http://www.popularhotrodding.com/enginemasters/challenge/2005/
The Rules and Applications for the 2005 Jeg's Engine Masters Challenge are now available. Contestants have until the end of March to apply. Only 40 builders will be accepted (down 10 from years past). I wasn't sure if I'd apply this year since the stock market started the year down and shakey but has improved lately. Racing'...even just Engine Racin' can get expensive. I will be building another Ford in 2005. This year is the year of the big, big-block, 509ci. Weeee :) These should be some badass powerful mills. I gave young Jon Kaase a ring last week and he set a fire under my pants, getting me more excited about the adventure to come. I hope to use Super Cobra Jets like Kaase did in 2003, but it's not clear if these heads are legal at this time so I've emailed the rules committee in an attempt to get a ruling on them. Without SCJ's, the choices will be bleak. I find small blocks a lot easier to get power out of, simply because the after-market is so much larger. With Ford, Mustang racing is huge and that is all 302 and 351 performance products.
If accepted, I once again will blog my lips off, spewing the daily garage wrenching stories. The wife has a new digital cam and so bigger and bolder pictures will also be available. I probably won't start blogging until I find out if I am accepted or not.
My approach will be very similar to last year...run the computer sim to get an idea what cam to have made, then buy the components and test them on the dyno. This year I will not be chasing headers, but I will be chasing manifolds. My god is still the god of "flow". I want the best flowing heads and manifolds that I can find.
I emailed young Richard Holdener a week or two ago and sadly he will most likely pass on this year's contest. I hope to trade a few ideas and stories with John Beck as the contest draws near. Beck was the carb tuning ninja master at the last event and we both live in southern california. This contest gets tougher and tougher so it really helps to bounce ideas off friends. Team Crower and I love to argue about Extrude Hone...hee hee hee. The lads are anti-extrude where I am pro-extrude. I'm sure this debate will continue in 2005. ;)
Here are a couple links for the contest:
Rules
http://www.popularhotrodding.com/enginemasters/challenge/2005/0501em_rules/
Application
http://www.popularhotrodding.com/enginemasters/images/0501em_applica.pdf
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