I thought I would share this time lapsed video. I wish I had an engine building lab like theirs when I was building engines.
Amazing what you don't see: The video never showed the ports or combustion chambers and the blower inlet is blurred during the disassembly and reassembly.
The cam sprocket is crazy super-engineered and the splines on the front of the crank look more like a transmission output shaft. Far cry from a simple key and keyway.
At 5:41, next to the vise in the background, is some Redline assembly lube.
Cool vid though, that hole into the blower must be super special to them, which, of all the things you wouldn't want to show I wouldn't have thought that would be blur-worthy.
I agree.If you can, go to a NHRA event and watch the pits between rounds as they thrash on the engines to get them torndown and rebuilt.
Amazing what you don't see: The video never showed the ports or combustion chambers and the blower inlet is blurred during the disassembly and reassembly.
Wonder what's so top secret on the blower inlet?
Dry sump oil pumpWhat's the cylindrical thing which has 'XRP" on it? It was attached to the front left of the engine DURING disassembly.
Visible at 1:11 and later during reassembly.
MC820S...J/K...none
I ate at that restaurant across the parking lotI can only imagine what a team like DSR has for an ARP bill every year. I try and use their hardware whenever possible, the people that work there are super nice. Their office is just south of me in Ventura and their products are made not far away from that in Santa Paula. Anytime I have gone to their office the workers have been incredibly friendly and helpful.
There are you tube videos about Top fuel engines
No team is going to give up key aspects of their program...