The School of Automotive Machinists (SAM Tech) is revered in the industry for its advanced courses that equip the engine builders, machinists, tuner, and mechanics of tomorrow’s high performance industry with the tools and skills they need to succeed.
Among SAM Tech’s many courses on offer is its EFI Calibration program, which is intended to prepare students for entry into the world of high performance tuning, to calibrate and troubleshoot Engine Management Systems on the engine dynamometer, chassis dynamometer and at the racetrack. In the program, students learn how to add performance accessories, modify powertrains, tune custom engines, work with traction control and launch control, suspension, exhaust systems, and use dynamometers and other diagnostic equipment. Of course, part of any skilled tuners’ repertoire is the ability to set up and tune nitrous oxide systems, which is the most accessible and affordable form of power-adding.
SAM Tech, recognizing this need — and following on requests from its students and the marketplace — recently added a nitrous oxide tuning curriculum to the EFI Calibration program, utilizing its in-house 1957 Chevrolet as the testbed for students to gain hands-on experience. SAM Tech has long been known as a naturally-aspirated (N/A) engine school, focusing on the core fundamentals needed to extract horsepower out of the basic N/A engine. But SAM Tech’s Brian Massingill has spent the last decade working to grow and expand its curriculum to develop in-demand skills.
“The way that my dad [SAM Tech founder Judson Massingill] always looked at it was, the power-adder is increasing cubic inches … that’s it. Most people don’t have the machinery and the ability to go do the kind of work we do on an N/A engine. A nitrous kit for a few hundred or a thousand bucks, a person can understand and do that. We can run lines a lot easier than we can go bore and hone an engine. So this is about listening to what the market is dictating. As a tuner or calibrator, this is knowledge that you’ve got to have. But we also listened to our students, who were telling us they wanted to work on something with a turbocharger, something with nitrous oxide, with superchargers. And we probably wouldn’t be talking about our 1957 Chevy again if we weren’t putting nitrous on it. For us, it’s always about what is the new, next big thing? We’ve had this 525 horsepower car since 2015, and we did the intake manifold and picked up…
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