Racing and building fast engines has been a part of GARY BOX's life ever since he was a teenager.
As a junior at Westlake High School in 1970, at 16 years old, he built his first engine, a W30 400 ci motor; for his '66 442 Olds and it went 12.20's at the dragstrip. As the years went on, Gary became known for his string of '67 - 69 Camaros, all of which had big block motors, all of which were painted Black and all of which were "Bad to the Bone". During the 70's, while most hot rodders were still running their cars with the tires stuck out of the wheel wells, Box was one of the first in the Cleveland area to have a tubbed street car.
Engine performance building is the art of utilizing every possible trick to make an engine build horsepower and do it more efficiently.
Gary learned about the importance of air flow and head development at an early age from his father who worked at NASA. Today, GARY BOX is one of the few street performance engine builders who has a Flow bench at his shop, which he regularly uses to test cylinder heads for air flow. It's taught him - big is not necesarily better...... you can make a small block go just as fast as a big block.
Box has applied that technology to his '65 (Black) Corvette, which combines lots of horsepower in a street legal car. It not only picked up the first Ohio's Fastest Street Car honors (2001) winning the race with a 8:19 ET/166 mph; this year he set both ends of the track record for the fastest ET/MPH with a scorching 8:074 and 171 mph.
Box has numerous other wins under his belt including being a two time winner of the Car Craft Dyno Challenge contests in Ohio. He currenlty holds the track record at Norwalk for the fastest driven street car.
