2003 Chi-Town Engine Teardown Competition.

Today, during the annual CarQuest World of Wheel show in McCormick Place, Chicago, we took part in the engine rebuild competition and won.
The job that takes normally 16 hours by the book took us over 39 minutes. About 8 minutes better then the next team. Of course we did not do every last procedure the rebuild calls for, some were dropped for safety (crank removal), other to shorten the times (only 2 pistons were extracted), but it was close enough the real thing. Also, we got a 30 second penelty for the dropped torque-wrench. There were couple of curve-balls thrown at us, such as the fact that you cannot lay down under the engine to work on the oil pan bolts (also for safety reasons). All team members performed superbly. I got a good quality digital video recorded.
This was a third win of our school in last 4 years the competition was conducted. We won mostly due to very good support of few dedicated LTI teachers and countless hours of practice. For last few months we were meeting at least 3 thimes a week and doing 2, or 3 rebuilds a day. Great experience, I got a jacket, a cap, a golden watch and some car accessories.

I am glad it is over and won, it was very taxing in the last few days.