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The passenger car automakers are always competing to excel in vehicle characteristics related to passenger comfort and driveability aspects. The engine calibration is a theoretical and experimental procedure with the intention to extract maximum efficiency from the engine and guarantee satisfactory levels of driving for both conventional and racing cars. This paper describes the calibration procedure of a Formula SAE race car engine. The engine was a four cylinder 600 cm3 four-strokes with modified intake and exhaust systems, controlled by an engine control unit (Motec M800 ECU). These engines present optimized characteristics for high speed, in exchange for some combustion degradation in some specific operating conditions at low speed that may impair vehicle driveability. Therefore, good tip-in reaction and the progression of the torque delivery are fundamental criteria to increase the vehicle performance, specially, to those submitted to short acceleration distances.