Top Fuel Cranks! HEMI Engine Blocks! Mopar Connection Goes on a Callies Performance Factory Tour

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Most of us know the Callies Performance Products name only when it comes to BIG DOLLAR drag racing and top performance engines - but did you know that they provide complete rotating assemblies for the street driven hot rod, the bare-budget sportsman racer and more? Oh yeah, and that Callies makes all of the cast iron Gen 2 426 HEMI engine blocks for Mopar/Direct Connection? We tour the factory, the machine shop and nearly ever square inch of this legendary aftermarket manufacturer HERE:
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Callies Performance Products
901 South Union St.
Fostoria, OH 44830
(419) 435-2711
www.callies.com
Energy Manufacturing
1830 Old Oak Harbor Rd.
Fremont, OH 43420
(419) 355-9304
www.energymanufacturing.com
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18 сен 2024

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@kurtpoblenz2741 Год назад

That was like walking around a mechanical candy store 😳 !!!

@moparconnection Год назад

Yeah, it's pretty amazing for the guy who loves big horsepower.

@billclark5943 Год назад

Love a well-seasoned shop. God bless America.

@moparconnection Год назад

Gotta love American-made!

@mikedaugharty5544 9 месяцев назад

absolutely awesome video thank you very good information

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

@fromthebackofmymind 9 месяцев назад

Really great video. I did not know that Callies bought Crane Cams. Thirty years ago I bought a nice flat tappet Crane cam and kit for a daily 350.

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

Very cool!

@anthonytumbarello9940 Год назад

THANK YOU CALLIES !

@moparconnection Год назад

Amen to that! What a cool facility

@acove8413 5 месяцев назад

I got to walk through a few weeks ago when I picked up my crank. Very cool place and awesome parts.

@moparconnection 5 месяцев назад

It sure is!

@paulcraven4652 Год назад

What about all of us small block l a guys need a forged crank for a 340 cid rotating assembly

@moparconnection Год назад

Not sure. You'll have to start looking.

@nhra7110 Год назад

awesome video! thanks

@moparconnection Год назад

Glad you liked it! And fantastic username!

@Anthony-nw5zv Год назад

Great video!😊

@moparconnection Год назад

Glad you liked it!!

@michaelmichaelson8452 Год назад

Awesome loved the video

@moparconnection Год назад

Thanks man! Appreciated!

@ryanprettyman3123 7 месяцев назад

I want to see the Gen 3 Hemi billet blocks

@moparconnection 7 месяцев назад

We'll be returning to Callies shortly to film (hopefully) both the iron Hemi and billet aluminum G3 blocks.

@stevenbean9706 5 месяцев назад

i noticed they tell everyone to store a crank vertically but run them ar horizontal it would help qc if they built a coat hanger style cart to hang cranks rather than stack them theres microscopic cracks in the stuff at the bottom i guarantee i could find with a fischerscope

@moparconnection 5 месяцев назад

Interesting hypothesis

@normangiven6436 2 месяца назад

So, when can we get forged cranks for the small block 340 / 360 engines?

@moparconnection Месяц назад

When the demand is high enough

@supercuda1950 Месяц назад

American made in my home state of Ohio.

@moparconnection Месяц назад

Yessir!

@marcumexe 2 месяца назад

These guys need a clean up crew it doesn't make the cranks any better but sure makes it nicer for the operator some of those rags been there since they first opened..

@moparconnection 2 месяца назад

This facility is incredibly well kept. Again, more insanely non-informed opinions.

@jg6142 3 месяца назад

Bring me one aluminum gen 3 Hemi please!

@moparconnection 3 месяца назад

They've got 'em.

@altpraize6708 Год назад

So, with all the new parts being produced, looks like it's possible to build a completely new 440 wedge engine.

@moparconnection Год назад

I mean yeah, you could but with iron blocks available for just a couple hundred bucks why not build a huge displacement Hemi instead?!

@DavidLee-ic2gp 9 месяцев назад

Next time, can you please bring a sound man with you so you can show us what he's showing you, and we can actually hear what he's saying about what we are looking at. The phone's mike is directional/cardioid. No wayno when he is not in the shot. Thanks!

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

Actually, we used a "dead cat" microphone on a DLSR. The only way to do better is to have a lapel mic on him. It's a noisy factory.

@Moparmaga-1 9 месяцев назад

Also, people would run a low deck hemi too, just make the block

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

No, nobody would - at least in the numbers that they would get their money back. This is a ridiculous suggestion for a company to invest ONE AND A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS into. Because that's what it costs just to tool up such a block. Ask Muscle Motors, Bulldog, INDY or any other company (I have). That's what it costs.

@Moparmaga-1 9 месяцев назад

@@moparconnection it's not ridiculous. People made hemi headed wedge blocks in they're garages decades ago. It wasn't any 1.5 million dollars.

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

@@Moparmaga-1 it's outside of the realm of possibility for these major manufacturers. Stage V made a VERY limited run of "conversion heads" for wedge blocks 20 years ago. Even fewer for low decks. Unsurprisingly, the demand wasn't there to keep going. Jeremy Goodstein attempted to offer similar Hemi conversion heads (even for LA blocks) and lost hundreds of thousands in the process. The money is in RB and Hemi blocks first. Then G3 Hemi blocks. Then MAYBE over years of sales, LA blocks. Low deck is (according to these companies) waaay in the back. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but just relaying what these guys see as far as customer demand.

@Moparmaga-1 9 месяцев назад

@@moparconnection okay thanks for your time. I get it, it's all about the dollar...

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

@@Moparmaga-1 yeah, sadly it's always about the bottom dollar.

@tenthousanddays2103 3 месяца назад

I was one of the poor saps that got fvcked out of $2000 deposit on a bulldog block from Muscle Motors when they decided to close up. I'd like to talk to that guy by hand.

@moparconnection 3 месяца назад

The last we heard was that Mike at Muscle Motors quit to grow weed and his nephew is trying to make good on all of the pending sales.

@tenthousanddays2103 3 месяца назад

@@moparconnection 6 or 7 years ago now, I'm not going to hold my breath. It still stings though.

@moparconnection 3 месяца назад

Ugh. That sucks, man. I'm sorry to hear it.

@Moparmaga-1 9 месяцев назад

Low deck blocks guys.... c'mon the most popular stroker builds would be low deck if the blocks were available. I personally would buy a low deck 4.500 bore right now and have no worries about running B1 heads up to 9500 rpm. Besides the low deck fits everything better.

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

Low deck are in such LOW demand it's not worth the investment.

@Moparmaga-1 9 месяцев назад

@@moparconnection 100% false statement. How about you do a poll and find out...ask all the a-body guys see what they say. The reason why they don't produce the low deck is because they're cheap and producing the hemi and wedge in rb is basically the same besides the hemi head deck.

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

Sorry, Charlie. I've talked with Chris Wheatcraft (owner of INDY), Dick Bradshaw (former owner of Bulldog) and Heath Norton (owner of Callies) the market demand is NOT THERE. It's very niche, and not enough to cover the cost of tooling.

@Moparmaga-1 9 месяцев назад

@@moparconnection cheap assholes lol. Indy sells aluminum low decks

@moparconnection 9 месяцев назад

They did. I don't believe the Indy MAXX block is still in production. The last I saw, the MAXX block was $7,300.