Top Secret Processes To Handle Maximum Horsepower!

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After my own journey into making engine blocks and what it took to finally succeed, I have huge respect for the people who make it happen for the NHRA's best Top Fuel and Funny Car teams! These nitro engines have to withstand huge amounts of horsepower and there are no corners cut to make a piece of billet aluminum as strong as possible. Enjoy this tour of the amazing Point One facility in Missouri! While they build engine blocks, it's actually fasteners these guys love to make. If you're an engine nerd you'll love this behind the scenes look.
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@sonnypleasantone 3 месяца назад

Heat treatment in-house. A metallurgical testing lab. thats top notch quality control. Vibratory stress relief.. top fuel funny cars, great episode. MADE IN AMERICA

@normnielsen 3 месяца назад

Indeed! Fascinating to see what is done at the top end of the spectrum.

@markseaman4750 3 месяца назад

When you’re sitting in the stands watching nitro cars shake the ground at 300+mph you don’t realize just how much economic activity is required to accomplish that. Here’s a peek into a factory that makes blocks for those engines. The expensive machinery required, the jobs created to make them and the jobs created to run them.

@bobroberts2371 3 месяца назад

And some want to tax " rich " people into oblivion causing these workers to lose their jobs. . .

@i8ntnuts 3 месяца назад

Thank god jb is tired of poor people paying tax for rich people. dt says hot rods should be banned. HE should be banned!

@PonkyKong 2 месяца назад

@bobroberts2371 the have nots think tax is somehow fairness. They are not thinking about how money is used.

@RATTL3R186 3 месяца назад

Haven't seen a manufacturer this thorough in ages. Believe it or not quality matters!

@Fk8td 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much for mentioning about NOT putting fastener lube on the bottom of the washer. So many “engine builders” say it doesn’t matter.

@paullatour7012 3 месяца назад

Man I love to see American manufacturing.

@GhostSniper67 3 месяца назад

Finally some clear cut guidelines on the proper torque process.

@leonhosie3053 2 месяца назад

Yup, very good advice and knowlege sharing. Hats off to these guys.

@sabbath4130ify 3 месяца назад

I'm a sucker for a good tour of how some of the big boys manufacture things and this was no disappointment. I loved the fact that they kept a good majority of the manufacturing in house. Quality is everything. It's refreshing to see some people still like making it here in the usa to keep quality up and not get to focused in profits like many vendors are doing now. The way he explained how important lubricating was with fastening was eye opening. I'll be lubricating my head studs and washers and nuts as they recommend from now on.

@marklowe330 2 месяца назад

You have to focus on profits or you won't be a business.

@brettnipps7205 3 месяца назад

Thanks Tom! I learned some things today!

@chrisderr6375 3 месяца назад

Love videos like this. Been working in the machine industry for decades and the technology still amazes me 💪

@stevenslater2669 3 месяца назад

Steve Morris recently aired a few episodes on assembling and dyno tuning a very special Hemi. The owner had every external part anidized. Steve had all sorts of electrical issues. Finally tracked down to the anodize coating provides very poor electrical conductivity. They had to grind thru that beautiful coating at every single electrical connection on the engine. BTW: My brother managed a big aluminum anodizing facility for many years. He said “hard anodizing” really refers to the thickness of the anodize coating. (Same with thing for hard chrome vs. show chrome. It’s the thickness of the chrome layer. Chrome all has the same hardness. BTW2: My brother’s plant had large anodizing tanks to treat 12 foot architectural panels and 30’ light poles like you see in a parking lot. They used to get small jobs in like cleats for sailboats. They charged significant $$$ for those little jobs, but the dirty little secret in the anodizing industry was they needed those little jobs to fill in the corners of the tanks and even out the electrical charge thruout the tank.

@p1manufacturing867 3 месяца назад

Thanks for coming Tom! We had a blast!

@bobroberts2371 3 месяца назад

Any thoughts on the industry wide issue of TF blocks randomly pulling main studs out of the block? Apparently this has been going on for a few years. Is it time to move towards a different thread profile like buttress or acme / start of block thread chamfer profile / longer block thread length or something else? I wonder if some teams are over tightening the stud into the block pre stressing the threads.

@padron632 3 месяца назад

I have been following P1 Manufacturing and Tom Bailey since day one. I think that if he had done this tour before, he would have succeeded with the SMX block deal. Badass Mazak CNC machines I love the video tour. It is very educational.

@bobroberts2371 3 месяца назад

@@padron632 Steve Morris has the machine at his shop and is making blocks. The problem when it was at Bailie's shop and the one just before Steve's is they were trying to machine the block in just about one setup from the bell housing end and holding tight tolerances. You can't hang the block off of a rotating fixture and expect to hold dimensions. Steve's guy had one of the rotating fixtures removed and does the machining in 2 or 3 setups.

@padron632 2 месяца назад

@@bobroberts2371 I know about Steve Morris, the best thing he did was change the Haas back to a 4 axis and finish the block in the 5 axis Centroid, and he is doing a very good project in house. He should hard-anodize all the billet main caps. I have seen that he has had problems with that in SML and, I think, in Cleetus SMX Block.

@robertterry1709 3 месяца назад

Yes great tour and they know their stuff was very interesting about torque and yeild on bolts well done Tom

@notthunderr4069 3 месяца назад

Love the Science without the nerd explanation, so much easier to grasp.The Bailelolgy works for my brain.

@richardmorton1310 3 месяца назад

In my biz career, I got to tour a lot of plants. It was a highlight of my day. Thanks for the tour.

@michaelbaldridge3637 3 месяца назад

I love videos like this, thanks and Happy 4TH to everyone

@riccocool 3 месяца назад

Happy 4th to you too!

@stevieg2755 3 месяца назад

Wow that's like a billion dollars in capital and machines, impressive

@riccocool 3 месяца назад

Like Amazon doing fasteners

@strykerentllc 3 месяца назад

These gentlemen know their craft very well. As someone whom designs and manufactures weapon components, they shared a plethora of their TDP with laymen that few if any would ever be privy to without having to spend a long time in higher learning scenarios or taking a tour of their facility while them sharing information. Fastener material being one as well as the heat treat process gives insight into how difficult it is to manufacture components subjected to extreme loads and temperatures. In short, this was awesome and hopefully Steve can glean some insight from it as well. Happy Independence Day!

@edwardwood3622 2 месяца назад

@@strykerentllc bs you are just a kid.

@strykerentllc 2 месяца назад

@@edwardwood3622 Eddie thinks he's important. Eddie is wrong. Eddie's mom is going to send him off to bed with no dinner for being on the internet without permission. Don't be like Eddie.

@Chevyv8man1 3 месяца назад

Very interesting, Thanks so much for videoing this. I could listen to him talk about torque all day. I never thought about lubing the washer and nut/bolt base before. I think I have to redo all my stuff now - lol

@riccocool 3 месяца назад

I wonder if sweat is close enough?

@cjcoleman7372 3 месяца назад

I love seeing where the material I used to help make winds/ wound up. I used to work in a steel mill making coils of stainless from 5.5 mm all the way up to 6" round. The 5.5 was for BBQ grills, and the 6" was for drill bits for offshore oil rig drills. We never really was told what everything in between was used for.

@jerryloughney4757 3 месяца назад

Interesting talk on torquing and lubrication. Thanks for the vid.

@lonnyself3920 3 месяца назад

Man I am just drooling over the goody's love the science in that place , I miss doing things like this real old disabled vet automation is cool in that place , thank you Tom for bring us along .

@catman19 3 месяца назад

I always lube bolt heads before torking, makes a big difference

@davidvickery8792 3 месяца назад

Absolutely fantastic, love seeing these high end manufacturing facilities right here in the USA. Great tour, Tom, thanks

@stuwest3653 3 месяца назад

The start up cost for a business like this must be insane. It would be years before you turned a profit.

@riccocool 3 месяца назад

It's funny because it's usually 60 year old guys doing it. Graveyard cars comes to mind. Without a key man takeover strategy it is scary

@francisbeaudry8598 3 месяца назад

visa card loll

@FCM.inc1 2 месяца назад

Just the machine costs alone would scare you let alone the tooling inside each machine costs

@DHUMPTXTX 2 месяца назад

Good information. I've always lubed both sides of the washer and the threads. Guess I'll need to change that.

@JDspeedandFab. 3 месяца назад

Very Cool Tom thanks for Sharing, now that’s a fortress of a Place 😳😎👍🏼🏁

@4DPastures 2 месяца назад

I worked it a factory very similar to this. Back shops and all. We were building LearJets.

@hemifiedsixtyfour2813 3 месяца назад

Thats Mark from Edelbrock..

@cranjismcbasketball946 2 месяца назад

I knew I recognized him from somewhere!

@Canoga_Knuckles 3 месяца назад

Fair to say top fuel isn’t going away anytime soon. Would like to hear the price tag on a TF block......with the price break for number of units factored in. P1 a monopoly in the making !

@ls1jeeper 3 месяца назад

That place is awesome !

@padron632 3 месяца назад

Steve Morris Engines must watch this video.

@604cuinkillah 2 месяца назад

Not really😄😄 You should watch some of Steve's videos, you'd learn something

@604cuinkillah 2 месяца назад

You should watch some of Steve's videos

@padron632 2 месяца назад

@@604cuinkillah What I am sure of is that Steve will watch it and learn something from this particular video. I have learned a lot from Steve's videos. Thanks for the recommendation but I have been watching them for years.😄😄😄

@Jimmyb918 3 месяца назад

You got to keep the rockers rocking and in your case it's not listening to the perfect stranger

@cdnaudioguy 3 месяца назад

The world needs more tips from the real experts. The half-lubed washer thing makes SO much sense.

@swissmochaj 3 месяца назад

I bet their maintenance dept. Makes some good money. Lots of precision repair work for those machines

@bigdog2024 3 месяца назад

Hearing from Clay Millican’s channel that Top Fuel and Funny Car nitro engines are blowing main caps on these blocks right and left as the studs are pulling out of the block. No known fix at this time but to cut back on power. 10,000 HP breaks everything.

@alvinames5041 3 месяца назад

Hey Tom, It's Called Planetary Science! The Study of Planets!☄️🌞🌙

@alvinames5041 3 месяца назад

Hey Tom, Didn't Steve Morris Build You An Engine a While Back?🤑🤔

@george1la 2 месяца назад

How interesting and what a clean shop.

@THEVROD64 3 месяца назад

Teasers....Love it ! Great Job Tom

@chrisstavro4698 2 месяца назад

The first five minutes is my dream shop.

@ronleiferman9185 3 месяца назад

So it looks like Mark Campbell has left the Edelbrock Group.

@GHBTPUSY 3 месяца назад

He did for good reason.

@poormansdemon3176 3 месяца назад

@@GHBTPUSY Dang sounds like more to the story care to fill in

@daveandsuzannemarvosh6013 3 месяца назад

Love your interest level. Respect for the men willing to do this work.

@montestu5502 2 месяца назад

Great to see USA manufacturing!

@richardbrady2818 2 месяца назад

Tom, quit trying to tell the guys how to do their job, WTH !!!!

@Thewaldo12345 3 месяца назад

Shop full of Mazak. You know they’re serious.

@josephc3276 3 месяца назад

I can only imagine the investment needed for a shop like this 😮.

@mikedimaio1237 3 месяца назад

Who doesn't like machines that have it's own built in steps that you walk up and makes small parts.

@upptowne 2 месяца назад

little things that make stuff stay together

@79tazman 2 месяца назад

Did you see the Hemi Cleetus got for his Eagle build it's going to be a beast

@ronbuckner8179 3 месяца назад

Fascinating stuff! Thanx Tom. The toilet bowl match up was a bit crass.

@79tazman 2 месяца назад

My Aunt worked at a stamping place for a long time and she lost a finger in one of the stamping machines it was back in the early 70's when it happened I forget what they stamped there but they were big tall machines in they would make a big bang everytime it would stamp the steel parts.

@rolandtamaccio3285 2 месяца назад

@@79tazman ,,, what town did she work in ,,, ?

@padron632 3 месяца назад

@theoldbigmoose 3 месяца назад

Notice how the good shops are spotlessly clean? Right here in the USA! Aerospace QA at the highest level.

@jpop2499 3 месяца назад

Awesome video! Thanks for taking us along. More content like this please and with machines running if allowed.

@terrybeyer4239 3 месяца назад

Big thanks for sharing this video. Very much appreciated all of it .

@barry8458 3 месяца назад

The size of that one machine is insane !😮

@Jimmyb918 3 месяца назад

The Tom Bailey interview on what it takes to handle maximum horsepower you done a good job Tom❤❤😮❤❤ way cool thanks for taking us along definitely a great watch

@scudzuki 2 месяца назад

They don't make their own sleeves because Darton spent a fortune to R&D their sleeves (which are a product that's stood the test of time) and so to make as good a product would require a huge investment. Then they have to convince racers their sleeves are as good as Dartons, and prove it in the real world.

@toddclark332 3 месяца назад

Thanks Tom for the tour really cool have a great 4th July guys 🏁💪🏼🇺🇸

@I-apologize-in-advance 3 месяца назад

Super interesting video!!! Happy 4th everybody!!

@roadrunner4404 2 месяца назад

True quality

@scottreed5460 2 месяца назад

Made with MAZAK milling machines right outta Florence KY. 1 million dollars you can make your own blocks per machine

@alfredomorales9559 3 месяца назад

Is this dude related to Doug Cook from Motion ?

@chrisdunaway2562 3 месяца назад

Same voice for sure!!!

@douglawrence9616 3 месяца назад

That really was a very interesting video, I could spend all week in there. Thanks Tom!

@70chevs 3 месяца назад

Those blocks are a piece of art.

@nhra7110 3 месяца назад

damn impressive operation!! wow

@joeblock62 2 месяца назад

Maaaaaaaaaaaannn!!!! They have some capital invested in that place!

@beastmaster9433 3 месяца назад

Time to step up your game and get some wireless mic's, Fellers. Get off that wallet Tom, it's not easy being famous! hahaha

@stevenraymer6682 3 месяца назад

That was cool Tom thanks

@vehdynam 3 месяца назад

Now that was very interesting and informative ! Many thanks.

@jeffmiller6100 3 месяца назад

Really interesting tour 👍 Thanks for sharing.

@greenmirror5555 3 месяца назад

Tom doing another great visit! Add Darton sleeves to the places to tour too!

@handsovereyes5631 3 месяца назад

First cleetus and now you getting into the hemis. Maybe Steve needs to get into the game

@irahubscherjr6629 2 месяца назад

Steve just did a hemi marine application, that was hard anodized to protect against rust.

@larrysteuckrath1031 3 месяца назад

This was a superior video to the 'grab-ass', burnout, time-wasting B.S. that make up most of your videos. Sorry Tom, I actually enjoyed this one and please make more like. I would like to see the video on "I'm done with Haas" (and I hope Steve has better luck).

@shifty1927 3 месяца назад

Gonna run that engine in my manual street car. 😂 Should be fine right?

@randallhub528 2 месяца назад

I got my new shirts today Saturday @ 50% off Thanks Tom Bailey!!!

@K-Effect 3 месяца назад

All these machines are making money!

@marklowe330 2 месяца назад

What a great video. Spent a couple of decades doing setup and programming on Mazak lathes.

@curtiswalter86 3 месяца назад

Thank you.

@rolandtamaccio3285 2 месяца назад

You anodize the caps because Keith Black did it 50 years ago ,,, !

@chandannel 3 месяца назад

I can't wait for the 'experts' to tell us how wrong he is about proper torque procedure. 😏

@GHBTPUSY 3 месяца назад

Here you are Is complaining about other people may complain. You're a karen.. 😂

@Bodie2020 3 месяца назад

@@GHBTPUSY well u need reread what you have written and edit for grammar. But I do not believe that he was complaining. He was stating just as he said. He can’t wait to see the comments of how the professionals are doing it incorrectly. Most of us use the comment section for entertainment. All the “experts” who are so good and overqualified that they don’t participate in the industry just to give the rest a chance.

@chandannel 3 месяца назад

Really? Is are you sure?

@Jalan.Anthony 3 месяца назад

@@GHBTPUSY He is are telling us his expectation. He isn’t aren’t complaining.

@robm.4512 3 месяца назад

@@Jalan.Anthony Isn’t aren’t them the fucts of the matter, or is they aren’t? I think we should be told.

@young11984 2 месяца назад

I just want to know why if you are going to let an aluminum rod engine sit for ling periods they recommend loosening the rod bolts but the same rods sit on a shelf with bolts torqued, is the loosening for the rod or bolts?

@UKDrew 3 месяца назад

So Secret Only RU-vid Knows ^^

@balloonknot3028 3 месяца назад

Awesome video great content👍

@moe.2650 2 месяца назад

What happened to Steve Morris not using his engines anymore 😂

@XentheTek 2 месяца назад

Love watching indepth shopwork like this :D

@JonnyBlanco973 2 месяца назад

Alot of good info but that oiling of the washer part is stuck with me now.

@terrypickette118 3 месяца назад

Tom what happened to your CNC machine

@victormiller7440 3 месяца назад

@@terrypickette118 Steve Morris has it at his shop, not sure who owns it, but that is where it's at.

@promod4040 3 месяца назад

IS THIS GUY DOUG FROM MOTION RACEWORKS BROTHER???? SURE LOOKS AND SOUNDS LIKE IT COULD BE.......

@Kraken270Jetsprint 3 месяца назад

Fascinating thanks

@johnroche6362 3 месяца назад

Hey Tom Bailey, how interesting. Thank you.

@joshuagibson2520 3 месяца назад

I wouldnt say 7075 is more fragile, but definitely harder and more brittle than 6061. Most of my mfg was machining of 6061. Sometimes I did the tooling for and forming of aluminum. In most cases it would be 2024. Its much softer and more pliable. Doesn't stretch "tear" like 6061 would. Dayton Ohio, Tom. Thats where I did all my work.

@quickdeuce 2 месяца назад

Whew,, Tom made Mark a tad bit 'uncomfortable' as they were talking about the sleeves made by DART,, @3:37 Tom said "Well everybody used to use somebody else's blocks to,, so that didn't stop ya,,," Got a bit chilly before Mark says,, "Good point, maybe one day."

@terryenyart5838 2 месяца назад

Amazing! Love American craftsmanship & manufacturing. Thanks for taking us along Tom.

@Virtualspeedperformance 3 месяца назад

I got drunk and bar hopped at PRI last year with a guy that worked at P1

@jg6142 3 месяца назад

Gen 3 Hemi please

@thomaslewis7883 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the tour Tom. it was super interesting to say the least. Most people think you pack a bunch of nitro into a 500 cubic inch piece of billet aluminum ,spin it to 9500 and go 300 mph. Not only does it require strong parts but a good tuner as well.. When the last time you adjusted your compression ratio as part of your tune? So yeah while they do produce a lot of what I call raw horsepower from the big blower and a garden hose supply of nitro, to win races, you need a lot of data, a good crew and a really good tuner.