Incredible Twin Turbo Chevrolet Straight Six is a One-of-a-Kind Creation! 

It is impressive that this engine is putting out 588 ft pounds tq at 3700 rpm.

What kinda times did u turn in that Hemi in your B/MP class?

Powernation made a Ford 300 six and put a turbo on it and it made over 500 horsepower with just one turbo. Go check it out on there channel it's a white painted motor with turbo

How tragically ironic that with age , it is time that becomes the more precious resource.

What a great opportunity to get the knowledge made available 🙏🏼

No doubt

@@jamessharp9790 So true !

These inlines are so awesome. It's a shame that so many one offs have to be made.

Man you are absolutely right the man is a mastrr at what he does best and thats to create ,,my hat is off to him

I am amazed at his engine building skills and insight that he has.

Even in the old days the right work made those six's evil. Heard a story once a guy showed up with one to a circle track full of V8's. They ended up wrecking the guy out cause he was fucking charging up to the front like a bat out of hell.

@@jr540123 The GMC 302" ruled back in the day; add a Wayne head and you were good to go....

I was thinking the exact same thing

That's a I-6 for ya'. Smooth as silk FAT torque, brought to you by Chevrolet.

@@rgroove1970 That thing is wild. I've never seen a car bounce the front tires down the whole stretch and not look scary as shit the whole way.

Thanks a lot!

fun? yes. reliable? 🤷

@@user-wu4fg7tc9y Why not? Have you seen the kind of horsepower these boys are building today? If the builder is worth his salt, reliability will be there ...how long? PM and you can have a lot of fun.

@@charlesangell_bulmtl well fair enough, but the more you fuck with an engine the less reliable overall right? talking every day drivers tho

@@TheHorsepowerMonster If the ENGINE OIL PUMP belt breaks how fast do you need to shut off the engine to avoid locking it up due to oil starvation ? I would also like to know if you have done any engine rebuilds on the old INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER 304 & 345 or 392 engines in the IH Scouts ?

sorry but that sounds like Arse sure awesome expensive setup but my old junkyard pick a part $50 crossflow ford 4.2 made 600hp ate 8 year ago.

@@altruismfirst6489 You are full of shit are your eyes brown?

Power nation did a similar build on an old ford six that was used as a power plant for a city weed abatement sprayer or some such. It came to them outputting like 80 HP. Left them putting out north of 500 HP.

You can get these at any junkyard for pennies. Now doing what they did to it did not cost pennies. I have seen cheap builds getting a reliable 350-400hp with cheap piston, and internal upgrades, and a large diesel turbo. I think most of the builds were about 2200 dollars. I would like to do an inline 6 build for industrial machines I have, but I live somewhere the roads are a sheet of ice half the year so we don't really do hotrods. I am more into 2 cycle stuff where we are just making toys, and we all drive electric cars. Small engines are easy to tinker with, cheap, and just as fun. This was an incredible build with tight tolerances. My first inline 6 I got for 150 bucks. I changed the Head gasket at 15yo, and did upgrades, and it fired up the first crank. The build they did could easily do 700hp if you push it. I like their build philosophy at keeping it at 4600RPM- makes that build bulletproof. That thing will make reliable HP for as long as you can still get fuel for it.

Bite your tongue...electric cars suck unless it's a hybrid. Two stroke supercharged diesels ARE STILL the most efficient power plants. Been working for the Electromotive since the 50s and they only carry a bare minimum of battery.👍 The EPA is in the back pocket of industry, we should be getting a minimum of 100mpg if the EPA were really doing it's job...Old tech and the new 👍

@@charlesangell_bulmtl okay boomer

But if they're so efficient, why are rx8s such gas hogs? Could ot have something to do with low torque?

@@MrPaige222 I'm not a rotary guy so grain of salt, but rotaries have terrible problems making NOx and other oxides because they burn so hot- and oxides are what you get with a hot burn. The renesis had to avoid that with a unique air intake design that partially strangled them.

@@girthquake1413 I'm right there with you. I have little to no respect for that particular engine. I understand the tiny displacement in regards to the horsepower output, but it comes at such a huge cost in reliability and fuel economy. No thanks. It's no wonder an RX8 is practically worthless

Any time you get Holley to pay you to design a sbc intake, and the. Pay you a licensing fee for each unit sold.. you know a lil something about something! 😉

Most of technology he used didn’t exist when he started building engines. I see a man who has learned continuously throughout his career. I like it when guys don’t get set in their ways to the point of getting passed over by the times we live in.

The best part of watching this is that Keith is so freaking HUMBLE. He's obviously not difficult to work with and eager to keep challenging himself as well. Would hire him in a nanosecond.

You couldn't be more right on your comment. I've assembled some engines in my lifetime, but I am absolutely no engine builder. When I had my 709 wheel horsepower 1.8L B18C5 engine built for my Civic, I had it assembled by a well-known machine shop and engine builder. I paid them to balance, machine, and assemble the long block, and I assembled the head, turbo, and all of the other components so that I knew the hard part was done properly.

@R K its not a v8 that are known to low end torque its a straight 6.

Straight sixes have always been known for having torque, that's why they worked good in work trucks.

@@bigredc222 Precisely!!! They were designed to get things moving and not intended for rpm. The rotating mass of the the crankshaft and it's length are a testament to that! Beautiful build and master craftsman.

@@bigredc222 , We built a Chevy 292 inline 6 a bunch of years back, we used 302 chevy pistons in it, once we got it warmed up when it idled it sounded like a two stroke engine, lol, we had a lot of fun in our free time at the machine shop.

Hey, thanks a lot!

Very well said and well deserved comment. You did a fantastic job not only showcasing the engine, but Keith himself.

@@TheHorsepowerMonster i have a wonderful for Keith Dorton could a carbonated engine be turned into a Fuel injection 💉 system with out the distributor hi 👋 from 🇨🇦 #YSW

That's a big compliment. Thanks a lot!

Sounds like a fun build! Thanks for watching

Good luck, I hope it works.

SWEET!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠

@@billallen4793 hell yeah Bill I'm a Wyoming native run with the neighbors run that way you know where to get parts... 70 mi into town to get parts or quarter mile over the hill to the ol heads tractor....

@@babydaddy1930 you still living here?

This man has likely forgotten more then we are ever likely to know.

Idk about that, ask that dude from star trek. 😉

@@leinadalan He's as old as this engine design and both still boldly going!

My Dad - who was born in 1917 and grew up familiar with these 1927 < up engines - said that the fact that the flimsy cover for the oil pump itself was held on with these low strength, low precision machine screws was astonishing to mechanics used to engines having more precise and more expensive construction. What you have to realize is that only truck and racing car engines had pressure-lubed connecting rod journals back then. Typically a splasher hooked under one rod bolt swung down and splashed oil everywhere inside the engine and some found it's way through a hole or two holes in the side of the big end of the rod to lube the crankpin. If you ever work on one of the very old design Wisconsin THD or TJD upright twin cylinder industrial engines you will see a much shorter splasher formed as part of the con rod cap - with an oil feed hole right above it. The camshaft on those engines ran a simple vertical plunger-pump that picked up oil from the bottom of the pan and lifted it into small elevated troughs positioned so the short splashers could make contact with that oil. That vertical plunger pump just lifted oil a few inches - there was no pressure as such. It's bore was made half in the block and half was a piece of tin bent into a half-pipe with ears. Stove bolt machine screws were good enough to hold the tin cover/half-the-plunger-bore to the cast iron block. (Surprising experienced mechanics of the day. Hey Model T Fords used the oil splash off THE FLYWHEEL DIPPING IN THE BACK OF THE OIL PAN, and finding it's way by sheer chance into a FUNNEL AND PIECE OF COPPER TUBING to gravity - lube THE MAIN CRANKSHAFT BEARINGS. Compared to that - the Chevy Six was much more modern !

@@patrickshaw8595 been a while since I've been in one of these , but if I recall correctly the dipper was a funnel that caught oil and forced it into the crank oil galleries . If oil was cold then it was to thick to be forced into the galleries , if you over revved it then the oil in the pan didn't have time to flow into the channel created by the dipper and it ran dry

Thank you!

I really hope that air filter setup isn't permanent....

This is the first time I've seen the man. I'm 62 years old, and I completely agree with you. Most people with his abilities are rather difficult to be around. I could hang out with him all day just to watch and listen

It's a 1.47 rocker. ;)

He says 1.74 when discussing the cam and 1.47 when referencing rocker setup.

@@jasonstinson1767 ooh I didn't catch that. That makes sense.

Yeah, I got it backwards, sorry!

Sure he knows a lot of the past, and he did not get where he is without anticipating, adapting and embracing modernity and the future.

Try see some brazilians 250ci 3gen We make over 2500HP

Exactly what I was thinking, only four mains plus that huge center double counter weight kind of bothered me but I guess at 5000 RPMs it won’t be too unhappy.

Thanks a lot!

thanks!

Wow! Thanks very much!