Company profile

Autoshop Racing Engines occupies a 4000 square foot building in beautiful Orlando Florida.

The business is owned and operated by Birgitta Bergqvist. 

It started back in 1974  in Sweden with a 1966 Chevy Nova Lennart  built in a small garage.  The car was used for street racing duels as soon as the snow melted after the long winters.

From there, the passion for racing and performance was leading in to the first hard core Speed Shop in northern  Sweden where racers from all over the country went to have their engines built and cylinder heads ported.
In 1985 a decision was made to move from the long and cold winters  to sunny Florida.    
Today we operate an successful engine building  and performance parts business in Orlando, with state of the art machinery including  computerized engine Dyno and cylinder head flow bench.


With over 30 years in the engine building business we have learned  that there is no substitute for quality parts and attention to detail. 
The best testimonials is from our customers, who have won championships and set records in NHRA,   IHRA,  European drag racing, Road racing and street racing.

Our customers have set the SCCA GT1 road racing track record at Sebring Raceway,  qualified for the toughest of all of drag racing, NHRA and IHRA Pro Stock, set comp eliminator records and won championships and made the first ever small block 8 second street legal quarter mile runs.

1984 Santa Pod World street finals winner 

1990 NHRA Gatornationals Pro Stock first round.
 

1997 NHRA Div.2 Super Gas champion

2000 Rockingham Modified winners circle 
and C/A record holder

2003 World finals Pro Stock qualifying top speed

2005 winner of the Popular Hot Rodding Engine Masters Challenge

Our small block 5 speed stick shift  C/Altered Competition eliminator Olds Cutlass is used for research and development.  
Power is from a normally aspirated 357ci small block Chevy Lennart built completely in house including all the cylinder head port work and in house custom built tunnel ram manifold. The car has run a best of 7.452 @ 182.3 mph in the NHRA C/A legal weight of 2330 lbs.
You think you are fast! Try build a Comp eliminator. Many have been humbled in a minute.

Lennart and Birgitta between rounds at the races.

Larry Ericksmoen has been a customer for 10 years and has won 3 NHRA championships using Autoshop Racing engines power plants in all of them.   
Current car is a Super Comp dragster with our  509ci BB Chevy that has run a best of 7.80@168mph

"The motors that I have  received from Lennart has been fast and super reliable.
Living in Florida we race all year long, usually making 450 seven second runs each season. With this kind of dependability we have the confidence to travel to races all over the country and pay hundreds of dollars in entry fees without having a spare motor. We just haven't needed one! Take my advise, don't waste your money on an assembly line built mail order engine, get Lennart to personally build you a motor you can trust to put you in the final round many times."
Larry Ericksmoen.