I always love cars like that so big it good.

(laughs) (tires squealing) I'm very nervous but this one.

Yeah it's not something you might mess around with the $500 hood of somebody else you want to make sure you cut got it right the first time And there's no real second time if you do it wrong.

(grinding) Every car has a story.

(car roars by) Like the best thing ever.

(truck rumbles by) For some, they end up here.

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(car honk ) Tire dash Tag dot com Additional funding provided by Nutrafarms and Hagerty Insurance In this episode, we take a look at the modifications done to a 1966 Chevelle, giving it a few more horsepower.

(engine revs) This is one of our next projects coming up.

The 66 Chevelle, we're doing a supercharged big block Chevy motor for it.

These are the cylinder heads that we've just finished making some changes to, to allow some more flow through it.

This car will have just over 1000 horsepower.

And as we've we originally did the car about four years ago, body paint, interior, and now he's back for bigger upgrades for the motor can never have enough horsepower.

So you know that right?

You can never have enough horsepower.

If you get a thousand, you want 1200.

It just keeps going.

My name's Harold Prince, and the car behind me is the 1966 sports Chevelle.

I was on the market looking for a car and potentially I was going to get a roadrunner until this thing came up.

And then I had to go off to Quebec area to find it.

So as I went over there, I noticed on the advertising they had a 1966 for sale.

So I went and took a look at it and fell in love with it.

And I started from there.

Oh, the engine.

It's a 454 and they're putting in a 871 blower carbs there, depending on the size of the carbs And it's just more for a car show, street show car.

I always love cars like that so.

Big is good.

(laughs) (tires squeal) Hi, I'm Marcus, and I work as a technician here at Radical Rods and Rides, and we build engines, transmissions, rear ends, brake systems, customizing all sorts of fabrication things here.

And that's what I do here at Radical.

I put together just regular street engines, but also I've gone into alcohol, funny car engines, nitro funny car engines, things like that to make things work with that.

On the race team, those on pretty much build anything really I could do.

V-12 inline sixes to the four cylinders that you see on the street.

What I'm doing today is that we're going to some of the bottom end of this actual big block Chevy because we're going to do it the right way.

We've got good quality studs in here, which are actually an aftermarket quality piece, because I'll show you the difference of the factory.

One, you can see the difference.

The shank is actually got a taper to it and it's got a top part head.

The way they manufacture these differently is actually this part here tapers out of the bolt, big shank through here and then goes back to the thread.

So it's actually stabilizes the main cap a lot nicer.

So this way it actually holds better, better clamping force.

Now, one thing I always like to mention is that when you do, especially bottom ends, you always just set the crankshaft in there.

Don't put your main caps and don't even put your studs in if you're going to use studs because you have a way of actually nicking the crankshaft as you're dropping it in the actual block itself.

So once a cranks laid in there, then you can put your studs in and get them all assembled up.

Nice.

But also before you even put anything in there like that, you put your crankshaft in, have your bearings, or you sit there, lube the daylights out of them, just lightly roll it and see if the actual crankshaft still rolls and actually just rolling it over like that.

So you can see how the crankshaft just spins nice and freely.

You want to make sure 100% that does that.

If it doesn't do that, you've got a problem that's even without the main caps on because you don't want to have it where you put the main caps on, you torque them down to spe and then all of a sudden it doesn't turn.

Well that's, you got to stop right then and there.

We got these blocks all aligned, honed.

We checked them out ourselves.

We checked the machinist guy that we use, he checks them out.

So we have it where everything gets checked out, like more than just once, all the way from oil and clearances.

Bearing clearances, crush thickness for the bearings itself.

Everything has to be checked out 100% because if you don't do this, it could be a Friday when the machinist is just trying to get stuff together.

this and that, if you don't check his work, well, you can be up the creek without a paddle.

(chuckles) So it's one of those things that you always check other people's work.

It's not something to do as a bad thing.

It's a good thing to do that.

Well, I'll start assembling on the back part of the main cap here, because that's always the first one we like to put down because it's got the thrust bearing in it.

So what the thrust bearing is, is this part of the bearing right here?

This is going to be an automatic car.

There will be some thrusting actually going on.

But stick cars this area here, wears out a lot because the clutch is moving in and out as you're shifting gears so it's actually taking the crankshaft.

I'm over-exaggerating it and move it forward and back, forward and back.

Forward and back.

And then what we're going to do here is I'm going to put a little dab of silicone sealant just on the corners here and on the corners here.

So we're going get some sealant here, dab in the corners here and also like to improvise.

You got to keep everything super, super clean, you know, as clean as possible, just so that when things get done, everything stays nice and clean.

I know this engine's going to be going down the road and all that stuff and there's a lot of road debris, but you kind of want to make sure that this sucker stays nice and clean for assembly (music) There we are.

(music) So there you go.

(ratcheting) And that's it.

Well, since we've got all the Pistons in of this big block Chevy we're actually going to now do the degreeing of the camshaft (music) right there.

It's going to find our maximum here.

You'll see it stop and go back down (music) and that'll be 154.

I just want to run the cylinder head studs in first, go to the bottom out and hand tighten them only when you build engines, everything should be done by hand.

Should never be using air tools or impact tools.

(music) There it is.

This is the base intake panel for the Supercharger, so this has to be dead on straight with all the ports and all the holes and everything else to fasten everything down nice and flat.

So it seems I'm having an issue trying to get the actual hardware in.

It's just a problem with the actual manufacturing of the actual panel.

It could have been, you know, built on a Friday, then on a Monday, who knows?

Maybe it was a weekend.

Maybe the guy that did the machine work had a bad date.

Who knows?

This angle is like a little bit different than this thing for this little bit, but it shouldn't be the same.

Yeah, but if you look at them like this one's a little bit lower than that one, right?

So it should be the same angle, but I'll just take that back out and try her again, (ratcheting) All right.

What we have here is our supercharger kit for our Chevelle.

We finally got it in and we actually go through all the parts and all the pieces that we got in the kit.

You got your blower belts, you got your actual pulleys for your V belts, you got your brackets here for your idler pulley here snout pulley for your actual supercharger crankshaft pulleys Our big supercharger right here.

Big compressor that we have, it's all polished.

It's an 871 supercharger (music) and we're heading down to one of our favorite suppliers this morning, Gorilla Coatings.

They're going to do some throttle blades for us and they a nice purple metallic underlay to match the flame designs on the car.

So we're going to be doing those through gorilla, Got some headers and stuff they're working on for us as well.

Hello.

Good morning.

Good morning.

How are you?

Good, good.

So how did my little throttle plates come out?

Great.

Oh, awesome.

You guys are busy.

Busy?

Look at all the stuff here.

Yeah.

Wow.

Oh, lovely.

Oh, look at that.

Candy purple.

A little candy purple for Harold's Chevelle.

So it's going to look really nice.

Gorilla Coatings does a lot of stuff for us, powder coating and ceramic coating.

So we'll get to look at some of the stuff that they do here.

We've just dropped off some headers as well, so we've got a few set of headers to do, but they do everything from rims to motorcycle parts, so we'll do a little tour.

They can show us what they do.

So what's your recommendation on these?

These are headers for the Firebird and then we have the headers for our pickup truck with our engine.

This, this one we can do the silver you said or the chrome finish, which is right, was that there's a polished ceramic.

Yeah.

Which is the high heat coating is what you want on headers like this.

The new black we have is is a velvet black with a flat lighter or 1800 degree coating.

Amazing.

The one we were talking about with this one is the polished ceramic look is more of a chrome finish.

Right.

It goes on as a wet spray.

Right.

It's more of a white chalky look And then we put it in the oven for an hour at 500 degrees.

We throw in a polisher after that, and that's when it becomes that shiny chrome look.

Right.

So when you put it in and you put it in like a tumbler.

Yes, yes, we do.

Yeah, it's ceramic balls.

Yeah, we had some salt to it.

It just tumbles and hits and polishes it.

Yeah.

And then once, once that's done, we hang them, we dry them and we hand polish every piece.

Right.

Wipe with the autosol.

Hand polish every one after that.

what I really love about this stuff is it pretty much reduces the temperatures under the hood almost 50%?

Yeah, I was going to say around 40% is what it's clocked at.

Yeah.

Especially if you do the inside as well.

Yeah.

We've done digital readouts on.

Yeah.

It's just amazing before and after we've seen that, like you say, high 47%.

Yeah, you're correct.

So spark plug wires and .... Yeah, this stuff is used for missiles and aircrafts, right, from military shuttles.

And that was the original used for.

Yeah, that's right.

It really does work and I stand beside it for sure.

Yeah.

100% stuff.

(machine sounds) This is why I like using the sand aluminum oxide.

It just gives it such a nice finish on the bare metal.

It gives it a real grip, real teeth on there.

And you can see where it was before.

And And now that we sandblasted cleaned the headers for Gary.

down at Radical Rods We've applied a ceramic coating to this one.

This was our ceramic polish coating.

It's already been cured at 500 degrees for one hour.

And you can see it has a chalky white appearance to it.

We're going to go ahead and throw it in the Polisher and make it look chrome nice and shiny.

That's a lot of water.

So these are ceramic balls here (machine sounds) Put the header in there.

(machine rumbles) We're going add some of our powder soap (machine rumbles) Okay, so our header has been in here for about six, 7 minutes now, just about finished Just go ahead and show you how it's coming along.

(machine rumbles) starting to get our shine (machine rumbles) so once it comes out of the machines we rub on the autosol.

and give it a hand polish.

Everything here is done by hand.

(machine polishing) (shop noises) Okay, so basically that's it and we'll go over a little bit better.

The cameras are out of our face, but that's your product right there.

That's called our Polish ceramic (music) This Hood is for the 66 Chevelle that we just put the big block motor in with the blower on it and it sticks out of the hood a fair amount.

So with most Superchargers that sit on top, we have to trim the hood to get it to fit.

Unfortunately, they don't come with the cardboard templates do that.

So basically I kind of have to make it out of a tape line first and then build ourselves into like a plastic cutout and then shape it onto the hood.

This is not something you want to measure once and cut wrong.

So it might be three or four times and cut it right the first time and then it should fit on.

Nice to smooth.

So yeah, we should do it across the back and then across the side to take measurements from the count.

Yeah, yeah, we do one more.

Basically we, we've got our lines drawn up for rough measurements with tape transfer that those measurements over to a flat template basically which we fitted up against the car.

So that's fine.

We can either just to make sure it open or closed around the blower.

So right now we're just measuring off on it on the new hood to make sure that we're going to have enough room and run the right spots.

We don't cut it too far back, too far forward.

And then once we get a rough cut, we'll go test fit the hood on the car and then do our final trim out to make it look nice and smooth and make it work.

I'm very nervous about this one.

Yeah.

It's not something you want to mess around with a $500 hood of somebody else's.

You want to make sure you cut it right the first time and there's no real second time if you do it wrong.

(grinding) Yeah.

So we.

We cut the big hole for the blower in the hood.

So it'll stick out a little bit.

So it's kind of cool, to cut up a brand new hood.

(polishing) (music) there.

I'm actually pretty happy with it.

Everything's going just fine.

Everything's going to plan and there's a lot of things that are made on this car that you can never buy in stores, so it's kind of proud to be able to do that.

It's kind of nice.

Let's try to get this injector hat here to be a little bit more friendlier with all its parts.

Just make it nice and easy.

So we all made all these plates and here like that just in raw form.

So this way we actually opened up the throttle, the throttle blades open up with the actual piece.

So this way it all functions like the proper way it's supposed to.

It's really just for decoration.

But if it functions, it's going to look good.

A lot of guys, just take the blades out and just leave it as three holes and that's it, but not me.

I like to have everything function the way it's supposed to, but here we are, (shop sounds) Here we are back to the actual firing up the beast.

We've got all the timing kind of set here.

We're going to take a look at and see actually what it's at and hopefully it runs just fine.

On the first shot, On the first shot, you get the turnover, you start seeing the batteries... Bring some light into the monster Yeah.

Hey, get her going.

Since we got the battery in the back, we got to go through out the alternator here for the actual power signal for the timing light.

Pretty excited.

It's been a long time building this thing and we got to do it right.

So let's see how she sounds.

All right.

You see, we had the blades actually cracked on a little bit here because we have to set the timing for the blades as well as the throttle linkage to make sure it all works in conjunction.

These have to speed up.

These have to just go normally this way when the throttle turns on, these are actually opened a little bit.

So it gets maximum airflow.

So this way you don't bleed the whole thing out Or richen it up, one way or the other.

plan is Mark is going to keep an eye on the timing.

I'm just going to use the digital thermometer to make sure all the cylinder temperatures are all, you know, consistent and we'll just make sure everything's running good, no leaks, and then we'll get her out on the road, Ok hop in.

Yeah (engine softly runs) (engine revs loudly) Shut it off.

OK. Well, it runs well.

It's finally finished.

It's really running well.

And we have it all done.

As you can see, it's a big supercharged 454 and street legal.

Not bad We ran into some complications with it with the cooling system as well as some of the belts and a couple of silly little stupid things that always happen.

But as we go through a bunch of road tests with it, we kind of shake it down and get all the nuts and bolts and everything else to shake loose and just re tighten everything and get everything proper.

So this way it actually when the owner gets it, he should not have any problems.

I'm kind of happy to see it go, but I'm also kind of sad because kind of like the Michelin Man, you kind of hugging the tires and shedding a tear because you know your pride and joy of what you made.

And it's kind of fun and it's hopefully he can enjoy it and enjoy it the way I would enjoy it.

So I'm kind of stoked that he's going to hopefully be able to enjoy this the way I would, but I know he likes the car shows and all that stuff.

I don't know if he's going to take it on the Strip yet, but I might coach him into that.

Producer - What do you think of it?

Oh, I think it's awesome.

Even with the hood, and that and the blower sticking out of it, did an awesome job of this really, really good.

(car starts up loudly) That sounds good.

Wow.

Whoa, (car rumbles loudly) Wowee.

(car rumbles loudly) what do you think, Gavin?

Isn't that nice.

Better sound nice, eh Gary?

What a difference with the blower Oh, yeah.

Once that started in the shop and bang, Holy cow Pop the hood on it.

(chuckles) Remember, Gavin, I keep the keys.

I'm going to keep it in the vault.

There's something called the drill Pop the hood.

it's.

How do you like the paint on the hood?

Yeah, that looks really good.

So, matched straight up so this is all really nice here because you can see the reflections.

Oh yeah yeah.

Off all the stainless.

Yup.

Boy is it ever shiny inside Came out good Did you get that John?

even in the pit there.

That is awesome.

You see where we had to put all the extra breathers in to relieve some of the pressure on this thing?

Yeah, we've got to squeeze it, too.

And that relieved the pressure.

Yeah, it's good.

Yeah, it was crazy.

It was so much power when we get on and it was actually throwing the dipstick tube out of the.

Isn't that out of the tube?

So it was crazy, right?

But real happy with the way it came out.

It looks sharp.

It was worth the wait It was worth well the wait for sure.

I'm thinking it's good for maybe a best engine of one or two car shows (chuckles) Do's and don'ts, You don't want to get on it turning.

That's 100% for sure.

It's got gobs of power.

So we're going to slide everything made all these down the side, all the brackets for the fuel, the coil.

And those came out real nice in the fan.

It's well hidden inside this side now down in behind.

And that kept her down cool.

Oh yeah.

Between that and some other changes with the cap and the the thermostat, we got it down from 210 to 185.

So it's perfect.

There's nothing normal.

Yeah, that's where it should be.

You know, 185, 190 is fine for this.

You know, conserve what you got here.

Oh, yeah, right.

So you see up here, you know that?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

See all the they're all, all lined up and it's got a nice little Producer: So Harold, is this what you envisioned.

No, it's way beyond what I thought.

Oh, that's a lot better.

I just let Gary and the crew do their own imagination.

And what they did was everything was perfect.

I wasn't even thinking of anything like this speechless.

I don't know what to say.

Oh, that's great.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm really going to put my seat belt on.

(laughs) now.

Easy.

All you have to do, just like once go to fuel.

(engines starts up) (engines rumbles) (engines revs loudly (engines rumbles) (engines revs loudly) Well, I definitely won't be doing that.

(laughs) Well, it's got a lot of power lots.

Oh yeah.

Wowee.

(engine revs loudly) I think he blew a belt (laughs) What do you think?

Oh, well, I definitely won't be doing that.

(laughs) Well, it's got a lot of power lots.

Isn't that crazy?

Oh, yeah, wowee.

So what.

What you're thinking when you're looking for a thousand horsepower?

Well, no, not really.

(laughs) No.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

You won't be seeing me doing that though.

Too much traction.

No, I'm not.

I'm a little bit of a cruising kind of guy, (chuckles) but the power is there.

and the power is there for sure.

You'll be going to the drag strip.

No no.

You won't be seeing me at the drag strip.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well worth it.

it's a good job.

(chuckles) (car revs loudly) Funding for Radical Restoration is provided by (Music) Rakabot sources sustainable materials to create boot racks that organize footwear that allows drippings to go in the bowl.

Models designed for home, work or recreational settings are available on line at Rakabot dot com Joe's Hand Cleaner Manufactured by Clean Products supports Radical Restoration With our without water Joe's Hand Cleaner cleanses to ingredients that are food or cosmetic grade A family business since 1948.

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