Homemade Billet Engine - How to Make a 2.0L Engine from Scratch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2021
- In this video you will see yet another custom homemade engine design from Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun. This new 2-liter billet engine will be used primarily for competition at Bonneville for land speed racing purposes. Pete wanted a 2-liter engine that could compete with the Honda S2000 engine that are currently on the market. Pete and Kevin have high hopes of producing several hundreds of horsepower and setting some new land speed records with his unique design. In this video you will see the welding process and you will hear how Pete and Kevin will go about making this one-of-a-kind drivetrain work.
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Is it just me, or is this dude staring right into the weld flash?!?! what a chad.
Nascar spares are the BEST place to get cheap stuff to build a racecar.. Literally for CENTS on the dollar.. they life stuff out at 1 race or something, which means it still has plenty of life left on the street / track
Well just to show u i would never even consider used NASCAR parts bc i would think they would never give out their secrets used or new!!!
First rule about fight club
Is that where you get your parts? 😂
The comments ole boss made about the s2000 valve train, true appreciation right there.
I love Peters cheeky smile when he's happy with something.
Such an underrated channel, absolutely love the content!
Much appreciated! I'm new to this TH-cam deal so I'm trying to figure out how to improve and make good content for everyone. I appreciate the support and positive comments. Greg
I just ran across the overhead valve sbc and am hooked
@@earlsspeedshop7058 Thank you! I will get some content soon- I talked to Pete this evening and he's pulling the big V12 out of storage so we can fire it up soon and make another video . Please subscribe if you can - Happy New Year! Greg
I assemble engines, this dude makes engines!
Thanks for letting us tag along Greg.
Absolutely my Pleasure, I hope to get more content soon! Thank you! Greg
Old school appreciates the honda vtec heads. Thats what i like to see. I would love to hang out with this old timer any day.
Heather, These guys are a blast to hang out with. Pete and Kevin and both drivers Scoot and Cal are the nicest people and are 100% genuine and authentic. Thank you for watching! Happy New Year!
This is the best engineering/machinist/Automotive/gearhead type of channel on TH-cam or anywhere for that matter
Thank you Kevin! I appreciate it. I'm not a TH-camr and trying to figure this thing out. I'm trying my best to get great and interesting content for you guys. I will get some more cool stuff filmed and uploaded soon! Thanks Greg
NOW THIS… IS AN ENGINE BUILD!
I just love seeing masters in the zone doing their passions
I love this stuff. Was a toolmaker's apprentice many years ago. Fascinating
This is some of the best engineering I've seen on the tube! Freaking awesome. Along the lines of the English engineer Allen Millyard. He does motorcycle stuff. V12 motorcycle v8's he's great too. But your engine's rock, such great horse power! Well done gentlemen!
Thank you so much for documenting these two amazing guy's creations !
Love these vids of Aardema and Braun! Such cool, humble, skilled dudes. Thanks for sharing something different than all the other gearhead channels.
Thank you! I appreciate the support. Hoping to get some more content uploaded soon!
Man, Being the gopher in this shop, would be the most educational experience ever.
I am learning a lot from Pete and Kevin just hanging around the shop every once and a while. These guy's do some amazing work. Thanks for Watching! Greg
Anything you want to show us with homemade engines, I'll watch every bit of it! Glad to see that a small shop is doing incredible things like this. I'm tired of people just grabbing an LS and "building" it in to whatever when they had no part of actually designing the engine.
Thanks Matt, I will try to get some more homemade engine stuff uploaded again soon. I appreciate the support. Stay tuned I should have something coming soon.
@@GregQuirin thanks! I appreciate it because I've been trying to design a weird engine for years and this is motivating me to get back at it. lol
Thank you so much Greg for posting these great videos. Cheers from Australia.
Your Welcome! Pete was happy to know he has people watching in Australia. Thank You! Greg
UNFRICKINBELIEVABLE!!!
Talk about thinking outside the box!
He is thinking outside this world!!!
LOVE IT!!!
I am not just anxious to see the progress, I'm super anxious
Thank you for making these videos. For a gearhead it doesn't get any better. I wish I could hit the like button a thousand times.
Glad you like them! Thanks for the positive comments. I'm trying to improve my videos as I'm not a pro and learning on the fly. It is very motivating for me knowing folks like your are enjoying the video features. Stay tuned I will get you some more content soon! Thanks- Greg
I am a Gearhead myself if you enjoy this kind of videos go break the badd news to your wife lol. Did you tell her that when you got married if not that is grounds for A Divot lol
can t wait to see the V8 version as well. there are so many questions. those guys rule.
They built two 12 cylinder engines one of them is friggen huge 10 litres or something like that
What did he say it is for? A hot rod? Those two guys already made a lot of impressive V engines. Maybe they can build a 120° flat-plane V8 for a low profile hood like the inline-4. I mean, if they use Nissan cams, the crank has to be flat.
20 liters th-cam.com/video/yhLOl4rEi6E/w-d-xo.html here is the video
This is true craftsmanship and definitely an underrated channel this is awesome. Not your standard with slap parts on an LS and turbo stuff 🙏💪
I am 62 You are my Dad, Oldest Brother, LOL I like the new welder.
I am blown away. That guy is sharp!
I appreciate a channel like this more than most of the automotive offerings on TH-cam these days. Never heard of these gents until this morning and now I'm on the 5th video of yours. I can only dream about having even a fraction of the knowledge, creativity and pure dedication these guys have to the craft. Rad
Thank you very much Michael! This is even more inspiring for me knowing folks like you are enjoying the authenticity of this content. I will have some more content uploaded soon so stay tuned! Happy New Year! Greg
Ive just recently discovered Pete Aardema, Keven Braun and their engines... I can't get enough of the content.. its fascinating watching the fabrication and the engineering going into these engines.. if you want it done right do it yourself.. I love it
Thank you and we appreciate the positive comments. Pete and Kevin are magical when it comes to making HP. Next race is on 11/11/23 we will have the cameras rolling and a video posted shortly after. Thank you Greg
Thank you! Brain is super happy after this!
I would love to here this welder in person! Its insane the sounds these machine make burning thick pieces of metal! I can't wait to here this motor fired up and see how y'all are going to build the turbo setup! Awesome job guys!
I think he is kinda winging it, thats not how a trained coded welder would weld that.
Thanks for posting these legends!
Such a fan of these two guys! Real hardcore
Thank You !
Thank you so much for putting this together
These guys used to end up in hot rod every once and a while and I would always read that article first.. this is what hot rodding is all about. The knowledge racked inside these guys brains must be inmence. They should have someone covering them all the time..
This is some incredible stuff. I absolutely love this content. So cool to see dudes are able to live their dreams and fiddle with motors.
Glad you enjoy it! thank you for watching!
Awesome video, I'm getting into welding and it's been so satisfying I can't wait to see where this new skill takes me!
Right on! Keep us posted! Thanks for watching our videos.
So much knowledge here, I love the content on this channel. What a dream it would be to work for, and learn from these gentlemen!
Our pleasure! I'm going to try and film more video today! thanks for watching.
the talent of these men is mind blowing
A mad man with mad skills!
These guys are my new heroes!
G'day from West Australia, Greg😉
Thanks for sharing awesome insights, and please thank these talented men for me.🙂
Really does mean a lot to see men like my Father create.
As a 3rd gen Engineer forced to do hum drum stuff for a living till I finally have enough machinery to create once again!!!
Helps a lot with my focus, on my real passion of creating what I want to create.
Sincerly Steve.
Thank you Steve Veness, I told Pete today he has several fans in Australia. He loves your county and has raced there many years ago! We will for sure keep lot of great stuff coming your way! Thank you again for the positive comments. I appreciate it, Greg
@@GregQuirin 😉🙂👍👍 Credit where credit due, is my motto🙂
These guys are just so amazing....
thanks for the making these videos! these guys are amazing.
These guys are pretty fascinating
I am amazed when Old School Mechanic designed an Engine from scratch without using any CAD software just like these men.
These guys motivate me to do more with my life
That's awesome Jack! I feel the same way receiving these positive comments from folks like you. This is inspiring for me as well to make more videos for everyone.
These guys are amazing, thanks for getting us a view! Subscribed
Thanks for the sub! I'm hopeful to grow this channel and get some more content uploaded soon. I appreciate the support! Greg
Awesome these gentlemen have some great skills
Thanks you for Watching - Please check out some of our other cool videos! Thanks, Greg
Man these guys are 'too much' genius
thank you so much. I love these guys. What kind of bearings are they running? And are they running a rear main bearing in the front of that engine to take all the torque? I love stuff like this.
So what do you specialise in?
Yes 😂
What an amazing team and an incredible workshop 👍
This is incredible!!! i was actually thinking it would be amazing to see this kind of engine configuration in a sports car the other day!!! i will follow this man very closely from now on, thanks for letting us know of him
Nice work
Very interesting build, I’m surprised there are so many 180 degree turns in the driveline, it seems like that would have more parasitic loss
Not really. It's less than putting in 90's... that's why front wheel drive car engines are sideways. You can use straight cut gears to eliminate thrust problems on the shafts everything is straight line. The most losses you have in a conventional vehicle is the differential out back. Now I"m not talking about driving characteristics, I'm just saying mechanical efficiency. Personally I think all front drive vehicles handle like shit.
These guys make me want to move to California and apprentice with them.
If you move to California just remember $5 dollar a gallon gas, lots of traffic, mostly Telsa's and Priuses, 2 bedroom apartment avg rent. $2600, 3 bedroom house $3500 to $6000 a month depending on the neighborhood . But you will have sun in the winter. I'm a car guy and learning lots of new stuff by hanging out with Pete and Kevin.
As a welder who routinely welds aluminum, I recognize that strange green glow!
This is exactly what makes California racers different: they don’t just center on domestic “American Muscle”, they have respect for all brands!… Keep up the good work!
Well said! Pete and Kevin look at all engine designs and even incorporate foreign and domestic parts in some of the engines they build.
Pure magic 👌👍
His weld are (Chefs kiss)
Definitely got to go back to school . Who teaches metal work
I really like seeing this stuff. The engineering and welding engines together.
I will do my best to get some more content soon!
@@GregQuirin maybe one on installing the cylinder sleeves, I think they are using wet sleeves.
Wow, could spend everyday of the year there.
I really wish to be able to do this some day. Its kind of a dream I have. I love engines and I dont know why.
I got Del West valves in my v-twin motorcycle. I love me some titanium engine parts.
I built a Snowmobile like that in 1986, with an 300Hp Olds Quad 4 and a turbo 125.
Old mate's cheeky smile when he says "12K RPM" what a legend!
That sounds like a lot of revs, but for 2.0L land speed record naturally aspirated engines and also the 1.5L and 3.0L record holders, there must be a lot of engines at Bonneville pulling higher rpm than that.
Front row seats to this party!
so cool to see this kind of thing. would be great if you could follow a project (or two) - like this one with - regular updates.
My goal is to feature as much as possible. I will for sure be doing updates!
What a genius
Pete and Kevin are one of a kind!
Yet another great video! Thanks from subscriber 2370. ;-)
Thanks for subscribing. I'm still trying to figure out this TH-cam thing and make quality videos that appeal to everyone!
That is one hell of a main girdle.....
Nothing in the world sounds more Beautiful than A V12. In 1987 I went to work for North American van lines (EliteFleet) hauling Race cars&High value Collectsbles. I Hauled A white. Dude berg for a Elderly Lady we went to a Airport and Drove it for Her she was Thrilled to death and I was too she PAID three million for it. She said she always wanted one cause her grandfather had one when she was a little girl the music of that car omg we went to third gear. The transmission in it was not synchronized so it grinned a hair when you shifted it
These are the grandpas we all wish we had
Easy enough. All I would need is time, money, and all the right tooling. Your next mission, should you chose to accept it: A 2.0L inline four cyl 2-stroke using Honda CR500 as a base. And I want to see segmented cone pipes. And it has to fit all Miata's and S-2000's
Just purchased an aluminum welding spool gun, so I can start modifying the intake systerm of my Corvair engine, which has two 90 degree turns I intend on eradicating and will go w/ separate carbs/throttle bodies for each cylinder. My hope is to get 300 HP from a 2.9L engine, which will kick the RPM range up around 8K RPM mark, but should handle the revs due to the opposed-cylinder configuration. Fingers crossed.
Keep us posted! Sounds pretty cool!
Get your material super clean and the welds won't be sooty like this gentleman's were
@@clevelandmortician3887 aluminum is essentially a sponge when it comes to contaminates. What I am curious about is if the weld zone was pre heated prior to welding. With a billet block that thick it is going to suck the heat out of the weld as soon as it is done, which could lead to stress cracks down the line (due to rapid cooling and shrinking of the weld)
I have been a pipe welder for over 30 years. Personally I would have used a tig to do the welding on this.
Would love to see a barra style head for the Ford 300/4.9.??
Love to be there shadow for a year or two.
I'm kind of just absorbing all of these cool experiences. I'm honored to have the opportunity to hang out with Pete and Kevin and both Drivers; Cal and Scott. These are great people, no drama, no attitude's, no tuff guy BS or crazy egos.
is nobody going to mention old man watching the weld with his bare eyes? epic af
He not looking directly at the light, The engine block is shielding the arch. Pete has been around this stuff his entire life so he's pretty conditioned to his work environment.
@@GregQuirin 0:10 tell me he's it looking square into the arc
@@theawb6986 It kind of looks like he's looking right at it. But a guy who's been around welders as long as he has been will not be looking right into the arc.
@@siggyincr7447 I've been welding for at least 12 years now. It doesn't take much exposure to ruin your day. Needless to say, it's best to avoid any sort of uv light. If I don't coverup my skin when I weld I go to sleep at night smelling like microwaved chicken skin. Just a friendly reminder to anyone who wants to get into to engineering and fabrication, what you can't see hurts more. And what hurts the most is when you can't see.
One bad ass engine. I say spin it to 10,000 rpm then hit with nitros for an instant giggle. That will do it.
What crankshaft are they going to use? Pontiac Super duty?
I’d run the power take off gear close to the block, and the cam gear farther from the block.
Flip their positions.
Less leverage on the crank snout.
Question? The welding gun has a wire spool. Are you guys MIG welding these engines or are TIG welding these?
With the skills these guys have I’d love to see if they could do a 8 cylinder boxer engine
I'm sure they could do that with no problem if Pete was up to it. I will mention it to Pete, however in Pete's world it needs to make lot of HP and in theory work well in land speed racing applications.
The 8 cylinder boxer engines like the ones used in the Porsche 908, are some of my favourite engines, but for land speed records, you need low frontal area and boxer engines are wide. Take a look at the Nebulous Theorem, which holds some of the records in those low capacity streamliner classes and it has a very low frontal area.
Seem like a lot of drive line drag for a tiny 4 popper.
Those straight cut gears will make one hell of a noise, but probably not loud enough to hear over that engine. LOL
It's like a lay-down Offy.
This is what happens when brilliant old engineers get bored
I did a 292 gmc bored to 301 and cut two 351 4v Cleveland heads then welder then together made Hillsborn.injecsion got 450 hp need to make rod longer to see get more power
how much would this usually cost to have done? And is there life expectancy with these?
Look at that weld you got to love these people well folks I have a new channel im Subscribed I wonder it the welder has a channel
dry sump oiling? anyway very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They ran Indy Offy's horizontally, so it's been done successfully.
Do these fabricated engines usually come out lighter than mass manufactured aluminum engines ?
Oh damn😮
Hey I am trying to re create a ford model A pickup truck from the 20s and I wanna know if it is possible to try and re create a smaller functioning version of the same inline 4 cylinder engine that powered the car when they were pushed off the assembly line
We're ready for the ice ban 😂
That looks like a SBC, BBC bell housing,
The price of used NASCAR valves is astounding but the sizes are odd and only work in custom applications. But if you've got the machining capability they're a screaming deal.
Thanks for these videos. Is going to be for a naturally aspirated 2.0L land speed record car or for a turbo?
My guess is it will be natural at first them fuel class and perhaps boosted to capture as many records as possible. I will ask and find out for sure. Thanks Greg
@@GregQuirin Thanks Greg, for blown 2.0 L class, the Honda F20/K20 series engine might be the target, but from my understanding, these are some of the Bonneville records holders for the naturally aspirated F, G and H engine classes.
F/GS - Barnyard Bearcat, 3x 1000cc Suzuki GSX-R 1000 motorcycle engines (250cc/cylinder)
F/FS - CMR New Zealand/Reg Cook, Judd V10 3.0L (300cc/cylinder)
G/GS, G/FCC, G/GC and G/GALT - CMR New Zealand/Reg Cook, Synergy V8 (250cc/cylinder). Synergy V8 was used in the CMR streamliner until the 2018 season and in 2018 was used in the CMR Nissan coupe which set the G/FCC record and others.
G/FS - This record was held by the CMR streamliner, but from my understanding the new record holder from 2021 is using 2x 1000cc three cylinder engines for a total of six cylinders (333cc/cylinder). Would love to know more about this one if you even catch it on video.
H/GS and H/FS - Rick Yacoucci, Suzuki Hayabusa 1350cc motorcycle engine (338cc/cylinder).
All smaller than 350cc per cylinder, short stroke and high revs.
Can you show what they use to resize the valve heads? Is it just an old school valve grinder?
Daniel, I will be posting information about the valve job soon. Stay tuned. Greg