CJY SPONSORS ANDY JENSEN’S 7 SECOND STREET LEGAL 67 CORVETTE & LOW 6 SECOND TORBO 64 VETTE

By the time he turned 16, the need to build a racecar of his own was finally fulfilled. He purchased a 1968 Camaro and built his first engine, which promptly blew up before leaving the garage. (He has since learned a great deal about engine oiling). From that point on, it has been a constantly rising learning curve. Whenever he could scrape together some cash, it went into a newer, faster engine for his car.

CJY sponsors Andy’s racing efforts. His racing team consists of a 1967 Corvette Pro Street car. This car originally started out with nitrous oxide and ran a best e.t. of 6.66 at 208 m.p.h. He has since removed the nitrous fogger and are running a naturally aspirated small block Chevy power plant, which in 2004 ran consistently in the 7.40’s at over 180 m.p.h. For 2005 Andy went to running a 481 c.i., naturally aspirated small block, that was designed specifically to run without nitrous.
Andy’s other racecar is a 1964 Corvette, powered by a single turbo-charged Chevy small block. These high tech, high horsepower cars are becoming very popular so Andy built one to figure out how to make them work. 2004 was his first year with this car. It ran a best e.t. of 6.28 at 218 M.P.H., and he weren’t even close with the tune-up.

In 1985, at age 20, Andy was working full-time in an industrial machine shop and part-time in an automotive machine shop. For 7 years he maintained this 2-job status, getting plenty of experience machining and building performance racing engines.

Andy gave up the part-time job in 1992, bought some equipment and opened his own engine shop. For the next 3 years the shop stayed part-time and produced a number of winning race engines, from Street Stocks to Late Models, even nitrous drag engines, one of which produced well over 1,000 hp (from 434 cu. in.), and pushed his 68 Camaro into the 7’s, making it the first small block street car to achieve such an outstanding performance.

On January 1, 1995 he gave up his full-time machinist job, bought more equipment (including a near-new Hines engine balance), and took on a partner, the late Tom Larnard who ran the parts counter. We were now a full-time operation and learning at an ever increasing pace.

Now, 20 years later, Jensen’s Engine Technologies is a very successful operation with a new 3,800 sq. ft. building and all of the equipment needed to build or rebuild engines from every aspect of the performance automotive field. At J.E.T. they build race engines for drag, oval, marine, and even mud boggers. They also build performance engines for street use and restorations. They can perform all automotive machine shop operations in house for race or stock jobs, all with a level of precision and craftsmanship that you will not find anywhere else at any price.