet Hotted Hedman headers flow the exhaust through Flow-master mufflers and an MSD 6 ignition system (including a billet MSD distributor). Transmitting the power to the Richmond Geared 3:73 posi-trac 10 bolt rear-end is a "built" Von's Racing Automatics 350 transmission and a 3500 stall Continental converter. Compression is about 10:1 with Manley valves, Erson rockers and Crane stud girdles. The car's best run to date is 12.43 at 107 miles per hour! This car runs on pump gas and is street legal. It sports a full steel body except for the L-88 Fiberglass hood.  The original wiring harness has been replaced with  Painless Wiring and cooling is provided by a Weind racing water pump and electric fan.  The car weighs in, with driver, at 3,290 pounds!  Keeping the car straight on the track are Goodyear front runners mounted on Cragar  wheels and traction is provided by Hoosier Quick Time Pro D.O.T. approved tires.  A Holley "blue" pump fuels a 650 Holley "double pumper" from the stock fuel tank.  This race car is called "Priceless Too!" In early 1999 this car  received the "Priceless One" Camaro "look" with a new "deep freeze" white paint job with pink rally stripes wrapping around the L-88 hood center section and down the trunk lid.  The original interior has been reupholstered in gray and pink (She's a "Shirley" fan, can you tell?)!

Priceless One Again
The second addition to the Price Racing Team was the purchase of a 1972 Rally Sport Camaro which Guy Price began racing after Jami turned 16 and began racing in 1990. The original "Priceless One" body was basically destroyed in a track accident on April Fools day, 2000 at Southwestern International Raceway in Tucson, AZ.  Another 1971 Camaro was purchased and after having Comp Chassis in Phoenix fabricate and install a round tube backhalf chassis and roll cage, the painstaking work began with son-on-law Joe Neu doing necessary body work in preparation for painting by Guy's brother-in-law Don Jolly.    This 563 HP small block was freshened up and the Camaro has provided Guy with a best et of 10.43 at 128 MPH!  This all steel car--except for L-88 hood with scoop--weighs in at 3,055 pounds with Guy aboard.  This "Priceless One" Camaro gets power from a 359 cubic inch (.060 bored 350) four bolt Chevy block, JE pistons, 6" Eagle rods, Chevy steel crank with power from a Comp Cam's 645 lift roller cam. Fuel and exhaust move through 2.125 intake valves and 1.625 exhaust valves in a pair of Canfield aluminum heads with Crower rockers, and fabricated stud girdles. Fuel is pumped from an 8-gallon Jazz fuel cell via a Mallory 140 electric pump to a Holley 850 "double pumper" atop an Edelbrock Super Victor  manifold. The ignition is a 7AL-2 system with an MSD billet distributor and crank trigger. An AFCO aluminum radiator  is used to cool the water utilizing a Weind electric water pump and an electric fan. A Shogun alternator provides "juice" to the batteries during races. Power is transmitted to the 5:14 Richmond Geared 9" Ford rear-end via a Von's Racing Automatics built powerglide with a Von's built tranny brake through a 5,000 stall Continental converter. Providing traction are 32"x14.5" Goodyear Eagles with Goodyear Eagle front runners mounted on Cragar wheels. Exhaust is through Jet Hotted Hedman headers which are left open for racing.  Lexan windows have been installed in the front and back windows. The "Priceless One Again" Camaro utilizes a Mega 400 Digital Delay box from Biondo and an ACD throttle stop to launch the vehicle.  Guy qualified number one at the 1998 ATSCO Nationals in Super Street with a first round victory running a 10.991 on the 10.99 index in his first and only national event.  "I built the car to run in the 10's because I like speed and I much prefer bracket racing over 'super class' racing because that's where my 'roots' are!" Guy says. He got his start drag racing back in 1957 when he raced his 4-door 1955 Chevy to a win at an NHRA sanctioned event. He has been racing, off and on. ever since then except for 10 years he was out side of Arizona serving as an editor for a national farm publication and as a president of a livestock consulting business, in Illinois and Oklahoma, respectively.  The "Priceless" Camaro look started when Guy painted his Rally Sport with the "deep freeze" white paint and wrapped the gold rally stripes around the raised area of the L-88 hood and scoop and down the trunk lid.  The "Priceless One" Camaro was one of the Super Chevy 2000 Editor's Choice awards presented at the Super Chevy Show that year, one week prior to its crash at Tucson. "Priceless One Again" is a "clone" of the original car with few exceptions.
 

The Hired Gun
The "Price Racing Hired Gun" 1972 Nova is piloted by the Price Racing Team "tranny man" Steve Von Ehrenkrook.  He began building transmissions for Guy and Jami in the mid 1990's at his "Von's Racing Automatics" shop in Peoria, AZ.  Steve has been involved in drag racing since his high school days and had raced at Beeline and Phoenix Raceway Park near Phoenix. Guy had put together, along with his former son-in-law, a 1970 half ton pickup.  When the marriage dissolved Guy ended up with the pickup and asked Steve to drive it. Without hesitation he said: "Yes!" That small block powered pickup ran mid-11 second ET's but was "like pushing a brick down the dragstrip."  In November of 1997 following a race in Tucson, Guy and Steve were on their way home late that night when Steve blew a rear tire on his tow vehicle and was unable to control the vehicle with the race truck on the trailer behind. Both trucks were destroyed in the accident. The trailer was salvaged and is used to tow the 1972 Nova today. Steve had the Nova stored at a friend's place.  The Nova was taken to Steve's home where he proceeded to install an Alston "back half" along with a ladder bar setup.  During the time the car was being built the motor was being rebuilt also. The block is a two bolt Chevy block converted to a four bolt and is bored .060 making it a 360 cu.in. motor.  The block has been filled for strengthening. A Chevy steel crank forces the domed TRW pistons up and down on 5.7" Eagle rods. Compression of 12.7 to 1 is built in cast iron 68 cc Chevrolet Bow Tie heads with cam power coming from a Competition Cam's 645 lift roller. Rockers are Erson and held in place with Crane stud girdle. This engine dynoed 542 HP when originally put together with an 850 Holley double pumper supplying the fuel on a Holley Strip Dominator manifold. The 850 has since been replaced by a "Flying Toilet" fuel injection system which is still being tuned but to date has picked et's up .4 over what they were with the carburetor on it. Steve's powerglide transmits the power to a 5:14 Moser gears, spool and axles. At present 31 x 15 Goodyear Eagles are used to stick the car to the track with Eagles also as front runners with all four tires on Cragar wheels. Best run to date has been in the low 10.60's at 128 MPH.  The car weighs about 2950 and it is estimated that it now puts out close to 600 HP with "Flying Toilet" utilizing alcohol as the fuel source. Fine tuning on the "Flying Toilet" and chassis setup should result in some low 10 second runs in the year 2002!

Desert Angel
The latest addition the the Price Racing team is Jami's daughter, Kayla, and her Desert Angel junior dragster. This chromolly chassised junior dragster is powered by an alcohol fueled Briggs and Straton engine that has run in the mid 11 second times full throttle by the previous owner.  Using a stop on the throttle so as to prevent full throttle, crew chief Joe Neu hopes to slow the car into the low 13 second area.  Kayla's debut was on October 19, 2001 with a 15 second pass and a great .509 light!  The first few passes have Kayla and her crew optimistic about the future of this 8 year old's future in drag racing.  For a review of Kayla's first night out on the drag strip go to the gallery and click on Kayla.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ENGINE BUILDING
Hi-Power Specialties of Chandler, Arizona has been responsible for the building of all of the motors used by the Price Racing Team since its inception in 1989. "The only motor that we have used that Terry Smith did not build was the original 307 motor in Jami's car," Guy said. "We have never had a motor that failed because of workmanship or selection of parts on the part of Hi-Power," he adds. Hi-Power Specialties is a performance engine building facility operated by Terry Smith and he builds numerous Winston West Nascar motors and performance boat motors as well as engines for Arizona Speed & Marine, a performance automotive industry in Chandler, Arizona specializing in tuned port injection systems.