Was it David vs. Goliath?
When the powers to be at Mopar Performance were trying to come up with a good way to introduce their new high performance small-block parts to the world they came up with a unique idea: Look for engine builders from different parts of the country, have them send in applications as to why they would like to be part of the contest and then call the builders they felt would represent Mopar well in the contest. One of the unique things Mopar did was to make the final decisions on engine builders and THEN they sent out the rules of the contest. The actual contest was more than a horsepower and torque contest. As a matter of fact that part of the dyno results was only 1/3 of the score. The other factors that made up the overall score were idle speed and vacuum and the third factor was retail cost of the parts used to build the engine. The premise of the competition was to reward the builder who could make the most power and at the same time maintain a “streetable” tune-up. To say these engin
