Decking 343 Engine Block

After I made my pulls finishing 16 minutes early the person running the Engine Master came up to me and shook my hand saying I did exactly what the Engine Masters was all about and he was super excited. I gathered the papers for the 3 pulls I wanted to average for my score and crossed the hall way to record. As soon as I got in the room there was 3 students assisting and the one student in the center jumped out of his chair and said that was f@cking awesome!!!!! F@ck the proffesors and F@ck the students... I live fed the whole thing on FB and through the University students cut their classes to go outside and hear the AMC engine run... The engine sounded great and lifted the 10 inch dia. exhaust pipes right off the jackstands.... Only 3 engines have done that... So I said what is going on and he said the proffessors took their class of students by you for you to explain your build and when I listened to you it made sense how you were going to make the HP and expected.around 500 HP. The proffessor went back to class and told the students you were full of sh@t you would be lucky if you made 350 HP with that combination. So I thought to myself that is why the guy in charge of the challenge was so excited I proved everyone wrong. So this student was the only one who believed me  when he listened to me with his class tour and just rubbed it in their faces... I went up to the student who they called the Hulk and said where is the love.... did you think I was full of sh@t and he replied Jimmy everyone is full of sh@t but you proved us wrong. So the professor came to see me afterwards and said he was wrong along with he guess's he does not know what is going on in the real world... So I thought this would be a good time to ask him if I can bring engine one down to dyno and see if I could have beat Creason he rplied you are welcome anytime and the students would be glad to help... It was also very cool when the winner walked up and asked how much dyno time did you have..... I said enough time to jet the carb and make sure it did not eat bearings... He said that is damn good guys spend weeks testing for the challenge. Creason said now that I have seen everything  I will win after my 3rd time... The reason he said this is I got no reply when I asked what I could do. I also picked up on allot of how to get around obsticals legally... One thing is for sure Creason built 2.engines one with the thought Bigger is Better and one the way I think bigger is not better... He made 570.HP with his 1 5/8 headers and made.more power on average... When I asked Creason how.much testing he did he says he try's a new cam.almost every weekend just to see what it really does... Goes to show you testing is key... All I needed was more air to run the numbers the rest of the combo is good. Going smaller on cubes this time is also good thing...

I can tell you we earned some respect the whole shop came running in back to see the next pulls..... 

Kind of funny how Creason who won built 2 engines. One with bigger is better and one on the same page we are on... The one built on the same page made more power on average then the bigger is better. He made 530 HP with 1.4 ratio rockers and ended up with 1.9 ratio rockers making 570 HP running a cam with 104 LS.... Also for the big tube header guys Creason made this power with 1 5/8 headers... L.M.A.O.

I.M.O. Creason read my entry information on theorey because why would you build 2 engines... One bigger is better and one completely opposite...

When we compared notes I was making more HP per CFM then Creason so I can only think what would have happened if we ran engine 1?

Now I would like to go back and see... 

Great thread!

Good luck Jim I love reading this stuff.

Shawn

One thing I definitely need to explore is the "NHRA Stock Eliminator" rocker arm deal and a few cracked cylinder heads to stretch out.

Shawn