they are pretty but also even OEM used parts are 2k and up aka $$$ super expensive, not sure 🤔why vs 440-platform $$ as it's cousin but compared with a big block Chevy'$ wow mopar has a tax on the top-end parts to bad most are covered up ( clear or glass isn't common but cool to see in side 👍 ) in the engine bay but at least K-valve cover's castings magnesium/crome per-1975 look nice 👍so sexy
i love the art of an engine and how therapeutic building one is. the muscle memory of knowing your tools, the feel of your mics, and the smell of a machine shop. the smile and giggles u get hearing it for the first time. i built bug engines to Dodges and they all made me feel 16 again hear my first engine build. thank for your time sir, making videos is time consuming. again thank u.
Not to mention it shows your in real life it's not staged ect I love the real side hearing banging in the back is music to my ears personally and it tells me people are working which is sorely lacking in this day and age.
@@devinej8411 you sir couldn't be more correct. This country is goin to hell n a hand basket.... no one wants to work anymore just sit on couch and collect checks from gov't . Sad indeed
Everything about a Hemi is just beautiful. Amazing. And I have to say it’s reassuring to see a total expert struggle a little with the Chrysler main seal bridge side seals. I’ve done it on a stock 440 in my garage, in the car, without a lift. Loads of fun and I practically didn’t sleep the night before I was going to do it. But 28 years later, she still holds oil! That was back with the old felt-like side seals.
Its amazing to see what modern CAD and CNC has done to an engine that was designed 60 years ago. The thing is am absolute piece of art to look at. Amazing !.
Your SMX and SML as well as the Noonan stuff is just amazing high horsepower artwork! Really enjoy all of the information you put out in the videos Steve!
Love watching you go through the process of BUILDING a motor from scratch. I build vintage race engines, mostly old European V12s, and the dummy build, dismantle, machine, refit, test, final assemble, dyno ect process is the same. Attention to detail, and proper seat of the pants engineering. Would love to come work in your shop. Keep up the good work, all that billet is AWESOME .
Many years ago when I was building my first stroker engine and ran into clearance issues. So naturally I went and started reading every engine building book I owned looking for guidance on how much and how to do it (because what else do you do when you are in your early 20’s and it’s late at night while assembling an engine that is supposed to bolt together). That weekend I went racing with a buddy of mine who ran Super Comp at a NHRA Divisional Event. One of the guys he raced with in Super Comp with was good friends with Tom Martino who happened to stop by his trailer and Ken told Tom I had a question about engine clearance issues. Tom kindly listened to questions and asked me about my engine combination and told my camshaft was wrong and besides giving me lots of advice he also gave me new-used cam and set of lifters (that honestly looked brand new) that he said would work for my application much better. As for the along advice he gave me about clearance for the block and rods or heads for pushrods it was the exact same as what Steve just said if you have clearance you have clearance and you only need a gnats @ss more because if the connecting rod or pushrods flexes, grows or bows while the engine is running you got bigger fish to fry than your connecting rods or pushrods.
I think it says a LOT about the confidence Steve has in his own products and the enthusiasm that he has in general for the art of engine building that he's happy to make an hour long video showing him assembling somebody else's arguably competing product. And really not bad talking anything about it. Though I'm only halfway through :D :D :D
How far things have come in 50 years and the precision these engines are, Plus they are a thing of Beauty as well as making Huge amounts of Horsepower ,Just awesome Steve
The engineering and attention to detail that went into that engine is amazing. No stones left unturned. I found the timing gear on the crankshaft to be quite unique. I'd like to see more of that in a later video. Thanks for a look into a most impressive engine.
I'm pretty sure they don't do that because of heads getting decked. That work would throw that sealing surface off. Ores better to use right stuff instead
Well, that hour just FLEW by. Steve, you are the most entertaining engine builder on the internet. BY FAR!!! Thanks for all the enthusiasm and smiles as you put these masterpieces together. So much fun to watch. 😃😃😃
You can have a nice over head cam V8. Top Fuel guys proved that back in the day with the 427 SOHC cammer. They found the chain to be the weak link and set up a gear drive for them. It works great and the engines sound great with it.
They are and more dependable that's why otger shops use their stuff XRE uses Noonan and that's what Daddy Dave has in his new car and crybaby Justin just bought an XRE.
Im in the UK, I m a regular mechanic, ive pulled the heads on one hemi (srt 300c) never even put a spanner to an LS engine. ive built and tuned an insane amount of 4v/cylinder engines. I always heard people refer to big bore v8 valves as dinner plates on sticks, but obviously never seen it in context. thank you for the videos.
The high-dollar engines that are bringing built nowadays are nothing more than a work of art. In 1991 I was twenty years old and i had a 540 cub inch engine built with aluminum block and heads. At the time I thought it couldn't get any better than that. Lol lol OK if you say so
This got my inner mopar breathing heavily. And I will forever love the look and complexity of the hemi valvetrain no matter how unreliable. Those heads are works of art, if Picasso built an engine it would be a hemi forsure
Really enjoyed the tutorial on different cylinder head types. There was a company about 10 or so years ago called Coates that created something they called the Coates Spherical Rotary Valve system. It was supposedly near zero-drag with no valves. I'd have loved to see how that would have worked on a billet Hemi engine like this with almost no theoretical redline.
For me, this is the epitome of state-of-the-ART; with an emphasis on art, as I think both the machinery and skills in putting it together are simply something amazing to behold. Imagine was Michelangelo, or DaVinci would say!!!!
the oiling system to the top- end to the rockers of that hemi is not to far off of the old 390 427 ford fe engines and wanted to say your content and skills are awesome and just watched the video of how you got your start and that was great and i agree need more old school machine shops that are becoming few and far between now but hats off to you great stuff!!!
It's just wild to me how you can see so clearly through the valve port in the heads to their respective manifold ports. It almost makes it look like a straight tube it's so open
It appears you were handed a bunch of parts, and the customer trusted you to get them all in properly. Given the expense of the engine, that's a huge amount of trust.
Excellent episode a man of many skills finding out what doesn't work then makes improvement's. Thank you team Steve for posting all the great videos on your TH-cam channel .
Those main studs with the built in locators for the Caps are genius. You would think that you would see them used more for blocks who's mains that aren't pinned.
For a second there I thought you were going to have to tear it down again, it's always damage during shipping or lost packages that delays builds it seems like, anyways that is one good looking engine, watching you systematically build engines is super cool, amazing work
Love learning about this I’m in the process of turning my S10 into a drag and drive vehicle now got old school sbc about 650 NA but fixing to go bigger one day I’ll have an SMX
Steve. I just want to say that I appreciate all of the information that you share so freely like you do. You are a legend. I love how much you do for the advancement of humanity!!!
just got my cam for my low deck mopar, wish i could have talked to you.900 bucks for a cam was allot of money but i believe in your asymmetrical lobe ideas and i want to rev this thing. Cant wait to put boost to it. thanks for getting it done!
Don’t know if you planned it or not but it was cool seeing the head bolt pattern on your block in the background compared to the noonan block!!! You can see the round bolt pattern over the offset pattern of the noonan! It makes sense your block has a much better seal!!!
Goin back rewatching some older videos and shouldve left this comment on the killa b video but its jist very cool the way you can just make things happen. You guys make it work, make it fit make it fast. And thats awesome.
My lord....what a beautifully engineered work of art. Seems like a shame to hide it under a car hood. I'd almost rather have it at the foot of my bed so I could stair at it every night in bed until I fall asleep...lol
Hey Steve, remember to turn the Lav mic on and off between takes so the battery doesn't die on ya. Noticed that the Lav mic died, and the camera mic quality kicked in at about the half way point. Us old deaf guys have a hard time understanding it... too many years of listening to loud motors! : D Great video... thanks for taking us along!
with the amount of time your dog spends observing the work in the shop I bet he knows more about precision engine assembly than most people.
Knows more then me for sure. Damn a dog is smarter then me
The name of the shop has been changed to Dewey Morris Engine's!!
He runs the shop, Steve is in training and just the pretty face for the camera 😂
Hemi valve trains are beautiful. They look like something that would be in the Terminator.
they are pretty but also even OEM used parts are 2k and up aka $$$ super expensive, not sure 🤔why vs 440-platform $$ as it's cousin but compared with a big block Chevy'$ wow mopar has a tax on the top-end parts
to bad most are covered up ( clear or glass isn't common but cool to see in side 👍 ) in the engine bay but at least K-valve cover's castings magnesium/crome per-1975 look nice 👍so sexy
Man, that Hemi is beautiful! All those pieces that make up the cam drive and blower drive are just like jewelry.
i love the art of an engine and how therapeutic building one is. the muscle memory of knowing your tools, the feel of your mics, and the smell of a machine shop. the smile and giggles u get hearing it for the first time. i built bug engines to Dodges and they all made me feel 16 again hear my first engine build. thank for your time sir, making videos is time consuming. again thank u.
In this day and age of what we are going thru, NEVER EVER apologize for back round busy sounds. Just keep going!
Not to mention it shows your in real life it's not staged ect I love the real side hearing banging in the back is music to my ears personally and it tells me people are working which is sorely lacking in this day and age.
@@devinej8411 you sir couldn't be more correct. This country is goin to hell n a hand basket.... no one wants to work anymore just sit on couch and collect checks from gov't . Sad indeed
Everything about a Hemi is just beautiful. Amazing. And I have to say it’s reassuring to see a total expert struggle a little with the Chrysler main seal bridge side seals. I’ve done it on a stock 440 in my garage, in the car, without a lift. Loads of fun and I practically didn’t sleep the night before I was going to do it. But 28 years later, she still holds oil! That was back with the old felt-like side seals.
Its amazing to see what modern CAD and CNC has done to an engine that was designed 60 years ago. The thing is am absolute piece of art to look at. Amazing !.
all dogs love hemi engines .
Your SMX and SML as well as the Noonan stuff is just amazing high horsepower artwork! Really enjoy all of the information you put out in the videos Steve!
Good to see you acknowledge that Dewey has been supervising.
Love watching you go through the process of BUILDING a motor from scratch. I build vintage race engines, mostly old European V12s, and the dummy build, dismantle, machine, refit, test, final assemble, dyno ect process is the same. Attention to detail, and proper seat of the pants engineering. Would love to come work in your shop. Keep up the good work, all that billet is AWESOME .
Many years ago when I was building my first stroker engine and ran into clearance issues. So naturally I went and started reading every engine building book I owned looking for guidance on how much and how to do it (because what else do you do when you are in your early 20’s and it’s late at night while assembling an engine that is supposed to bolt together). That weekend I went racing with a buddy of mine who ran Super Comp at a NHRA Divisional Event. One of the guys he raced with in Super Comp with was good friends with Tom Martino who happened to stop by his trailer and Ken told Tom I had a question about engine clearance issues. Tom kindly listened to questions and asked me about my engine combination and told my camshaft was wrong and besides giving me lots of advice he also gave me new-used cam and set of lifters (that honestly looked brand new) that he said would work for my application much better. As for the along advice he gave me about clearance for the block and rods or heads for pushrods it was the exact same as what Steve just said if you have clearance you have clearance and you only need a gnats @ss more because if the connecting rod or pushrods flexes, grows or bows while the engine is running you got bigger fish to fry than your connecting rods or pushrods.
The shop noise really wasn't that bad, to be honest I was so focused on looking at the engine and what you were saying I didn't notice at first lol.
I think it says a LOT about the confidence Steve has in his own products and the enthusiasm that he has in general for the art of engine building that he's happy to make an hour long video showing him assembling somebody else's arguably competing product. And really not bad talking anything about it. Though I'm only halfway through :D :D :D
How far things have come in 50 years and the precision these engines are, Plus they are a thing of Beauty as well as making Huge amounts of Horsepower ,Just awesome Steve
The engineering and attention to detail that went into that engine is amazing. No stones left unturned. I found the timing gear on the crankshaft to be quite unique. I'd like to see more of that in a later video. Thanks for a look into a most impressive engine.
Even if you're not a mopar guy, it's hard to be not impressed by hemi engines. That engine is a beast and those ports are amazing.
Super fascinating stuff Steve !
Thanks for bringing us along for the lessons .
First time ever watching a hemi being put together. Love the detailed explanations. I definitely plan on watching more of your videos! Great content!
Love the intro. I always learn something when I watch these videos.
The o-rings on the hemi heads are pretty slick. fire ring, head gasket . O-rings on the intake and rocker covers 👌😅Beautiful machine work 👍
Would have been nice if it had an oring for intake/valley cover so it didn’t need sealant in just one area.
I'm pretty sure they don't do that because of heads getting decked. That work would throw that sealing surface off. Ores better to use right stuff instead
Well, that hour just FLEW by. Steve, you are the most entertaining engine builder on the internet. BY FAR!!! Thanks for all the enthusiasm and smiles as you put these masterpieces together. So much fun to watch. 😃😃😃
You can have a nice over head cam V8. Top Fuel guys proved that back in the day with the 427 SOHC cammer. They found the chain to be the weak link and set up a gear drive for them. It works great and the engines sound great with it.
What a magnificent power plant!! Thanks Steve
Hemi heads just look awesome - great to watch a master at work 👍
Those Noonan engines look so much nicer then the prolines.
They are and more dependable that's why otger shops use their stuff XRE uses Noonan and that's what Daddy Dave has in his new car and crybaby Justin just bought an XRE.
Than
@@internationaldynoauthority693 🤣
Steve is the definition of cool and by far one of the most enjoyable guys to listen to on YT!!!
3👍's up Steve Morris thank you for sharing your Great experience with us all
Awesome video!!! Thank you, Steve!!
Thanks for taking on the Noonan experience with you Steve. As always so much good information.
Like always. Thanks man for teaching us everything you do. My pup says to tell your pup ,hi lol
Im in the UK, I m a regular mechanic, ive pulled the heads on one hemi (srt 300c) never even put a spanner to an LS engine. ive built and tuned an insane amount of 4v/cylinder engines. I always heard people refer to big bore v8 valves as dinner plates on sticks, but obviously never seen it in context. thank you for the videos.
This man has so much knowledge on engines it’s crazy! I learn something amazing every time I watch his videos.
You sir are a legend. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, and being so transparent.
I've got no business watching this ... but watch I do, every second.
The high-dollar engines that are bringing built nowadays are nothing more than a work of art.
In 1991 I was twenty years old and i had a 540 cub inch engine built with aluminum block and heads.
At the time I thought it couldn't get any better than that.
Lol lol OK if you say so
This got my inner mopar breathing heavily. And I will forever love the look and complexity of the hemi valvetrain no matter how unreliable. Those heads are works of art, if Picasso built an engine it would be a hemi forsure
If you had seen any of Picasso’s paintings you would realize the engine equivalent would be a blown up Briggs and Stratton covered in dog crap.
@@krtacct😂😂
@@krtacct lmao thats pretty funny. I was more hinting at the new meme going around... "I like it, picasso"
@@krtacct True.
DaVinci is the artist you're looking for
Beautiful engine from Noonan a great Aussie company. 🇦🇺👍
Awesome video!! Thanks for imparting your knowledge. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks Steve for explaining that wild hemi valve train set up! Definitely some give and take for HUGE valves. Not always best.
Cheers Steve , I really did learn something , your a great teacher .
Appreciate your hard work doing all the videos.
It’s cool to get to see inside one of those! Nice looking piece.
Outstanding build. I'm really looking forward to seeing this one on the Dyno.
Great information , and lots of real nice eye candy ! Thanks so much Steve .
I like the way Steve says “that’s fine…” Reminds me of a southern person telling ya to “have a blessed day” if ya know what I mean
I've never enjoyed something I know so little about ever before!
Even with his busy schedule Steve still takes time to make these videos!!! Wat a legend!!!!
Really enjoyed the tutorial on different cylinder head types. There was a company about 10 or so years ago called Coates that created something they called the Coates Spherical Rotary Valve system. It was supposedly near zero-drag with no valves. I'd have loved to see how that would have worked on a billet Hemi engine like this with almost no theoretical redline.
As always impressive the info you share. Thanks
These videos are badass I need to take notes on how to stay calm when headaches show up. Getting towards the end and having that be out of round.
Love seeing you work with The Garage Shop!! Those guys do awesome work
A true inspiration for quality and build integrity,thanks Steve.
Loving the progress Matt you are getting after it. Love that turbo setup .
thanks for posting Steve
Steve your videos will be inspiring for future engine builders for sure. This will help everyone. 👌👌👌
Really ..really interesting stuff... Many thanks for taking the time to explain what's going on.
For me, this is the epitome of state-of-the-ART; with an emphasis on art, as I think both the machinery and skills in putting it together are simply something amazing to behold.
Imagine was Michelangelo, or DaVinci would say!!!!
And that dog is GORGEOUS!!😍
Brilliant insight, thanks Steve!! It's like you've done this before! Appreciate your content!@❤
That will be very cool in a duster! Great video!!!
Someday I will own the best engine ever…… a Steve Morris built engine 😎
Love that with as far as things go a hammer handle is still the best way to install pistons.
the oiling system to the top- end to the rockers of that hemi is not to far off of the old 390 427 ford fe engines and wanted to say your content and skills are awesome and just watched the video of how you got your start and that was great and i agree need more old school machine shops that are becoming few and far between now but hats off to you great stuff!!!
It's just wild to me how you can see so clearly through the valve port in the heads to their respective manifold ports. It almost makes it look like a straight tube it's so open
Great vid! Thanks for explaining as you went along.
Cool video, i really enjoyed the comparisons between the hemi and SMX. Thanks Steve!
Ax Man swears by these Hemi engines He has said they are extremely hard to hurt and its the only engine he'll run
Thank you for taking care of Vances engines, i know you are the right man for the job !
It appears you were handed a bunch of parts, and the customer trusted you to get them all in properly. Given the expense of the engine, that's a huge amount of trust.
Dam thats an amazing build beautiful motor would love to have one
Excellent episode a man of many skills finding out what doesn't work then makes improvement's. Thank you team Steve for posting all the great videos on your TH-cam channel .
thanks Steve
Awesome brother he’ll yeah thanks for sharing wow that intake port was almost twice as big
Those main studs with the built in locators for the Caps are genius. You would think that you would see them used more for blocks who's mains that aren't pinned.
This is awesome. Love these videos.
I was watching the video when ypu first mentioned this and had been waiting for a while for this one!! 🤘🏻😊👌
For a second there I thought you were going to have to tear it down again, it's always damage during shipping or lost packages that delays builds it seems like, anyways that is one good looking engine, watching you systematically build engines is super cool, amazing work
Nobody ships a 100 k. Plus motor. They most likely hire private shipping or deliver personally
Hone job looks super fine, very smooth.
That engine is just plain beautiful Steve. Looking forward to seeing it on the dyno.
This was a fantastic video
I miss turning wrenches. Keep up the great work!
Great content thanks for sharing
The fact that any engine is producing over 2khp let alone 3k and 4k at 8-10k rpm will always be simple engineering done in an amazingly awesome way.
Thanx sm you rock bro
Thanks
$6500 Rocker Arms lol I just about spit my coffee out of my mouth when I saw the name Manton
Would love to see you Viper Billet V10 also! Thanks for sharing this beautiful Hemi with us molar guys!
Love learning about this I’m in the process of turning my S10 into a drag and drive vehicle now got old school sbc about 650 NA but fixing to go bigger one day I’ll have an SMX
Steve. I just want to say that I appreciate all of the information that you share so freely like you do. You are a legend. I love how much you do for the advancement of humanity!!!
We ask for more and get a hour vid :). Going to have to wait tell I have a beer in my hand to watch it.
just got my cam for my low deck mopar, wish i could have talked to you.900 bucks for a cam was allot of money but i believe in your asymmetrical lobe ideas and i want to rev this thing. Cant wait to put boost to it. thanks for getting it done!
Always good to see a ... subject matter expert on the job.. ;)
Don’t know if you planned it or not but it was cool seeing the head bolt pattern on your block in the background compared to the noonan block!!! You can see the round bolt pattern over the offset pattern of the noonan! It makes sense your block has a much better seal!!!
I need to do my dishes , which in turn finally gives me the time to watch your informative video.....thanks Steve 👍
Goin back rewatching some older videos and shouldve left this comment on the killa b video but its jist very cool the way you can just make things happen. You guys make it work, make it fit make it fast. And thats awesome.
Very cool, well done!
My lord....what a beautifully engineered work of art. Seems like a shame to hide it under a car hood. I'd almost rather have it at the foot of my bed so I could stair at it every night in bed until I fall asleep...lol
Hey Steve, remember to turn the Lav mic on and off between takes so the battery doesn't die on ya. Noticed that the Lav mic died, and the camera mic quality kicked in at about the half way point. Us old deaf guys have a hard time understanding it... too many years of listening to loud motors! : D
Great video... thanks for taking us along!
Steve Morris Tech College 💪💪💪 great video excellent class Sir 🙏