Drag racer Paul Carey of AERO Racing drives a Mazda RX-7 in the ‘Supercharged Outlaw’ class of ANDRA National Drag racing. The AERO Racing team uses an advanced quad-cam Toyota V8 engine to power the RX-7 down the 400m drag strip in less than 8 seconds.

During the 2008 season, reliability problems with the engine were not letting Paul and his team achieve the best performance from the car. The extreme pressures from the big supercharger were frequently splitting cylinder bores, leading to expensive and time consuming engine rebuilds – not to mention the loss of points in the competitive series.

Paul approached EL ES DE Engineering with a vision to develop a completely new engine block which could withstand the rigors of competition.

EL ES DE Engineering utilized its reverse engineering capabilities to perform a full survey of the existing engine block and then produce the complete CAD model ready for machining.

This whole process requires a large degree of precision and attention to detail to maintain the critical geometric tolerances required by this 1500 HP engine.

EL ES DE utilized Solidworks and Polyworks software for the entire reverse engineering process of the engine block.