Written By Steve Baur Photography by Eddie Maloney Four the last 4 years, Albuquerque, New Mexico's John Urist has whittled away at his S550 Mustang and turbocharged Coyote powerplant, and his efforts were recently well rewarded when he drove to the winner's circle at the 2020 Street Car Super Nationals at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. For Urist, whose Hellion Turbo company is ar...

Do you have a turbocharged Ford that just doesn't quite fit into any of the NMRA categories If so, we have a place for you and your vehicle in the Turbo Battle, sponsored by Hellion Turbo and hosted during the Nitto Tire NMRA Spring Break Shootout happening at Bradenton Motorsports Park February 27-March 1, 2020. It is a category designed to be a catchall, heads-up eliminator where the major requ...

Written By Ainsley Jacobs The closer you get to the finish line, the more exciting things get and such is the case for multi-time NMRA champion Frank Varela of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as he draws closer to completion on his new NMRA/NMCA VP Racing Fuels/Mickey Thompson Street Outlaw entry. Varela, who has been a staple in the NMRA and NMCA world pretty much since the beginning of time, has ...

If you have spent any time racing heads-up in any form of street-legal drag racing then you've heard the same tune turbos mess up everything! Well, NMRA is fixing that problem by creating a category that is strictly for turbocharged Fords, we are calling the Turbo Battle, and Hellion Turbo is sponsoring it. The category is very simple, bring a Ford vehicle that is powered by a small...

The Coyote takeover of the Ford street legal market is nearly complete and leading the charge are the turbocharged Mustangs. NMRA and Keystone Automotive are pleased to announce that it will continue to showcase some of the wildest and baddest turbocharged modern Mustangs on the planet. Sponsored by Hellion Turbo, the Turbo Coyote Shootout boosts into action March 1-4, 2018, during the 24th Annu...

It was just a three short years ago when Justin Burcham and Frank Yee lined up against each other to close out the 2014 Nitto Tire NMRA All-Ford World Finals. Both racers stood on top of their respective categories, Burcham won the Hellion Turbo Coyote Shootout, while Yee was the victor in VMP Performance Terminator vs. GT500 Shootout. They put on a memorable show for the fans as Yee returned to L...

This has been the scene for the past few days at Route 66 Raceway as they prepare for three days of excessive drag racing. On the left is Tyler Crossnoe of the Dream Team Traction Consulting and on the right is Kurt Johnson of Total Venue Concepts. They have scraped and washed the starting line and will begin dragging and spraying as hundreds of competitors are filing into the pits for the 11th An...