Center for Business & Industry to offer high performance engine building course

8-week course to be held at ATC, Oct. 19-Dec. 10

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 2, 2015) –The Center for Business & Industry (CBI) at Daytona State College presents an eight-week course in high performance engine building. Classes start

Monday, Oct. 19, and meet at the Advanced Technology College from 4 to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday, through Dec. 10. Seating is limited.

The course will be led by Gordon Johnstone, who has amassed more than 45 years of racing experience and worked for several years at Crane Cams in Daytona Beach. Johnstone has developed racing engines for different types of vehicles including drag cars, circle track cars, offshore powerboats and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Receiving ‘hands-on’ instruction in engine machining and assembly, this course is aimed at automotive enthusiasts, be it street rods, hot rods, late models, low-riders, modifieds, American muscle or tuners. Learn how to increase engine performance (student’s own engine), build a new engine or learn new skills using the college’s program engines.

Participants will learn how to: select and use the proper measuring tools; select the proper engine components for the results wanted to achieve; diagnose engine issues; modify and machine cylinder heads; bore, modify and machine cylinder blocks; recondition connecting rods; balance an engine; properly assemble an engine and more.

For more information about the course, contact Johnstone, (386) 506-4167 or JohnstGo@DaytonaState.edu.

The course fee is $750, payable in advance. To register for High Performance Engine Building, contact Joanne Parker at (386) 506-4224, or ParkerJ@DaytonaState.edu. The CBI accepts checks, credit cards (MasterCard, VISA), purchase orders or company billing for payment.

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