Exotic American V8! 99% of People Have Never Seen this Engine (Wilkins Racing Engines' RY45) 

I really have enjoyed these exotic/nascar engine builds, plus they're American made 💪! I would like to see Nissan & Toyota V-8 builds to see how they measure up to our engines. Awesome video as usual & that 8500 rpm V8 sound is food for my soul!!!

“I’m going to shut up and let you listen”. 👍 Many other RU-vidrs could benefit from this!

Please,do not ever stop bringing us along. You bring the best every time

You don’t get enough credit for documenting these builds. This is an ART that these guys make look easy but hey, that’s why they’re the professionals! Thanks for sharing!

What a fabulous engine and builder. Bear in mind.....NON turbo/supercharged! Plus, he ended up with 25hp more than last build!!!!! That is a home run outta da ballpark increase. If Wilkin's wasn't an engine builder he would be a heart surgeon.

Nothing more exciting as seeing an natural aspirated engine making high numbers with restrictions. Wow these people are true masters of their craft. Great vid thank you

Nothing beats screaming V8 N/A power! The sound is glorious!

How could anybody get excited about Electric cars after hearing that sound ?

This isn't engine building, this is surgical engine building.

What a fantastic video. The engineering that has gone into these engines is the best I've seen in my 79 years. Having raced dirt tracks in the mid to late 60's. We had our engines balanced to 10k rpm before they would be installed in our cars. People who aren't involved directly with the cars really have no idea what is involved in the building of a race car from the ground up.

Wow !! This guy isn’t an engine builder, he’s an Artist. The attention to detail is far beyond anything I’ve ever seen or heard of. A Master.

The engineering that went into this engine design is jaw dropping. The valve Tower Oil squirters is amazing! A dry sump is and has always been my favorite engine builds!

That’s how an engine should sound

This was just amazing, Thanks to the engine building community for sharing and thanks Horsepower Monster for bringing it to us. Now I'm off to work on my car!

It’s truly an exotic American built motor.

That’s the thing about modification, tuning, and the LOVE in hearing the sound of an American V8 at 8500 rpm’s howling it’s way across a track: it sounds like FREEDOM. The pursuit of Happiness. I don’t CARE what the world might think of us. Nobody likes, the Big Dog.

Freakin' amazing!! Engine building as an art form.😉 I really like the scavenge pump mount on the oil pan.. greatly reduces the amount of oil line clutter, and the possibility of multiple points of failure in the oiling system. Every single part is purpose built.👍

One of the best competition engine preparation and assembly videos I have seen - and very well presented! You are an inspiration to anyone wanting to further their knowledge on this discipline. A big thanks to Wilkins Racing Engines for letting us in and sharing their AMAZING work. I will now source out your other videos! Thank you.

Absolutely awesome I am a Ford guy from the 60’s up. I am so impressed by this engine design. Wilkerson just perfectly complements the whole package. Congratulations to all.

I appreciate that wilkins allowed so much to be photographed, so we can "geek out" as you said.

I always love hearing a pushrod V8 revving its ass off, that thing is amazing. They don't even start that pull until 500 RPM after my engine would have scattered its rods all through that Dyno cell.

I really appreciate him letting you film this . He's got some fantastic ideas . That is one hell of a good engine

The attention to detail in this build is beautiful. And the tension tone meter is trick!

BLOWN AWAY...TY GUYS...I REMEMBER WHEN ROUSCH RACING FOUND 30 MORE HP...I WAS VERY EXCITED!!!! STILL AM!!!

I wanna say...Well Done for showing us the engine. I'm still alive and have seen it with my eyes, and I am delighted and respect the immense work done. THANKS!

I've seen just about every one of your videos and this was easily my favorite build. Absolutely beautiful work. I wish i could've watched every single bolt being put in!

Can't tell you how much I loved this video. This engine is incredible and a joy to watch the build and dyno of. Please keep them coming.

RY45 that is a Beautiful engine, you guys did a beautiful job on it, makes me proud. I have a 1940 Ford deluxe coupe would love that engine in it, thank you for the video!

This engine should be in a 67 mustang coupe in my garage. God that motor sounds like angels singing. My hat is off to wilkins for being one of the best engine builders alive.

I really liked and enjoyed watching the high end care and attention to detail during the assembly process---with 9 pages of specifications being written down and all the special/exotic tools used to check clearances, etc, during assembly means the engine was meticulously blue-printed and then some. Excellent job--I am very impressed.

Hey y'all, love this channel. Very cool to see the insane intelligence some guys out there have in building these engines of all different shapes and sizes. Please keep up the excellent content.

the sound the dirt tracker made, made me stay to take a peek

It is very pleasing seeing machinery deliberately refined to perfection from man's hands, eyes, ears and time.

Absolutely awe inspiring sound from that truck.

You always manage to come out with the most interesting build stories. This one is really something. Thanks!

After building Cup, All Pro and Truck series engines in the early 2000s it's cool seeing the FR9 and its big brother. When I stepped out was before the FR9 came to be, we ran the 9.2 Windsor style race blocks with C3 Yates heads while the other OEMs had moved forward to NASCAR specific engines - and we Still won more than our fair share. Ford Rules!

Pure excitement and awe seeing the innovations and detail to even the smallest detail and then the scream of this engine flexing it's Torque and Horsepower,,, music to my ears. Thank you I thoroughly enjoyed your filming of this build.

Thank you. Amazing engineering and attention to detail.

Awesome and then some, gotta love those American know how and attention to detail folks who make it all possible.

Impressed the guy is still after it with half his roof folded over. Man was not going to quit...

Music to my Ears!!! As an old Gearhead from the Sixties, Awesomeness

Awesome Awesome Awesome! Unreal what can be done with an engine today. Thank you for sharing this with us. It gave me a few new ideas to try next time I rebuild an engine.

About 15:00 - fiddling with the damn bifocals trying to line up the cam/crank timing marks! You young guys can laugh, but it'll happen to you, too!

The first time you were quiet and just let us listen to the engine my heart skipped a beat

American push rod Horse Power = Awesome....Thank very much....!

This is no enginebuilder, this is a engine artist! This engine sings beautifully. In comparison, The Veyron made a 1000hp with a quad turbo W16 engine. This is a NA V8! Eat that VW! This is how you build high power engines.

"A dome can reduce the speed of the flame front and reduce power". Thank you, oh god thank you for saying what I've been trying to explain to people for years about the overly hyped "Hemi" engines, and when I say Hemi I'm not exclusively talking about Chrysler's, I'm more specifically talking about the older Harley engines Knucklehead through Shovelhead (including the Ironhead Sportster). I build Harley engines and one thing I'm always trying to get across to people who find out that those older engine's are actually Hemi's is that trying to build one that'll keep up with an Evolution or later engine is a waste of time and money, you'll NEVER get one to run like a canted valve engine that has flat top pistons with closed combustion chambers, which is essentially a Hemi with flat top pistons and closed chambers that create a squish band and a quench area, which is exactly what Chrysler has done with this latest generation of Hemi engines that's been around the past 18 years or so. When Chrysler announced that they were going to release a new generation of Hemi engines back then a friend of mine who's into cars came running into my bike shop all excited telling me about it, I immediately told him "There's no way it's going to be a true Hemi with pistons that have massive domes on the top like the 426 did, I can guarantee you that it'll have flat top pistons and closed chambers", he asked "Why wouldn't it have domed pistons and a true Hemi chamber in the head?" to which I immediately replied "They'll never get one to pass modern emissions standards", then he ask "Well why will they call it a Hemi?" and I explained "Because Chrysler has a trademark on the word Hemi when it's applied to engines, they can do whatever they want and call it a Hemi, they could make a Flathead engine and call it a Hemi if they wanted to". What people don't get is that where a Hemi engine really shines through and can't be beat as far as a 2 valve overhead valve design is when it's boosted like the massive Pratt&Whitney R2800 radial aircraft engines from WW2, like a modern Hemi powered rail dragster they have flat top pistons in them but still have the open dished out chamber, this gives you a very large volume at TDC of the compression stroke that can be packed full due to the high boost levels from supercharging. Where Chrysler really got onto Hemi engines was during WW2 when they were building aircraft engines under contract, that's why not long after the war they started releasing Hemi engines, Harley actually beat them on that one by 20 years or so and I'm thoroughly convinced the aircraft industry is where Harley got it from, if you look at a cylinder from a Knucklehead Harley engine (released in 1936) and then look at a cylinder from a Pratt&Whitney or Wright aircraft engine you'll see there isn't too much of a difference, except being normally aspirated the Harley engine like a Chrysler has to have that large dome on top of the piston to get enough compression to make it worthwhile, while the aircraft engines run flat top pistons because they run massive amounts of boost, they can actually run so much boost that they need a water/methanol injection system to keep the engine from shredding itself from detonation (engine knock). That's where the conundrum is with normally aspirated Hemi engines, if you want more compression then you need to have a taller dome on top of the piston which sticks further up inside the combustion chamber and blocks the flame front even more, and worse yet the more that dome sticks up into the combustion chamber the more prone it is to suffering from detonation causing you to pull timing out of the spark advance and then your starting to cancel out some of the added power from having more compression. Like I tell the guy's with older Harley's, no matter what you do someone with a later engine with closed chambers can have less work and money in their engine and they'll beat you every time, just do a dependable engine build that can run on pump gas and enjoy it for what it is, but if you want to go racing whether it's on a track or the street forget it, either get that out of your mind or by a later model Harley.

Sensible, practical, knowledgeable people designed this engine. Bravo!

AMERICAN V-8 engines deliver the iconic sound that all motor/gear heads expect to hear when they attend races that feature these killer engines. I expect to leave the event with buzzing/ringing ears.

Just ordered one of these engines for my daily driven 76 Maverick that has 120 thou miles and gets 18mpg, hope I can get almost 20mpg and 130 thou miles with this set-up!! I will keep everyone posted on my progress!

Blew my mind with...frequency meter to check belt tension! Makes sense though. Enjoyed the video.

Not that I need to be friends with you but NOTHING sounds better than a nicely tuned AMERICAN V8 showing what it can do. There is a great video of Rusty Wallace running a Mustang around a road course. I can listen to that engine whale all freaking day! He goes through the gears and the sound is gorgeous.

I love nascar style engines like this! A 7 liter NA race demon with 900 plus horses, and with OHV drivetrain too, no less! I would estimate that it can reach at least 1100 horses without restrictors in the TB and quad cam heads! Plus that sound is so iconic too!

Kickass build!!! Those are some sweet engines

I'd love to see what it can do without the restriction of the throttle body!

what, an absolutely functional piece of highly efficient art .even though the violence contained inside that masterfully crafted block, capped with those exquisite heads and the extra bits, that is how you make a vision reality. that is what the joy of a mans passion looks like in 3 dimensions.

Wow one bad ass motor and some bad ass engine builders!

a work of art

Wow!!!! I’m so tired I couldn’t keep my eyes open! But I had to watch this! I’m gonna watch it again tomorrow and give a comment worthy of this power monster! And the video! All I can say right now is the best you’ve done yet!! Awesome bud!!

Love these nascar style engine builds

I'll never forget the first time I heard the sound of an FR9 engine echoing through the grandstands as I walked from the parking lot towards the grandstands during Cup practice at Fontana California. That engine sound was more satisfying than Indy Cars during the Indy 500..

Nice piece,engineering work of art!!!

This is the best engine building channel on the web. Hands down. Compressed fire.

Love to see such a craftsman developing so much power And the flat torque line amazing

Excellent thank you for shutting up love that sound !

Excellent! Masterpiece level work🏁✔

I have a ry45 in my late model, heck of a engine

The sealed cam with its scavenger pump. Is a excellent idea! Reducing the demand for high pressure oil to it. For dedicated main bearing and piston Squirters. The cleaning of the rings to minimise the micro welding of deposits on the rings is something else! Never heard it done before! Then the harmonic belt tuner is something I use when setting belt tension on heavy duty drive belts. To aid longevity. The oil pump set up with ports, void of silicone with the vacuuming of the divided sump shows a high degree of tied and tested thought. The lifters and spring set up shoes a valve train dedicated to high revving longevity. Love the way he sets up the valve springs to maximise spring crush threshold. To reduce the harmonics!! This alone will work great in the high RPM range! Just brilliant precise applied ingenuity!! In all this engine is a marvel of the little attention to details. All brought together in a ingenious way! To add up to a masterpiece of high revving reliable long running power! I’ve watched this now 3 times! to take in all the brilliant designing and engineering ideas! Just nothing like it have I seen before! A true thoroughbred! And a marvellous masterpiece of hi tech engineering!!

I don't know the 1st thing about building racing engines. Yet, I just could NOT stop watching this video from start-to-finish, as your narration, the sounds of the engines covered, & the video quality effortlessly surpassed top notch quality in this amazing video! If Enzo Ferrari were still alive, he'd be 1st jealous, then very concerned at the mastery of this wonderful engine builder, & his immaculate discipline herein.

very cool bud, keep them coming. Great work!!!

Great commentator. He kept me engaged the whole video.

Harmony of power..could listen to it all day..

Wow, amazing craftmanship! I would love to see (and hear) this engine with ITB.

"I'm just going to shut up and let you listen" that's how you get me to subscribe. Thank you for the great content.

A wonderful expose on an amazing piece of hardware :) Though I 'm not surprised to see all that American grunt controlled with an Aussie ECU. The MoTeC systems electronics really are the best.

This is just precision at its finest . That crankshaft was polished like a fine Diamond !

If the sound of this thing doesn't give you shivers then you just don't care about engines.

That's a unit!!!

This is an amazing story watching the engine building. Ty 👍. It won't be long before free valve technology hits mainstream then you'll see even more gains.

wow, truly lives up to its hype, bravo America!

Just ran across this video, I enjoyed it very much. Loved the sound of that sreamin V8! Great tech and design coverage, minus the "exact specs". lol "Speed secrets" are definitely a thing in all racing, especially with engine builders. Like /Sub!

I like it. I like a lot of those features that engine has. Like the sealed off cam and how the water runs under the intake

we had the first 4 block number ry45 at Brian deegans. we ran them in pro 2 and pro 4. we were a factory ford team with Roush Yates building our engines and later Andy durham. that engine was a work of art! Everything and mean everything was better. our ry 45 410 made more power overall then our 436 d engine made also built at Yates. I actually turned the water manifold so the outlet was in the rear. the ford engineers were so upside down about that. it work perfect and was so nice for packaging. the power steering pump and alternator were in the way. still my favorite engine to date. great video

International builders - eat your heart out! American engineering is awesome!!

Way above my pay grade. Amazing!

What an engineering marvel.

Absolutely... amazing precision! Watching this man work was a delight, a journey. I have heard of Wilkins/Wilkens before, butt this was like stepping onto the Starship Enterprise! I want (1) or more! I cannot even imagine the price tag for one of these? I would surely want to sleep next to it?... Thank You so much for bringing this to us! J

I got goosebumps listening to that engine. I would so put that in my 38 ford pickup.

Awesome, i love the way he uses the torque wrench, the proper way . I would love this engine in a Australian Ford capri wth a 6spd sequential gearbox. Well done boys ☺👌😷

to me, this sounds like the scream of a Ferrari but the deepness of American v8s, and I love it, very interesting engine

Been a thrasher since 18. Am 63 now. Still learning. Really enjoyed this very informative build. Nice job guys. Wish I could be there to help.

Yes this guy really got there act togerther ..this motor has the power n performance that a true engine . thank u gentleman for a great class ..n your will get 100 % on my vote..thank u all n this was excite to see n hear it run n keep up with the top dog..great job u all deserve it thank u

This is an awesome video.

this is an allsome motor

Thanks for the great exposition of this amazing engine. Your presentation was very understandable.

Awesome info. So much new technology now!

Short course off road is racing's best kept secret - Robbie Gordon

Aorsome. Yes very much like a cleveland but perfected. Ford V8,s are just so right.

An INCREDIBLE ENGINE!!! Watched this several times! Really Appreciated it! Thank you, J

You make really good videos I drive past this shop all the time and had no idea what they had going on thank you