Going into the 2015 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge, the event was surrounded by unknowns. For the first time the competition was divided into five classes, each effectively representing a separate competition onto itself. Along with this came the need to declare a class winner each day. There was no room for error here, it had to go off like clockwork from the event staff, student assistants from our host facility, the University of Northwestern Ohio, and the competitors themselves. Each day had to include the full process that previously occurred over an entire week—preliminary tech inspection, mounting the engines to the dyno carts, dyno hook-up, running through the class competition, scoring, and finally the teardown tech verification to certify the class winner. There was a separate set of rules and…
