The man behind the Power!

Owner Dan Topliff has over 30 years of engine building experience. Dan’s interest in speed began at the tender age of four when his granddad introduced him to a knob marked with a T on the dash of his 1953 Chevy pickup. Dan’s understanding was the further out you pulled the knob, the faster you went.

A few years down the road Dan found the gas pedal and his same philosophy about the throttle knob applied to the gas pedal. It goes all the way down, no halfway or in between.

The family farm where Dan grew up became accustomed to the sights and sounds of a young man that liked to find out just how fast anything with wheels could go. The pastures and surrounding dirt roads were his testing grounds.

Eventually the country roads turned to pavement for tire burning, teenage street racing. From there it was on to the legal kind of drag racing, with Dan competing in his 1969 Z28 Camaro.

In the early 80’s he transitioned and settled into dirt track racing in the Late Model division, achieving numerous wins including a point championship at Thunder Hill Speedway in Mayetta, KS.

Through these many dedicated years, Dan has spent countless, untold hours diligently working to return the best reliability and power for the money from each engine he’s built for himself and his customers. He lives by the old racer’s lament:

Dan works hard to overcome these commonplace challenges in the engine building/performance industry. He believes in the best bang for your buck, but as Smokey Yunick liked to say: