Initial Registration Statement for Employee Benefit Plan (Form S-8)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2026

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Holley Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Holley Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Matthew Stevenson

Chief Executive Officer

1A Burton Hills Blvd, Suite 240

Nashville, TN 37215

(270) 782-2900

(Name, address and telephone number, including

area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

(Check one):

If an emerging growth company, indicated by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act ☐

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed by Holley Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company" or the "Registrant"), for the purpose of registering 5,000,000 additional shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Common Stock"), available for issuance under the Holley Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), as amended by the First Amendment. The Plan, as amended by the First Amendment, was approved by the Registrant's board of directors on March 16, 2026 and by the Registrant's stockholders on May 1, 2026. In accordance with General Instruction E on Form S-8, the contents of the Company's previously filed Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-259744) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on September 23, 2021, are hereby incorporated by reference herein to the extent not otherwise amended or superseded by the contents hereof. In accordance with the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

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PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

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the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 29, 2026, filed with the SEC on May 6, 2026;

All documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") (excluding any information deemed furnished and not filed pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of any current report on Form 8-K) subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold, or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained in this Registration Statement, in an amendment hereto or in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed amendment to this Registration Statement or in any document that also is incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.

* Filed herewith.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Nashville, State of Tennessee, on May 6, 2026.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Matthew Stevenson and Jesse Weaver, and each of them, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution, for them and in their name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his, her or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated below on May 6, 2026.

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