Written by Ainsley Jacobs
Photography by the Race Pages Staff
Falling just shy of securing the 2021 NMRA G-Force Racing Transmissions Coyote Stock championship title in second place overall, veteran NMRA racer Charlie Booze Jr. has vowed to hit it harder in 2022 with the entry he fields in collaboration with Scott Milhimes of Milhimes' Automotive.
“We got this car put together for 2021 and it went well, but we needed just one race to go better than it did,” noted Booze of the 1990 Ford Mustang coupe that earned a win in Michigan and a runner-up finish in Kentucky. With upwards of fifteen championship titles already on the books for the Booze Brothers Racing group, which includes Charlie and Brian Booze, the guys have a game plan in place and intend to move forward with purpose.
Owned by Milhimes, the men’s Fox-body entry has been fitted with the standard Coyote Stock combination. An LAT oil-filled 5.0-liter Gen 3 Coyote crate engine, fueled with VP Racing’s best via an Aeromotive system, was paired with a G-Force Transmissions G-101A four-speed manual gearbox. The engine itself was then fitted with a set of American Racing Headers exhaust manifolds which feed into a MagnaFlow exhaust system with custom BBR exits by Charlie who has “been bending pipe since ’85.”
A SPEC clutch, Wiles aluminum driveshaft, Strange Engineering rearend, AFCO shocks, UPR Products suspension parts and K-member, Energy Suspension mounts, and Mickey Thompson stickies all work together to ensure that the power being produced is used as efficiently as possible and put down to the ground without leaving anything on the table, while Strange front and rear brakes calm the car after each run.
“We’re hoping to unload in Florida [for the NMRA season opener at Bradenton Motorsports Park in March] and be just as good as we were last year,” shared Booze, who had run a personal best of 9.74-seconds in Coyote Stock, of his plans as Milhimes' wheelman.
At the 2021 World Cup Finals race in Maryland, the guys pulled 200-pounds of weight and ran an elapsed time of 9.38-seconds on Coyote Stock-legal fuel and with the class tune up in the sealed engine’s computer. A best 60-foot time of 1.25-seconds at that race certainly showed what the stick shift small tire car could do, and Booze plans to bring that same level of performance and preparedness to the NMRA.
“We started 2021 with a car I knew nothing about in mid-January, but we got a handle on it and had a great time overall,” added Booze, who was one of the original supporters of the NMRA G-Force Racing Transmissions Coyote Stock class in its infancy and has played a big role in developing it overall. “Our theme for 2022 will be momentum and consistency so we can get that title.”
Photography by the Race Pages Staff
Falling just shy of securing the 2021 NMRA G-Force Racing Transmissions Coyote Stock championship title in second place overall, veteran NMRA racer Charlie Booze Jr. has vowed to hit it harder in 2022 with the entry he fields in collaboration with Scott Milhimes of Milhimes' Automotive.
“We got this car put together for 2021 and it went well, but we needed just one race to go better than it did,” noted Booze of the 1990 Ford Mustang coupe that earned a win in Michigan and a runner-up finish in Kentucky. With upwards of fifteen championship titles already on the books for the Booze Brothers Racing group, which includes Charlie and Brian Booze, the guys have a game plan in place and intend to move forward with purpose.
Owned by Milhimes, the men’s Fox-body entry has been fitted with the standard Coyote Stock combination. An LAT oil-filled 5.0-liter Gen 3 Coyote crate engine, fueled with VP Racing’s best via an Aeromotive system, was paired with a G-Force Transmissions G-101A four-speed manual gearbox. The engine itself was then fitted with a set of American Racing Headers exhaust manifolds which feed into a MagnaFlow exhaust system with custom BBR exits by Charlie who has “been bending pipe since ’85.”
A SPEC clutch, Wiles aluminum driveshaft, Strange Engineering rearend, AFCO shocks, UPR Products suspension parts and K-member, Energy Suspension mounts, and Mickey Thompson stickies all work together to ensure that the power being produced is used as efficiently as possible and put down to the ground without leaving anything on the table, while Strange front and rear brakes calm the car after each run.
“We’re hoping to unload in Florida [for the NMRA season opener at Bradenton Motorsports Park in March] and be just as good as we were last year,” shared Booze, who had run a personal best of 9.74-seconds in Coyote Stock, of his plans as Milhimes' wheelman.
At the 2021 World Cup Finals race in Maryland, the guys pulled 200-pounds of weight and ran an elapsed time of 9.38-seconds on Coyote Stock-legal fuel and with the class tune up in the sealed engine’s computer. A best 60-foot time of 1.25-seconds at that race certainly showed what the stick shift small tire car could do, and Booze plans to bring that same level of performance and preparedness to the NMRA.
“We started 2021 with a car I knew nothing about in mid-January, but we got a handle on it and had a great time overall,” added Booze, who was one of the original supporters of the NMRA G-Force Racing Transmissions Coyote Stock class in its infancy and has played a big role in developing it overall. “Our theme for 2022 will be momentum and consistency so we can get that title.”