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I made a reference a page or 3 back about typing out updates on the findings of the Engine Masters episodes when they come out for those who either don't have MTOD, or cancelled their subs when they axed Dirt Every Day. If this is stupid someone feel free to just tell me to fuck off :flipoff2:
Anyhoo, They started up the back half of season 7 not too long after the DED announcement came out, so I'll start there.

Episode 119: Every Trick in the Book
Freiburger brings in his 410 stroker Windsor out of the Disgustang saying that it makes just a smidge under 500hp, and feels that he can super tune it to get it up above 500.
They basically diddle with timing sweeps, collector extensions, carb spacers and all the usual BS ad end up getting it to a repeatable 505hp.
I found this one kind of stupid while I was watching it just for the fact that if you don't have access to a dyno of some kind, the episode is completely meaningless. Not like I have the means to measure the nickels and dimes of dicking around with little changes like that over and over again :homer:.

Episode 120: Low buck SBC Head Shootout
They pulled out the "Ultimate Average 383" and did a shootout between the 3 least expensive options Summit offers for aftermarket cylinder heads.
They had Summit branded heads, a pair of Speedmasters, and some AFR Enforcers.
Speedmaster: ~$1000
-190cc
-475 lbft@4200 452hp @5500
AFR: ~$1050
-195cc
-483lbft@4200 471hp @7500 (no loss of power or torque anywhere in the curve)
Summit: ~$1100
-200cc
-476lbft@4200 465@5800 (curve appeared basically overlaid with the Speedmasters)

Episode 121: Pick-a-Carb Shootout
They tested 3 carbs, all with the same exact venturi size, airflow rating, etc. The difference is that one was a vacuum secondary, one was a street double pumper, and one was a race double pumper with a smooth top and no choke horn.

The vacuum secondary was about 15 numbers down from the other two starting at mid-high RPM. The race double pumper bested the street double pumper by only about 5 numbers, and it was all the way up at the top end of the rev range.
Interestingly, each carb used the exact same amount of air, as measured by the air hat.. Brule and Freiburger mused for awhile on the fact that the air quality beneath the carburetor (turbulence, etc.) is hard for us to test for or measure, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. They also touched on the fact that while the vacuum secondary makes less peak power, it meters fuel at all throttle positions far better than you can reasonably expect a mechanical double pumper to do.

Episode 122: Split Pattern vs Single Pattern Cams again
Freiburger brings the 410 back in to try and eek out a few more HP out of it by sticking a dual pattern cam in it.
Basically, one of the guys at Schneider Cams had touched on the fact that the last time they did a test similar to this, they ended up unintentionally changing not only the duration of the exhaust lobe, but also the degrees of overlap and both exhaust valve opening events. This time, the split pattern cam has a slightly adjusted LSA, and was degreed in to perfectly match the single pattern cam.

Engine went from 505hp to 517hp with no losses anywhere along the curve.

Brule talked about how this is incredibly common. We tend to focus on intake flow and little else, while sometimes overall exhaust flow is discarded, even though the exhaust side tends to have smaller valves and smaller flow numbers. Adding more duration to the exhaust lobe appears to help compensate for this flow discrepancy, and provides a better overall performance package with no discernable downside. Basically, if you have the option, picking the split pattern seems to be the way to go in most applications.
 
Watching the latest episode of "Bitchin' Rides" this evening. l actually like the show for the quality of the cars and the realistic time line, along with the fact that all the guys in the shop seem to get along with eachother and there isn't much drama.

That being said, they're working on a 327 powered early Corvette and they sent the engine to the machine shop because it had low compression and no oil pressure. They were interviewing the shop owner, and he was talking the audience through the bore/hone procedure on the small block:

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mdmike said:
Watching the latest episode of "Bitchin' Rides" this evening. l actually like the show for the quality of the cars and the realistic time line, along with the fact that all the guys in the shop seem to get along with eachother and there isn't much drama.

That being said, they're working on a 327 powered early Corvette and they sent the engine to the machine shop because it had low compression and no oil pressure. They were interviewing the shop owner, and he was talking the audience through the bore/hone procedure on the small block:

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The elusive straight six 327.
 
Meh, the bore and hone process is the same regardless of what engine it is. You can explain the process with any block. I'm sure the filming schedule didn't match the machine shop schedule.

That said, I've never been to an engine shop that didn't have multiple SBC blocks laying around. They could have thrown a random block in the boring machine and no one would be able to tell the difference between a 350 and a 327.
 
Watching Lucky slap some generic fenders on a generic trailer on Youtube reminds me how much easier shit is when you're a "normal car guy" and only have to move "normal things"
 
Arps said:
The Ranchero was underwhelming.
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Yea seems like they are forcing it. Maybe even giving a lesson on giving up if you aren't into something vs trying to take something you dont like and putting a bunch of time into it and still be disappointed.

I totally loved my '62 but the tiny car truck thing isn't for everyone
 
Running outtah shit to watch so tried out "Full Custom Garage" last night for a few episodes.
Dude reminds me a lot of myself. No fucks given, has a vision (kindah), knows some stuff, can hackfuck the rest, and just goes for it. :laughing:
I was cringing and yelling at him to not hack the roof off that Buick. It did work surprisingly well in the end though.
 
Sceep said:
Running outtah shit to watch so tried out "Full Custom Garage" last night for a few episodes.
Dude reminds me a lot of myself. No fucks given, has a vision (kindah), knows some stuff, can hackfuck the rest, and just goes for it. :laughing:
I was cringing and yelling at him to not hack the roof off that Buick. It did work surprisingly well in the end though.
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Yeah I like his style. No drama, no bragging, not even sure if anyone else works with him. Just vision and work and talent.
 
Ive been saying it for a while. Im not necessarily a big fan of the end result of that guy's stuff, but his methods are very entertaining.

I was glad to see he got another season out of MT.
 
Sceep said:
Running outtah shit to watch so tried out "Full Custom Garage" last night for a few episodes.
Dude reminds me a lot of myself. No fucks given, has a vision (kindah), knows some stuff, can hackfuck the rest, and just goes for it. :laughing:
I was cringing and yelling at him to not hack the roof off that Buick. It did work surprisingly well in the end though.
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Ians stuff is always fully hacked together with a 30' paint. but people buy them so, lid for every pot. for the record, im not saying in any way I could do better :laughing:
 
grapehead said:
Yeah I like his style. No drama, no bragging, not even sure if anyone else works with him. Just vision and work and talent.
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He doesn’t brag, but he does seem to have a lot other people on his show that keep saying how great he is. That gets old, but at least he doesn’t have manufactured drama.
 
Watching Dirt every day now says it a new episode they bought an 88 K5 blazer trying to get it to run it's not working out so they took their tow truck Chevy Silverado four wheeling.
 
TrikeKid said:
Such a tired subject you'll never see the starting/drivability benefits of EFI doing WOT pulls on a dyno.
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I don’t understand why they batch fired the multipoint EFI which results in atomized fuel pooling behind the intake valves and dribbling into the combustion chamber instead of sequentially firing them so atomized fuel is entering the combustion chamber for each cylinder when the intake valve is open.

Big fucking fail in that episode in my book.

It reminds me of when I worked in the magazine industry and we were to the point that we were writing tech articles that we had done a year or two ago.

“Yeah, well…new readers haven’t seen it, so…”
 
Jeep Ride said:
Watching Dirt every day now says it a new episode they bought an 88 K5 blazer trying to get it to run it's not working out so they took their tow truck Chevy Silverado four wheeling.
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I was watching that, and they said it was an 88... but that would be incorrect, as 1988s were TBI and this was a carb. Later on, they corrected to say it was from 1985 which would be period correct.
 
ProjectTwin said:
I don’t understand why they batch fired the multipoint EFI which results in atomized fuel pooling behind the intake valves and dribbling into the combustion chamber instead of sequentially firing them so atomized fuel is entering the combustion chamber for each cylinder when the intake valve is open.

Big fucking fail in that episode in my book.
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Really? You do carb vs EFI for a what? 2nd or 3rd time? Then purposely do the wrong fucking distribution method? Stupid.


Reminds me of the water/meth episode where freiburger was going all spastic about how water doesn't burn so it doesn't make any more power and you should just run methanol instead.
Well if you think of watermeth like it's nitrous then you're going to be disappointed. If you think about it as very inexpensive knock suppressant that lowers EGTs, you'll find ways to use it other than what he was doing. Dude gets stuck in his ways and comes at things from weird angles a lot it seems.
 
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