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Performance Racing Industry (July 2006)
Engine builder profile.
It's been quite a journey from northern Sweden to Orlando, Florida, but
Birgitta and Lennart Bergqvist's Autoshop
Racing Engines has made the transition just fine by servicing drag racers with
great attention to detail..................
Read the rest of this interesting 6 page story in the July issue of PRI
magazine.
MSD and Engine Master magazine
has put together a video of some of the Dyno pulls from 2005
Check it out here http://www.popularhotrodding.com/enginemasters/dynopulls/
Engine Masters Magazine (Spring 2006 issue)
Autoshop Racing Engines is on the cover of the spring 2006 issue of Engine
Masters Magazine!
Breaking the power barrier: 850hp On 91 Octane reads the headline.
On the newsstands now, get your copy and read all about it!
Popular Hot Rodding (March 2006 issue)
What does it take to bring home the gold in the Engine Masters challenge?
There is more than meet the eye. Check it out here:
http://popularhotrodding.com/tech/0603phr_emc/
Chevy High Performance (March 2006 issue)
2005 Jeg's Engine Masters Champions!
Street Rodder (March 2006 issue)
Engine Masters Crowns a new King and Queen!
Brodix (February 2006)
Brodix Dominated the Engine Masters Challenge!
Lennart Bergqvist says:
The Brodix oval port cylinder heads and manifold I chose for my winning
EMC Chevy
produced an awesome torque curve all the way from 2500 to 6500 rpm. My
509ci
big block Chevy made 620lbs torque @2500rpm, 756 lbs peak torque @4900rpm and
853hp @6500rpm
with air cleaner, mufflers and 91 octane pump gas.
Popular Hot Rodding (February 2006 issue)
A very good 20 page article. Check it out here:
http://popularhotrodding.com/events/0602phr_emc/index.html
Engine builder magazine (November 2005)
Engine Masters Challenge Champs Build For Max Horsepower On Pump
Gas
The 2005 "Jeg's Engine Masters Challenge" pitted 39
performance engine builders against themselves and each other to build
powerful yet "streetable" performance motors. When the roar of
the dynos faded, Orlando, FL's Lennart Bergqvist (Autoshop Racing
Engines) and wife Brigitta (a very capable wrench-turner in her own
right) collected a whopping $82,500 in prize money for their efforts. As
born in the minds of the editors of Popular Hot Rodding magazine in
2002, the idea was to establish a general set of parameters that would
typify a "street" engine - yet give engine builders sufficient
latitude to come up with unique solutions to the challenge at hand. The
contest organizers wanted to underscore the "streetability"
aspect, so instead of awarding the prize for peak horsepower, the
judging criteria called for a points system based on the average
horsepower over the range of 2,500 to 6,500 rpm, plus the average torque
reading.
www.engine-builder.com
Red Line Oil (November 2005)
Engine
Masters Champ Wins with Red Line Oil
AutoShop Racing Engines of Orlando, Florida Runs 20WT Race Oil to Ensure
Victory
Full Article
DTS in the News (November 2005)
THE 2005 JEG’S ENGINE MASTERS CHALLENGE THE CLOSEST AND MOST EXCITING EVER!
AUTOSHOP
RACING ENGINES WINS THE 2005 JEG’S ENGINE
MASTERS CHALLENGE
http://www.dtsdyno.com/news/jegs.htm
Taco Carburetors (November 2006)
Autoshop Racing Engines, thanks for letting Taco
Carburetors be apart of your impressive win!
Todd Basselgia, Taco Carburetors
Cruise News (November 2005)
Autoshop racing engines wins the
2005 jegs engine masters challenge
That was
certainly quite an honor for Autoshop Racing Engines, and brings with it
significant bragging rights, to be sure. Beating the best of the best is
always a huge accomplishment!
Not only did the Autoshop Racing Engines
duo of Lennart and Birgitta Bergqvist bring a very well planned out and meticulously
assembled combination in their big block509 Chevy, they also made the
right tuning choices to adapt it to the conditions and get the most out
of it on the engine dyno. In the end it all made the difference.
Jesel (November 2005)
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Comp Cams (october 2005)
COMP
Cams® And TCI® Master The Competition Again At
Annual Engine Masters Competition
COMP Cams® and TCI® equipped engines finish first and second in latest round of prestigious event
Once again COMP Cams® and TCI® Rattler® powered engines dominated the Engine Masters Challenge, as over forty competitors duked it out to become the “World Champion Engine Builder.” All four of the top finishing engines were outfitted with COMP Cams® camshafts, the top two with TCI® Rattler® engine absorbers. When it was over, Lennart and Birgitta Bergqvist (Autoshop Racing Engines), of Orlando, FL, took the top honors from two-time champion Jon Kaase, who finished fourth overall. The win by the Bergqvists was an amazing accomplishment for the Florida-based engine builders, who pushed their big block Chevrolet to new heights by making a peak of 850 horsepower with 91 octane pump gas.
Crane Cams (October 2005)
Lennart Bergqvist’s Winning Engine Masters Challenge
509” Chevy Pumped Out A Record 853 Peak HP Using Crane Gold-Race Wide-Body
Stud Rockers!
Last week, we told you about Orlando’s Lennart Bergqvist and his Engine
Masters Challenge winning big-block Chevy. We also noted that his engine
produced a best average horsepower of 599.33, with
these numbers being averaged across the “down-low” to “up high” dyno
tests. Now, we have further information that Lennart’s 509” Chevy also
pounded out an amazing 853 peak horsepower, best during the recent
Engine Masters competition! Lennart chose our Crane Cams Gold-Race
“Wide-Body,” extruded billet aluminum, stud mounted, full-roller rockers (Part
# 13763TR-16) for his winning engine and ran the competition without
using a stud girdle! Lennart and his wife Birgitta did a masterful job of
creating this surprising engine, running with only 11.5:1 compression, to handle
the competition requirement for “pump gas.” This certainly proves that this
same engine combination could be comfortably used in a serious street driven
vehicle application. Congratulations again to Lennart and Birgitta and the staff
at Autoshop Racing Engines in Orlando, Florida, (407 678-7705).
Eurodragster (October 2005)
Bergqvist the Engine Master.
11th October: 2005 Jegs Engine Masters Challenge winner, ex-pat Swede Lennart Bergqvist of Orlando's
Autoshop Racing Engines, says that the 2005 Challenge was the closest and most exciting in the event's five-year existence.
"Some competitors burned up their motors at home trying to overcome the obstacles to make power on 91 octane pump gas and keeping within the strict rules designed to keep the build-ups even", says Lennart. "This year the challenge was to build a 509 cubic inch Big Block and we decided to enter a Chevy.
"We made our dyno pulls early in the contest and set the standard for the power needed to qualify for the Friday's final. Our score of 1285.33 held up as the top score until two-time champion Jon Kaase ran. Everyone's eyes were glued to the scoreboard after John's pulls, and when his numbers came up a big "Wow" went trough the crowd. John had beaten our score by just 0.67 with a total of 1286.0.
"In the final we were scheduled to run next to last of the six finalists, and John was to run last. After the warm-up we decided to make a change to the valve lash to boost the compression a little, since the barometric pressure had dropped. We improved to an average of 1288 points.
"Now the pressure was on John. Could he match our power? John started his motor and made his warm up pulls, then looked at the data and went to work inside the dyno room. We knew he needed to improve but would he make the right calls? His final pulls started and the first pull was strong, maybe better than ours. The excitement was unbearable when he started his second pull. In the middle of the pull we could hear his motor lose some power, but it was hard to judge just how much. Then when John made his third and final pull his motor started detonating. He had gone too far in his tuning to try to keep up with us. Autoshop Racing Engines were the new Engine Masters Champion!
"Our peak horsepower was 853hp at 6500 rpm and peak torque was 756 lbs at 4900rpm with air cleaner, mufflers and regular pump gas."
We're sure that everyone will join Tog and Sharkman in congratulating Lennart and Birgita on their victory in the Engine Masters Challenge. Great job guys!
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