Manikin machine races are normally held on dirt tracks.
Diverse companies service the dwarf and modlite car markets. Specialist manufacturers build frames, body kits, rolling chassis and completely race-ready turnkey cars. Others stock car parts and accessories that can be adapted to dwarf car and modlite use.
Dwarf Car Racing
Manikin motorcar racing is taken seriously by its participants and fans, and as of Feb 2012 is most universal in Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas and Wyoming. In Colorado alone there are three formal racing associations, one Everyone for the northern, central and southern regions. The Colorado Club Mug Series is establish up so that Everyone competing club must evening every other club's homely track. In California, The California Manikin Van Racing Collection races from Feb complete Nov, and subscribes to an exhaustive establish of rules, procedures and points structures.
Modified glossy -- modlite -- competition cars are much the same. An evolution of Manikin cars, they are considered by racers to be the closest transaction up the eatable chain. Exceeding all-powerful and exceeding handling, modlites can be an entry into inventory and succession racing.Dwarf cars are open-wheel, coilover-suspension relay cars powered by motorcycle engines; the fame comes from their duration microscopic Sufficiently to fit in a pickup Bedstead for transport to races. The expression "Manikin machine" does not remit to the limited cars used by clowns to comedic development in circus routines. Manikin cars are sometimes referred to as "krotch-rockets" by racing insiders, however this locution is else recurrently used in connexion with high-performance street motorcycles.
Crutchfield Racing
Crutchfield Racing specializes in the building and racing of dwarf and modlite cars. It also sells many of the parts racers need To erect their own cars. Crutchfield Racing was started by Eddie Crutchfield in 1995; the founder was a racer who parlayed the building of his own cars into a business doing the same for others. The company is based in Chickamauga, Georgia.
The founder also operates Crutchfield Performance, a business that concentrates on the sales, upgrading and accessorizing Can-Am, Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki and Suzuki all-terrain vehicles. While the company sells OEM and aftermarket parts, in-house engineers concentrate on building shock absorbers that increase ground clearance without negatively affecting handling and ride performance.
Crutchfield Engines
Crutchfield Racing stocks a selection of fully built engines for use in dwarf and modlite cars. The range includes 1,200, 1,000, 750 and 600 cc. engines. The company's engineers also upgrade and refresh customer-owned engines, and both sells and installs kits that improve stock engines to "spec;" motors that are accurately remanufactured to the original blueprints, rather than running with regular mass-produced factory tolerances. A spec 1,000 cc. engine can produce in excess of 160 horsepower burning pump gasoline.
Other Crutchfield Parts
Crutchfield Racing also maintains a stock of non-engine parts for dwarf and modlite cars. It sells front-end parts, including full rack-and-pinion steering systems, tie rods, control arms, brakes, steering rods and strut rods. Rear-end parts include hub-axle kits, trailing arms and mounts and brake system parts. Crutchfield also stocks suspension parts, switch gear, pedals, nerf bars and fuel cells.
