JESUS 396



Lennart "Baker" Bergqvist was once the hardest working engine builder in the northern of Sweden.
Now he is the hardest working engine builder in Orlando, possibly in all of Florida.
He builds top notch engines for every possible application in all of motorsports. 812 ci monsters for
IHRA Pro Stock Drag Racing to circuit racing to boat racing to street racing and more...
His work makes Winners everywhere and has made high rank friends.
www.autoshop racing engines.com



Therefore, when calling Autoshop it is always Birgitta who answers. "Baker" is busy. She's also very busy
but is much better at pretending not to be, and much better to take care of our business. The revving
sound in the background is not always from the dyno room, it can be from Austin...


Got power? Austin plays around at his parents speedshop after school. He was Born in The U.S.A.

Following pictures in courtesy of Autoshop Racing Engines Advanced Jesus Paper Still Photos Department.


How the heathen was delivered to Autoshop from the Junkyard.
A modern 90's 350 LT1 from a Camaro, Firebird or Corvette.
Wash it, strip it and hone it (with a torque plate of course).


And here the block got a bit decked. Autoshop do all machinework
inhouse. To the right, the typical stroker clearance for the rods.



Modern GM LT1 comes only as 2-bolted (while the LT4 has 4-bolt main caps). Since the strength of a
4-bolt design is absolutely necessary for a supercharged engine, "Baker" used a full days work of
machine work only to fit a 4-bolt Pro Gram Engineering main caps kit. Then he line bored the new
set up and finally line honed.


Oliver 5.850" connecting rods are weighed and balanced, as well as the JE blower 4.030" pistons.
Then the pistons were treated with ceramic turbo coating on top to beat the heat.


File fitting of the rings for accurate ring gap - 0.26" top and second. "Baker" likes to take the time
with the rings... He believes they're very very very very important in every race engine set up.


New Callies 3.875" stroker crank in place. Because
of the short rods this one had to be balanced with
some mallory heavy metal.


The specially designed Comp Cam camshaft of course delivers
horsepower at 2500 to > 7000 rpm. But at 2000 rpm it's terrible, I often have great difficulties in staging/stalling at the strip and also in driving on the street.
"Do your record runs and then we can switch to another design
afterwards" says "Baker" Bergqvist.



To save some horsepower we deleted the stock waterpump drive of the camshaft and rely on the
electric driven Meziere water pump, which is not at all as effective but does the work. Barely.


Jesus meets the old dyno at Autoshop without the help from the supercharger, which is added in Sweden.

Note: this is without the ProCharger.
 


"The Wheel" in chromemoly from JW Performance Florida.

Much much more...but I need to sleep once in a while! =)