There's no need to "bake blocks", but there IS a need to heat up the entire engine to retorque the head studs after the 1st torqueing. Also, an oven wouldn't get a copper head gasket hot enough to properly anneal them. They need to get cherry red during the process, and an oven won't get them that hot. You basically need an open flame on them.
1320hp NA, 2250 @ 25lbs with conservative timing. I hope when it's ready to see the boat run. Great content, keep it coming. No false advertising here, I learn something from every video. Thanks Steve, Kyle and the rest of the team!
Beautiful work of art. I'm not into racing or engine building but I always walk away learning something from your videos and for that I am very grateful. Thank you. I came across your channel from that monster Haas machine that was damaged and here I am watching all of your videos :)
I used to work for a company that made airplane deicer trucks and some of the models had this system that used a hydraulically power ATI Procharger that looked about that size, but maybe larger, that pushed air down a nozzle to blow the ice off of planes. I was told that the blast of air could blow your feet right out from under you. They were really impressive. They had a cart with an engine at the other side of the shop, where they would break the Prochargers in before installing them in the cab on the boom. When they ran them in, it sounded like a jet engine running.
we have a Global and a vesta guard. never heard of a air deicer. that would solve the hassle of dealing with waste glycol every year thou. who makes them?
Love the video and just the knowledge bomb that is always dropped. To the basic mechanic to an engine builder you always have a great piece of advice to add. Keep up the great work!!!
@@darksu6947 I guess you've never heard of a Littlefield blower . Make all the fun you want . The setup won it's category at the world of wheels that year. 😊
Really I have to say Jaffa and the Toyota won't be coming back soon enough but it's still a little self conscious but I'm worried that the next car will have a good time and money for ice cream or something
That would be a little depressing to me but then again I do small engine stuff versus his big engines if I made 1600 horsepower I'd expect at least 3,700 at that boost level but there's probably factors that I'm not taking him that only apply to Big engines like on cars I don't know what his typical timing retard per pound of boost is I don't know the efficiency of the ProCharger so it's possible you're dead on
The problem is gonna be the procharger not being able to supply enough air to create 25lbs of boost . The biggest procharger usually goes on a 540ish cubic inch engine . That 900 inch engine is just gonna swallow that like nothing . It will make power that sounds crazy for only 10 or 15 lbs of boost . Remember boost number is just a restriction and that bbh doesn’t have much restriction .
@@minigpracing3068 That would have done it. Rolling and stamping copper sheet work hardens copper. So, all copper gaskets should be check for softness.
Annealing is a must. Every time you handle it, the copper is hardening, so we used to anneal copper gaskets immediately prior to installation. 😊 oven gloves to put it on the studs, immediately prior!
Cool Vid on the Big Black Hemi..! But, I Can Not Believe For as Long as You Have Been Building Engines You Never Anealed Copper Head Gaskets with an OnA Torch... 😮😮😮😮
It's probably too big of a surface to get a consistent heat on it and the gasket manufacturer probably knows a lot more about it than Steve. And if he misses a small area and then the owner torches the gasket Steve's gonna have to be like "well I tried to fix some messed up gaskets" In all reality this whole engine build seems like it was messed up 😂
@@austincassell4741 Its Not Hard, Its Not To Big, Racers have been Annealing Copper Head Gaskets At the Track For 60 Years. Soot it Up with Straight Acetylene, Then With a Rose Bud Bring in the Oyxgen and Burn off the Soot. Air Cool. It will be Dead Soft. A group of Racers Saw Garlits Doing This and He Accedently Drop it in a Mud Puddle, So A Group of Racers Started Doing the Same...😁
@@richardpauza2075 totally agree with this, watched my dad and grandfather do this all the time, i have a pretty awesome new school method using my lab heater box with some custom add ons:)
Seen a twin turbo 1005 CI Sonny’s. This will be cool. 3:49 Oh yea! Blasphemis Hemi has fought Finnegan every step of the way. So we are awash in how much trouble and white hair a Hemi can cause.
This startup and the second pull gave me the biggest smile. If I were to put this diamond of an engine in a boat, I would name it "The Lung" and give it "a brother" :)
1200 NA 3200 Boosted 🙏Been watching since I was in middle school and found out about the devel sixteen, love how interactive and informative your content is.
That engine looks awesome! Going go run hard all day I am sure. Bet it makes 1197 NA and 1854 boosted. Can't go to crazy since it will run higher throttle all day, not just a few seconds at a time. Would love to see the boat this thing is going in!
When you shown the big block cam in the journal like a hot dog in a hallway, all I could think of is “this is you, this is who she says not to worry about” aka the big black hemi
Have you thought of using a thermolator used in injection molding machines for heating the engines? They heat/cool water and circulate it through molds, one might be worth looking into for engines, could double as a leak down test for gaskets as well.
in diesels they cut the gasket back for the fire ring to seal the combustion chamber, or use a single "o-ring" in the head on top of the mls sealing surface.
Steve I used to build boxes to heat parts up, it helps heat up the item faster as it helps hold heat in and then you don’t have to direct it at the part as much. Might help with heats engines up faster and more evenly. Just an idea. Love the channel
That HEMI is one big black as mumba jumba of an Engine can't wait too see some numbers i hope we get too see this thing on the dyno let go an have a cup of tea
Do I think I will ever be able to afford a SM engine... Probably not. But I sure as hell love watching this man, and his team work. I love this channel 😁
Man, what a monster! When you showed that gasket after the head had been torqued on it, I pretty much guessed that gasket wasn't annealed properly to soften it up. We used to do dirt bike head gaskets like that, and had to take a torch to them until they turned colors and drop them in a pail of water. I'm guessing with a good tune, N/A, you'll be seeing around 1145 hp. and on 25 lbs. of boost, around 1615 hp., maybe a little more? Let's see how close I get.😄👍👍
If its ocean water cooled with a elevated saline content you can probably add a hair more timing because of reduced coolant temps. Im going 1198 NA and 2149 on 25lbs. 2275 in cool salt water
Hey you could have a little show called the Big Stony Steve Show. Coming to you your new Cali Cabbage speed shop in California. Your specialty would be VW bus and beetle racing. You could talk about your world record in stock modified of a 15 minute pass. In the 8th mile. Like wow man.
Great Video Steve, You may want to add a bridge reinforcement to the outside of the engine plate on the left side mount. Even a small gap that is not supported can be a stress riser you have done such great work on everything else why take the chance! just my opinion and i tend to "overbuild" for ultimate strength!
If you Dyno all your engines. Could you install a small water heater or boiler on your cooling system to warm up the engine for head torque and stabilize operations until it was producing heat on its own. Would be faster than heat guns. Manufacturers Testing Facilities have something similar. Thanks for the videos, Steve.
Building yourself an oil tank with a heater and circulation pump complete with secondary filtering oil inspection etc.. rig to pre heat soak engines might not warm up the shop as much as air heaters.
