LEFT: Lingenfelter builds ASA engines in big quantities. We noticed them stacked everywhere around the shop and the lot.

BELOW LEFT: Steve Lambert does the final assembly for all engines. He looks a little sheepish here in front of a Viper V10 after we explained we were from CorvetteMagazine.com.

BELOW RIGHT: The largest part of the LPE shop is devoted to building Corvettes and other cars. Notice the street rod. In the center, the yellow C5 is getting one of the new Lingenfelter wide bodies.

    Strolling in the front door, Dyer met me in the office. A few steps later and we were in the machine shop, a beehive of clanging and whirring for crank balancing, block boring, block honing, cylinder head work, and valve jobs. As Tim prattled on with his machine shop talk, my eyes soaked in the scene. This was the nuts and bolts of the operation, I figured. Then, the more I

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