292 CHEVY POWER MODS 

I just sat here and smiled through this whole video

The fuel pump eccentric probably has the most aggressive ramp rate on that whole camshaft.

The visual effect of that Dominator is almost worth the power loss...almost. Can’t wait, for the boost!

I love these dump truck engines. It’s too bad aftermarket parts are so expensive. I’d love to build one for nostalgia, but nostalgia only goes as deep as your pockets with these.

It's awesome seeing all these weird engines that wouldnt normally be tested, Thanks again!!!

it's 5;43 am and i'm enjoying every second of this, sooo hungery for something diff. thanx rich!!!

The absolute madman! Can't wait to see this baby taking boost.

It' a quarter after 2 AM and I am watching you work on a 292 inline 6 ...

Please cam and springs before boost. You learned us Richard!

I keep thinking that 2bbl Holley is TBI every time it's shown. Nice looking carb.

His expressions are awesome!!! The excitement cannot be contained. It’s contagious!! Adding bigger carbs to that little whole is like fitting a dump truck through a mailbox. Not sure if it really utilized the upgraded carbs.

Me: Holy hell! Richard put a dominator on a 292. Richard: Hold my beer. We boosting this thing. Me: *drool*

Damn, that thing sounded great even in stock form.

I almost forgot that a Chevy 292 was the first engine I worked on with my father. We had a boat with twin engines. At the time I was 8 years old in 1988 and I remember handing my dad the wrenches so he didn't have to keep getting up and down in the boat. I remember him being very detailed and explaining to me how the cam and lifters work, and inturn lift the rocker arms which allow air in and out of the cylinder. I still remember him telling me the cam is the brain of the engine. Good times and good lessons taught.

This test is the most fun and intriguing test I've seen so far! I love the offbeat, the old school, the OTHEREST "Other Guys", lol.

Back in the 60`s many guys worked these things over and put them in a dragster and did pretty well..could always tell the sound from one of these..good for you bringing these back..

My first car was a 1975 camaro with a 250 6 cylinder (105 hp). I always wanted to do a 292 "truck motor" swap plus some bolt-on HP stuff. Never did, so now, 40 years later...I'll know....

This live and current stuff is definitely more fun and interesting. Not that I don’t like the older stuff, there’s just more suspense and anticipation with these. Great job Richard!

I knew you would blow up quick man been here since 22k subs I’m like this guy will have 100k by the end of the year for sure

That intake has got to be choking the whole operation down... I'm sure there isn't one, but can you imagine this thing with 6 side draft webers?!

So glad to finally see someone working with a 292

Heh, dominator stayed in it's idle circuit😂

Back in the early 70's there was a guy in the town i grew up in that had a 69 nova 4 door ,originally had a 250 six in it,he added all the clifford speed parts to it,it was fast. All the while he was building a bored out 292 six,that had high compression small block chevy pistons in it,cammed,ported head ( long before Sissel invented the lump port mod ) headers and 4 barrel. This car was the ultimate sleeper ! Surprised many a v8 muscle car.

5 a.m. in western ky. I've been eagerly awaiting this 💖👍🏻

Down here in Au we used to have a smaller version of the engine 186 - 202CU. They used to respond well to a bigger cam, and headers. Triple webbers and port head, an insert in the Siamese intake ports. They would rev all day to 7K.

Wonder how many car salesman talked this engine up calling it "THE BIG SIX" I heard it plenty back in the day, It's Basically saying this is the "no not the small terd this is the BIG TERD! I swapped a Qjet onto a Chrysler 2.2 in an old Dakota that had a bad electronic carb with 5" tall homemade adapter nicknamed the "Funnel Ram" and it ran beautiful on those lill primarys if you fanned the throttle fast enough then peg it you could get enough fuel in it to take allll four barrels and man BZZZZZ that old tierd 2.2 sounded like it was going to the moon with actual some Qjet moan! it was great lol, scary part was standing there as far from it as you can while still holding the throttle linkage. Main motivater was all the people saying you can't do that... Wanna bet! That crude adapter is still kicking around.

We built one for our roundy round dirt 40 Mercury. 1972 I was 16. If I remember correctly Honest Charley had the camshaft and Weiand intake. Hedman headers and a Rochester 2gc throated, polished and jetted. That long rod beast ran 7 grand all night. We got the roll over trophy!

This is a truly fun experiment. The 2 barrel upgrade is still choked down by the manifold, but had the best usability IMHO. Would love to see a cam upgrade and intake. Thanks for sharing.

When your intake manifold is the restriction, not the carb.

Really enjoying these tests, can't wait to see where this ends up!

I'm honestly shocked that the 4-barrel Brawler worked as well as it did. Didn't expect a carb that big to play nice with such a mild engine.

Man. That was fun! Thanks for taking the time to share all this, and a special thanks for taking the time to put the big dominator on it. Doing it just for shits and giggles, because I think we all know the small hole in the top of the intake was a bottle neck, but just being a dominator makes it AWESOMER!

My grandad was a big fan of that Chevy 6 cylinder series. Everything he had was run stock. They weren’t fast, but they were reliable. Because he lived in a rural area, he put a truck flywheel on a 250 in a 67 Impala with a 3 Speed stick. It wouldn’t rev very fast but it sure would get going without much gas and creep along fairly well thru the mud. The rest of the car didn’t last as long as the motor. Imagine what a that 6 would do with better breathing and cam. Great video!

Next for "The Other Guys" Jeep 4.0 straight 6 I want to see the turbo on that! Freiburger would be all in.

Hey Richard, in Brazil this is kind of a "flagship" engine. hundreds of thousands were made, but mostly the smaller brother, the 250cid. We use to make a stroker, with a 292 crank, and 4" pistons, on a lighter 250" block, a nice engine, over 300 cid. If you have some time to spare, search for "opala" and "drag racing brasil". there is a bunch of this engines putting out 4 digits of power, and running in the low 7´s (!) in the 1/4 mile, stock block and stock iron heads. we also used to have, in the 70´s 80´s and 90´s the stock car circuit racing, with opalas and 250cid NA, triple weber carbs. Very good to see this engines here with you! Just a reminder, this boys DO like boost A LOT!

I find myself laughing and strangely amused at testing of the 292. I've got a 67 C20, w/292 and granny 4 spd. We call her big sister and she'll pull a house down.

I loved these on an overdrive and 2.73 rear. I still call it a legend in my own 1980s mind. this engine here taught me the 305 v8 is not even a boat anchor. cool series you have here.

I don’t think Richard sleeps

Richard, aluded to Clifford and other intakes. I would have loved to seen a 4 bbl intake tested on this car vs the stock 1 bbl one that was used, as well as a couple of cams as well. to show the difference in power. Boost is going to be wasted with the 1 bbl intake, because if it doesn't have enough flow for the dominator carb, it can't handle boost either.

Top of the Mornin Rich

Love that exhaust, i like this vid before even watching it! Apreceate all the effort into making this all work, cleaning old carbs and...

I would really like to see what he could do with the last gen of the 2.5l iron duke 4 banger. They are really reliable in stock form. They did make some aftermarket parts for them as they were in fieros aswell. Thumbs up so rich can see!

Definitely one of my favorite videos so far!

Your testing is awesome. I like seeing the progress as you overcome obstacles. Keep it up

My take away. The one hole intake is the restriction. Header, 4 barrel intake, Holley 750 vacuum secondary in my Monte SS would make a bit more power and be half the weight of the 305. Seeing the look on people's face at the car show. Priceless.

My 292 has had a few mods. 1. I have 3 Weber progressive 2 barrel carbs, total 675 cfm mounted on home made tubular manifolds. 2. The head has been modified with lump ports in the 3 intake ports. 3.The forced induction is a home made air box fed air from a blower (ex Grand National) 4. The head has been given a full porting and relief job. The engine has alot of balls. It originally came from a 51 chev pick up. The truck is not the greatest, it is my test bed for the engine. The engine wase your average inline 6, not a tire burner at all. Now, the truck is crazy off the line. I have no idea what horsepower its making, but its a lot, twisted the frame of the pickup, which wasnt the best anyway. Really happy with the engine. Plan to put it in the deuce i am building, should be interesting.

Very interesting! I'm impressed by the gains of the 2 barrel Holley........this may be a mod I will do on my 77 AMC 232 Inline 6

Cool , now do aFord 300 straight 6 ! Its still an over square engine which is cool too

You said it well in the outro, Camshaft, head, rebuild. More power NA is more power under boost. Love the work man, keep it up.

You are completely demented Richard and I mean that in the most positive possible way. Keep up the good work!!!

A friend of mine ran a 292 with fuel injection cobbled together from a Buick . This was late 60s early 70s at Manassus Va and 75 80 Dragway. In a 1200 lb altered it ran 10.30 @134 in the 1/4.

If I'm thinking correctly, the little flapper valve in the intake is activated by a heat-expansion element sort of like a carburetor choke. Its open when the engine is cold to and closes when its hot to help warm up the engine quicker because engines are less emissions efficient when cold than they are warm.

Thanks Richard. Love your work! 👍

Thank you soooo much for sharing this project..im loving it!

It would be awesome to see some testing on the mopar 225 slant six. Or the ford 300 online six.

Great episode throw on a few different manifolds to suit the carb's

I love it! This thing is begging for more intake manifold and camshaft. I am curious how it takes boost though. I've been pitching boost on a friend's '65 Mustang fasty with 200 I6. I think it could be a 250-300hp engine easy with some blow through boost. Add some basic suspension upgrades, brakes, tires, and it'd be a lot of fun!

Dude, I love your freaking videos...😂

Can’t wait to see you do this to a ford 300 i6 and then boosting it 🤘

Love these "Other Guys" vids!! Thank you!!

does westech just let you like run this place at 3 in the morning alone lol

Forgive me, but the most interesting, and exciting parts of this video were, seeing Richard with and without Meth!

Very unique channel. Not many people on this planet spend as much time on the other guys and show it for all to see. 👍

Rich, you ever mess with Smokey's hot vapor deal. All those carbs an turbos hanging around. Cooler is "better" but more than few will say oh chit ! to the hot vapor.

One of my favorite motors!

Can’t wait for boost, lots of it! Thanks, Richard!

And this is why your awesome you get excited just like me ha ha ha ha. And I think there is not enough air flow but we'll find out soon enough lol

Thanks for all your work on this! I always wondered how they would respond to mods.

Great video can't wail for the next one

She sounds sweet with the headers. I like all of your videos but I'm really enjoying this series. Something about taking an inefficient engine and making it better that is just freaking awesomesauce.

All the regular guys, "You can't make hp with a 292 Chev straight six." "Holdener, my beer." 158 hp is more that my SAE rated 1975 350 2bbl Malibu of 155 hp. lol Can't wait for the b oost.

Really do think. Somehow the westech gods smiled on you and let you have the shop. Unless you are working late late late night. But yeah. Boosts! 292 is near 300 and that's our favorite Ford tower of power!

I FREAKING LOVE you Richard ! You are my HERO !! Man you work you BALLS OFF to educate me !! THANK YOU

You should do a turbo setup on any motor. 1 draw threw carb and 1 blow threw carb. See what works the best.

In the present configuration, I think the addition of Chrome plated muffler bearings (even though you are not using mufflers) could have got this combo up into the 250 hp range and torque in the 300 ft lb range. The thing to watch is make sure the jetting is sufficient so that a lean condition does not turn the chrome blue. When that happens all gains are lost and you have to install new bearings! If you need some for future projects, I have a stash I can give you until I have a new batch made. Also, like mufflers, you can go too small or too big, but I can give you some pointers on what size to use. Until then, I enjoy your dyno work....keep it coming.

From the sublime to the ridiculous......bring it on!

I like watching the Dyno pulls in the new video

I swear your awesome. I learn so much from you.

Of course results would vary from using an actual 4 barrel performance intake over necking down to a single barrel one with an adapter. Also of course He knows this. Single barrel hole will screw up the signal, not just restrict. Fun to see a video for kicks

Seeing this stuff is so awesome. You rock man.

Love all of this!!

So basically, the 292 with the 500 cfm 2 bbl and headers is a good combination for running in basically stock trim. If it were me I'd be on the lookout for an Offenhauser intake manifold, or I'd look into what it would take for me to make my own. You could most likely take the manifold to a machine shop and see if they can replicate the factory flanges in aluminum or stainless for you, order some 90s and a 4 bbl flange off the internet, and weld em up. Still though, an Offenhauser intake would be sick to have. You DEFINITELY could use a high lift cam though...

I’d like to see one if those huge pro chargers put on a small engine.

Looking forward to what is in store tomorrow, it would be really cool to go all out and build some sort of monster out of this engine, I would love to see what they are capable of.

I really appreciate your video. Thanks

Cotton Perry is smiling right now holdener! Love it!

Got a stockish one on a 70dump truck we turned into a pickup. Swapped in a 1 ton axle and 53" tires the 292 does pull it up to 62 mph with the single berrel carb. Swapping in a 636 big block diesel cat. Then go 4wd with a solid axle up front aswell. The 292 will be dropped into something else. We ran it wide open for 3 days straight 10 hours a day on the old set up doing 60 mph on the interstate. We retro fitted some c10 headers and did an intank and did a in frame rebuild on it but that's it. They will run forever lol.

My uncle use to race strait 6`s in the 1960`s and 70`s on the dirt track.

13hp from a carb swap is huge. I have to assume that not just from airflow. If it was, that would mean even at wot there is like 3" of vacuum. The gains on the bottom end say its afr or mixture quality doing thism

Thanks for all the hard work you must be part owner of West Tech by now!

What was the smoke I was seeing? Rings a little loose? I love these tests on the old engines. Looking forward to you doing the 300 Ford Six soon!

Sounded better with the cast iron manifold. Love to see the aftermarket 2 outlet cast iron Felton manifold on this engine.

This is a wicked idea. There is sooooooooooo much potential in domestic inline sixes !!! I want to see the big four with mods like cams , intakes, stroker kits, boooooooooooooost !!!!!! I can only imagine what a Jeep 4.0 can do with 18 psi .....no one cares about a 2jz when you make 600 ftlbs of torque at 3500 rpm 👹😈🙉💩

Lol, answers to all the questions no one ever had. I felt obligated to watch the video anyway though, considering how much work you put into it. I did find it somewhat interesting, or maybe more *puzzling* than an anything else, that the four barrel made more power, while still breathing through that incredibly abrupt transition into the little one barrel intake office.

Loved the video. Just pitching in my two cents. I would have built a set up similar to the 53 Corvettes, dual carb, duel exhaust.

That was pretty cool Richard! I’m really enjoying the other guys.

Sounds like the 2jz. Kept waiting for the boost to come in. Gonna be nice with boost on it. I'd definitely do a spring and cam change to get it spin up to at least 7k rpm. Should be able to mimic all the mods that's traditionally done on the jz engine's

That’s gotta be the biggest water pump pulley on earth lol.

That thing sounds nice. Very interesting stuff for not even being a v8 or big power.. yet.

Still this guy is going places with the oddball setups and tunes