AMS Engines.com

AMS Engines: The First 100% self contained, 'all in house', performance machine shop, in Alberta. For over 20 years, we’ve provided champion engines for many of the local racing competitors in central Alberta. Numerous records, wins, and championships have been achieved with our engines in:
OVAL: Sprint Cars, Late Models, & Modified’s.
DRAG: NHRA/IHRA Super Stock, Stock, Super Street, Top Eliminator, IBAA, Box & No-Box.
JETBOATS: Unlimited, A, B, C, & FX-Class’s in local & world marathon races.
CASCAR, & the newly formed Canadian Tire NASCAR series.
Along with many other venues like: 100 ft Shootouts, Rally Racing, Road Course/Slalom Racing, Mud Boggs, Tractor Pulls & even Monster Trucks. Our in house machinery and skilled technicians have helped produce Nitro & Alcohol engines competitive on national series. Many of our engines have also seen success on National and International levels in all the above mentioned sports. We have been very fortunate to build engines for many world class race teams, and certainly can’t take ALL their achievements as our own. However, we can proudly state they achieved with our help.

The Shop:
Blocks: Our facility houses the most state of the art machinery and technicians available today. We have in operation a F65A Rottler CNC block machine capable of producing ‘better than factory’ engine blocks, and many other CNC custom machined products. We do block main line align boring including installation of splayed caps, block lightening, stroker clearances, lifter bushings, surfacing, boring, drilling, milling, & tapping. All these processes can be achieved within .0001 of an inch. Combined with our Computerized Diamond hone machine, and the ultimate block machinist, Brian Krishka; we offer blocks to our customers above and beyond many other shops capabilities.

Heads: With our in house computerized flow bench, valve spring tester, and porting equipment; we produce some of the most efficient combinations available for all venues of racing. Combined with the fine detailed efforts of Jordan Rachar and the infinite wisdom that surrounds him, we’ve been able to produce products that even the best have copied.

Cranks: With the addition of Philippe (Phil) Gravelle and his crank grinder/polisher in 2008; AMS upgraded to a ‘Full Facility, Self Sufficient’ Machining operation. Phil’s skill and accuracy is well known in the industry as simply the best. We’ve had relations with Phil for over 15 years previously with Alberta Engine Rebuilders, and before. We now can grind/polish stock & aftermarket cranks of ANY application, and perform some very eccentric custom grinds/polishes as well, including straightening. Combined with our Muti-Bal 2000 Computerized balancing machine, rod resize/bolt stretch/re-bush/piston pin sizing and custom ring filing; we produce the best rotating assembly’s available – balanced & ready to go.

Fabricating: As a performance shop in Canada; we’ve learned to adapt to the inability of getting custom products that are readily available in the U.S., and make our own. Utilizing the CNC machine, and the vast knowledge of all our employees; we’ve successfully fabricated spacers, pulleys, adaptors, brackets, and even complete manifolds and exhaust components. No new challenge seems to be too big as everyone is eager to team up and find the solution.

Assemble: Many of our projects are custom tailor made to our customer’s specific application. With that in mind, it’s not hard to see that every engine build is unique and different, making the jobs of Larry Miller and Andy Cormack as our assemblers ever so difficult. The only thing they commonly apply to every build is detail and accuracy. From street engine to all-out 1500+ H.P. engines, they build them all with equal quality and care.

Stuska Depac Engine Dyno: With Louie Bossio (Owner/Manager) at the helm of our dynometer machine, POWER is PROVEN! Many of our combinations are originally blue printed by Louie, so there couldn’t be a better person to try and squeeze every unit of Horse Power from our engines. Most AMS built engines are dyno tested and proven before they ever make it to a race car, taking away 1 equation of doubt for the race teams. ALL our dyno sessions are open to paying customers and their invited guests. It would be a very trying session of racing to equal what can be accomplished in a few hours on the dyno; it’s well worth the money, and we recommend it to everyone.

Parts: As mentioned above, many of our engines are custom designed. That means custom parts and components not available at your bumper to bumper or NAPA store. Because of this fact, we’ve had to fend for ourselves, buying and inventorying products not normally found here. We are a Warehouse Distributor for over 25 different performance product companies. Such as: A.E.D., BRODIX, CALLIES, COMP-CAMS, CP PISTONS, CROWER, DART, FEL-PRO, JOE GIBBS DRIVEN OIL, JE-SRP PISTONS, SCAT, TOTAL SEAL, and V.P. FUELS, just to name a few… With our ever expanding purchasing power growing, we’ve been able to purchase many other company’s at a very competitive cost. Making Jayson Thomas and Louie capable of purchasing over 500 different product lines, at affordable pricing and easily retrievable time frame. We have 2-3 shipments a week from the U.S., and are very acquainted with customs border crossing procedures and requirements. This makes life much easier for those who venture on their own and import products; let us deal with the hassle.

Tours: We love showing off our facility to all who walk in. Every staff member is familiar with everything in the building, and will answer any questions, whether seemingly dumb or incredibly challenging. All you have to do is ask, and we’ll pull you through the building in full hard working state.





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