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Is hot-rodding going amateur? Inexact Motors thinks so and it’s launching a unfamiliar edge of crate motors, called E-Rod, that dated California’s stringent smog tests. It debuted the engines Tuesday at SEMA in a 1955 Chevy customized for the pretension. But enthusiasts don’t need to fear–the power is subdue there.

The fundamental E-Rod, the LS3, makes 430 hp and will bear an MSRP of $9,375. It’s on exchange contemporarily.

GM expects to extend the E-Rod range to other crate engines. The E-Rod LS3 is 6.2 liters and is rated at 424 lb-ft of torque. The glorious 1955 Chevrolet was an unexpected limelight getter at SEMA. It’s a 210 unequalled upfitted with Bel-Air in good. It has a striking silver and forest unsophisticated paint caper let out, swing components borrowed from the 2010 Camaro and an flawless interior topped rotten with a dull steering wheel. The Chevy was worked on “in the back corners of GM,” said Dave Ross, conniving styling supervisor of prominent builds and accessories. Plus, the brag car is a seemly driver, Ross said, featuring telling handling and a kindly ride. So why do a greener crate motor? “I’d to be accomplished to inspire all the builders old-fashioned there to look at this car as a new system for the days,” Ross said.