Kauffman Racing Equipment is a family-started, -owned and -still operated business of down-to-earth pure Pontiac hobbyists.

Pontiacs have been in our blood for many generations. What started back with our great grandfather has trickled down to us. Dad and our uncle grew up right in the middle of the muscle car era, and between the two, they owned many hot rods, modified them, and even did some racing.

We got the Pontiac bug in the late 80's with the purchase of a 1967 GTO. Soon after that, we and several extended family members purchased and restored seven Pontiac hot rods that we would attend different racing events with. Jeff caught the full racing bug in the early 90's and built a rear engine dragster from scratch and in short order started down the path of working on performance engines for the family. Word got out and that quickly turned into a small side business. By the mid 90's, Kauffman Racing Equipment was born: a building was built to work from, a Super Flow dyno and whole lot of equipment was purchased, and we began building some very stout Pontiac engines for the time. Business grew fairly fast with advertising, event sponsorships and just plain showing up at race tracks with really fast Pontiacs.

We purchased our first five-axis CNC machine in 2001 to machine small parts, port cylinder heads and eventually machine our own heads. A few years later in 2003, we manufactured our first cylinder head and continued to add on equipment and patterns to produce more performance engine parts. Currently, we have eight CNC machines in-house that have helped us make two water-jacketed cast blocks, three solid billet blocks, four different water-jacketed cylinder heads, five different solid billet heads, four intake manifolds, timing covers, oil filter housings and a slew of miscellaneous small parts. We've built hundreds of engines, made thousands of dyno pulls on street pump-gas engines that range from 400 to 1000 horsepower, race engines up to 1250 horsepower naturally aspirated gas up to 3600 horsepower on boosted alcohol engines. We've done it all and broken many records in the process and plan to continue. It's pretty cool to show up at events and see Pontiacs that have our parts on them. It's something that never gets old.

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