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Supercharged 598 Big Block Chevy Engine

Recently, one of Bruce Baker’s customers flipped his boat and got the engine all wet. Not wanting the salt to eat through the big block Chevy, Bruce and his team at Express Engines got to work tearing it down, cleaning it up and rebuilding this supercharged 598 big block Chevy.

747 Big Block Chevy Nitrous Engine

Tired of seeing blower engines in Top Dragster, Bob Reinhardt of MadCap Racing Engines wanted to build a nitrous engine for his customer. The result was a 1,500 hp 747 big block Chevy nitrous engine. Find out what went into the build!

What Makes a Racing Piston?

That clearly is an open-ended question because the answer will single out the uber-sophisticated pistons designed for Formula 1 and World Endurance Challenge (WEC), yet to be completely literal the response must acknowledge hand-modified cast factory pistons used in Hobby Stock racing at the local dirt track.

369 cid LS-Based Bonneville Engine

To break land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats, a lot of things need to go your way. Customers Andy Loyd and Gene McFaddin turned to Jim Gray at Venom Racing Engines to build them a Bonneville engine capable of topping 240 mph. Find out why this 369 cid LS engine could be a record setter this summer.

Sprint and Stock Car Engine Market

Building engines for sprint cars and late-model stock cars is a good niche to be in if your local tracks have a strong racing program that is attracting significant numbers of racers and fans. It takes both to maintain a healthy market and a steady demand for engine work.

An In-Depth Look at Crankshafts

In every aspect of an engine, strength is a very critical factor in the life span and performance level that it can achieve. One place in particular where strength is the most important consideration is the crankshaft.

Getting Aboard with Inboard Marine Engines

Marine engine building is a niche market that is much smaller than the automotive market, but it can also be a very lucrative business for those with the know-how and experience.

Why That 5.3L LS Can Be A Parts Nightmare

The combinations of pistons, gaskets, camshafts, lifters, cam bearings, head bolts, timing sets and oil pumps are endless. And though the options don’t seem quite as large, quoting a 6.0L GM without a year and VIN is just about as difficult.

Ultrasonic Cleaning Technology

Ultrasonic cleaning is one of the ways engine builders can choose to clean parts, but what is it and how does it work? Is it the too-good-to-be-true stuff of science fiction or is it the best technique ever for cleaning the dirtiest of engine components? The truth, as they say, lies somewhere in the middle.

Miller’s Machine Shop; 2016 Diesel Engine Builder of the Year

The owner of Miller’s Machine Shop in Lincoln University, PA, the 2016 Diesel Engine Builder of the Year, has been building winning engines since he was 10 years old.

Shop Solutions – October 2017

Some cylinder heads, like small block Mopars, have the intake manifold bolt holes at a slight angle from the manifold flange. This makes it hard to mount on our surfacing machine milling plate because, when you tighten up the mounting studs against the plate, it wants to bend the stud.

Blown 408 Windsor Engine

Tony Guadagni bought a ’67 Mercury Cougar for $300 in 1987. He has since turned it into a race car capable of 9-second quarter mile runs courtesy of a Blown 408 cid Windsor engine.

Father of Mazda’s Rotary Engine Has Died at 95

Kenichi Yamamoto, the lead engineer on the team that produced a commercially viable rotary engine for Mazda Motor Company, and later became its president and chairman, died on Dec. 20 near Tokyo. He was 95.

454 cid Procharged LSX Engine

Engine of the Week returns in 2018 with a special 454 cid Procharged LSX engine built by Patterson-Elite Performance for Sunnen’s Charity Engine Sweepstakes for Victory Junction. The 1,300 hp LSX helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for a good cause.

Harley-Davidson Twin Cam 107cid Engine

As one of the youngest people to ever reach Harley-Davidson’s Master Technician level, Marty Smestad of Capitol Speed Shop knows a thing or two about V-Twin work. He recently took parts from a 2007 Road King and 2015 Street Glide to build a customer a Harley-Davidson Twin Cam 107cid engine.

MAHLE Motorsport PowerPak Piston Kits

MAHLE Motorsport’s latest Big Block Ford PowerPak piston kit is designed to work with three highly popular cylinder head designs—Ford Super Cobra Jet (SCJ), Kaase P-51 and Air Flow Research (AFR) 14°.

Wagler DX 460 Engine

Most of this Wagler DX 460 engine from head to toe gets brought in on pallets of aluminum and is machined into a complete engine. With hours upon hours of engine design and development Jeremy Wagler has this DX 460 engine singing to the tune of 2,500 hp.

Introducing the 2017 Engine Builders of the Year Sponsored by Federal-Mogul Motorparts

Engine Builder magazine and Federal-Mogul Motorparts recently announced the 2017 Engine Builders of the Year at a party on December 6 at the Rock Bottom Brewery in Indianapolis ahead of the 2017 PRI Show.

GMS Racing Engines’ S&S-Based Evolution V-Twin Voted 2017 Engine of the Year

We first met Gregg Dahl of GMS Racing Engines, located in Uniontown, PA, at the 2016 PRI Show. Fast forward a year to the 2017 PRI Show, and we met with Gregg again. This time we were awarding him for his engine, a S&S-Based Harley-Davidson Evolution V-Twin.

1981 Toyota 3TC 1.8L Engine

Not one to limit his engine prowess, James Hamilton Jr. of Hamilton Performance Engines doesn’t only work on marine, drag race, or street engines. He stays profitable by knowing how to work on all engines. In that effort, he got straight to work on this 1.8L Toyota 3TC engine.