Today, he remains engaged as a Pro Stock crew chief and also serves as a crew member of an off-shore racing team.
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He has served over twenty years as a professional crew chief, including winning 4 World Championships with 3 different Pro Stock teams, tuning the first Pro Stock cars to run in the 6.50’s, 6.40’s, 6.30’s and the 6.20’s and has been nominated and awarded Professional Crew Chief of the Year several times. More than an employee of one of the industry’s top players, Moore not only has a firm grasp on race engine development but also has been actively involved in drag racing competition. He also attended the University of Georgia, majoring in business classes. Though Jon Kaase’s technical acumen thrives at the heart of his company, he relies heavily on his Operations Manager, Cliff Moore, who plays a crucial and interlinked part of the Kaase story.Īn entrepreneurial type and engine builder with twenty-eight years’ tenure at the firm, Moore started college as an engineering student, incorporating CAD design and CNC programming. “Though it shows exceptional engine-building talent, it’s the innovative qualities I’ll remember.” “How about these dyno numbers,” asked Steve Dulcich during the 2015 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge? “Wouldn’t they leave any builder slack-jawed?” Hot Rod magazine’s senior writer Dulcich was commenting on Kaase’s unusual Ford Y-block entry. Both engine series continue to enjoy strong sales throughout the United States as well as down-under in the Australasia markets. In 2010 the P-38, a new high performance small-block series based on the Ford Windsor engine, was introduced. Later in 1998 he designed a purpose-built shop and moved his business to Winder, Georgia, from where the company operates today.Īround 2007, the firm expanded its operations into the hot rod market when they introduced the Kaase Boss Nine-a high performance engine series developed from Ford’s big-block 385-series and equipped with hemi cylinder heads. In November 1979 in Norcross, Georgia, he formed his own company, Jon Kaase Racing Engines. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia at the beginning of 1977 to work for Dyno Don Nicholson and by year end celebrated the move by claiming the NHRA Pro Stock title.
Jon Kaase earned a degree in mechanical engineering, created race engines that won a dozen Pro Stock championships, succeeded in winning the Engine Masters Challenge eight times, and has presided over the company that bears his name for almost 39 years.Ī dentist’s son, Kaase, 67, started competing in drag racing while still at high school in Cleveland, Ohio.
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