i love the art of an engine and how therapeutic building one is. the muscle memory of knowing your tools, the feel of your mics, and the smell of a machine shop. the smile and giggles u get hearing it for the first time. i built bug engines to Dodges and they all made me feel 16 again hear my first engine build. thank for your time sir, making videos is time consuming. again thank u.
Everything about a Hemi is just beautiful. Amazing. And I have to say it’s reassuring to see a total expert struggle a little with the Chrysler main seal bridge side seals. I’ve done it on a stock 440 in my garage, in the car, without a lift. Loads of fun and I practically didn’t sleep the night before I was going to do it. But 28 years later, she still holds oil! That was back with the old felt-like side seals.
Its amazing to see what modern CAD and CNC has done to an engine that was designed 60 years ago. The thing is am absolute piece of art to look at. Amazing !.
Your SMX and SML as well as the Noonan stuff is just amazing high horsepower artwork! Really enjoy all of the information you put out in the videos Steve!
they are pretty but also even OEM used parts are 2k and up aka $$$ super expensive, not sure 🤔why vs 440-platform $$ as it's cousin but compared with a big block Chevy'$ wow mopar has a tax on the top-end parts to bad most are covered up ( clear or glass isn't common but cool to see in side 👍 ) in the engine bay but at least K-valve cover's castings magnesium/crome per-1975 look nice 👍so sexy
Not to mention it shows your in real life it's not staged ect I love the real side hearing banging in the back is music to my ears personally and it tells me people are working which is sorely lacking in this day and age.
@@devinej8411 you sir couldn't be more correct. This country is goin to hell n a hand basket.... no one wants to work anymore just sit on couch and collect checks from gov't . Sad indeed
Love watching you go through the process of BUILDING a motor from scratch. I build vintage race engines, mostly old European V12s, and the dummy build, dismantle, machine, refit, test, final assemble, dyno ect process is the same. Attention to detail, and proper seat of the pants engineering. Would love to come work in your shop. Keep up the good work, all that billet is AWESOME .
Many years ago when I was building my first stroker engine and ran into clearance issues. So naturally I went and started reading every engine building book I owned looking for guidance on how much and how to do it (because what else do you do when you are in your early 20’s and it’s late at night while assembling an engine that is supposed to bolt together). That weekend I went racing with a buddy of mine who ran Super Comp at a NHRA Divisional Event. One of the guys he raced with in Super Comp with was good friends with Tom Martino who happened to stop by his trailer and Ken told Tom I had a question about engine clearance issues. Tom kindly listened to questions and asked me about my engine combination and told my camshaft was wrong and besides giving me lots of advice he also gave me new-used cam and set of lifters (that honestly looked brand new) that he said would work for my application much better. As for the along advice he gave me about clearance for the block and rods or heads for pushrods it was the exact same as what Steve just said if you have clearance you have clearance and you only need a gnats @ss more because if the connecting rod or pushrods flexes, grows or bows while the engine is running you got bigger fish to fry than your connecting rods or pushrods.
I'm pretty sure they don't do that because of heads getting decked. That work would throw that sealing surface off. Ores better to use right stuff instead
I think it says a LOT about the confidence Steve has in his own products and the enthusiasm that he has in general for the art of engine building that he's happy to make an hour long video showing him assembling somebody else's arguably competing product. And really not bad talking anything about it. Though I'm only halfway through :D :D :D
How far things have come in 50 years and the precision these engines are, Plus they are a thing of Beauty as well as making Huge amounts of Horsepower ,Just awesome Steve
The engineering and attention to detail that went into that engine is amazing. No stones left unturned. I found the timing gear on the crankshaft to be quite unique. I'd like to see more of that in a later video. Thanks for a look into a most impressive engine.
You can have a nice over head cam V8. Top Fuel guys proved that back in the day with the 427 SOHC cammer. They found the chain to be the weak link and set up a gear drive for them. It works great and the engines sound great with it.
Im in the UK, I m a regular mechanic, ive pulled the heads on one hemi (srt 300c) never even put a spanner to an LS engine. ive built and tuned an insane amount of 4v/cylinder engines. I always heard people refer to big bore v8 valves as dinner plates on sticks, but obviously never seen it in context. thank you for the videos.
Well, that hour just FLEW by. Steve, you are the most entertaining engine builder on the internet. BY FAR!!! Thanks for all the enthusiasm and smiles as you put these masterpieces together. So much fun to watch. 😃😃😃
the oiling system to the top- end to the rockers of that hemi is not to far off of the old 390 427 ford fe engines and wanted to say your content and skills are awesome and just watched the video of how you got your start and that was great and i agree need more old school machine shops that are becoming few and far between now but hats off to you great stuff!!!
The high-dollar engines that are bringing built nowadays are nothing more than a work of art. In 1991 I was twenty years old and i had a 540 cub inch engine built with aluminum block and heads. At the time I thought it couldn't get any better than that. Lol lol OK if you say so
Excellent episode a man of many skills finding out what doesn't work then makes improvement's. Thank you team Steve for posting all the great videos on your RU-vid channel .
For a second there I thought you were going to have to tear it down again, it's always damage during shipping or lost packages that delays builds it seems like, anyways that is one good looking engine, watching you systematically build engines is super cool, amazing work
Goin back rewatching some older videos and shouldve left this comment on the killa b video but its jist very cool the way you can just make things happen. You guys make it work, make it fit make it fast. And thats awesome.
Really enjoyed the tutorial on different cylinder head types. There was a company about 10 or so years ago called Coates that created something they called the Coates Spherical Rotary Valve system. It was supposedly near zero-drag with no valves. I'd have loved to see how that would have worked on a billet Hemi engine like this with almost no theoretical redline.
This got my inner mopar breathing heavily. And I will forever love the look and complexity of the hemi valvetrain no matter how unreliable. Those heads are works of art, if Picasso built an engine it would be a hemi forsure
Love learning about this I’m in the process of turning my S10 into a drag and drive vehicle now got old school sbc about 650 NA but fixing to go bigger one day I’ll have an SMX
For me, this is the epitome of state-of-the-ART; with an emphasis on art, as I think both the machinery and skills in putting it together are simply something amazing to behold. Imagine was Michelangelo, or DaVinci would say!!!!
just got my cam for my low deck mopar, wish i could have talked to you.900 bucks for a cam was allot of money but i believe in your asymmetrical lobe ideas and i want to rev this thing. Cant wait to put boost to it. thanks for getting it done!
They are and more dependable that's why otger shops use their stuff XRE uses Noonan and that's what Daddy Dave has in his new car and crybaby Justin just bought an XRE.
Man I appreciate what you do Steve! I’m from the sprint car world, so not much relates to my world. Lol, buy I finally know why we HAVE to have titanium valves! We constantly trying to break the tire loose, but with drive! All about them RPM’s brother!
Steve. I just want to say that I appreciate all of the information that you share so freely like you do. You are a legend. I love how much you do for the advancement of humanity!!!
Hey Steve, remember to turn the Lav mic on and off between takes so the battery doesn't die on ya. Noticed that the Lav mic died, and the camera mic quality kicked in at about the half way point. Us old deaf guys have a hard time understanding it... too many years of listening to loud motors! : D Great video... thanks for taking us along!
Don’t know if you planned it or not but it was cool seeing the head bolt pattern on your block in the background compared to the noonan block!!! You can see the round bolt pattern over the offset pattern of the noonan! It makes sense your block has a much better seal!!!
Anyone who has knowledge of what you do, understands you are in a “working shop” and noises goes along with it. I am still a working CNC Machinist for 42 yrs. I do not apologies for the noise, but do say sorry if you cannot hear me. I do now have those ‘kitty mics’ to filter out wind and some noise. Excellent vids!.
