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DYNO TESTED: 23 HOT ENGINE COMBOS
“With vintage iron, small- and big- blocks, and for the first time, nitrous oxide, the competition was nothing short of a three-ring circus” With four classes of competition, the 2016 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge brought out some of the widest variety of American muscle engines ever seen on the dyno. With vintage iron, small- and bigblocks, and for the first time, nitrous oxide, the competition was nothing short of a three-ring circus—with the seriousness of a noholds- barred competition. To recap, let’s review the competition classes.
THE CLASSES
We opened the competition with the Small-Block Shootout, pitting serious hot rod street-style engines. The caps here were a compression ratio maximum of 11.75:1, replacement heads, and cast manifolds. The class allowed carbs or EFI—and with wide-open cam rules, unlimited displacement, and…
