Rebob5

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Today A guy brought this to the engine shop that is in the same building as the race shop that I work at and I had to get some pictures of this thing. I guess it goes in a pulling tractor, its 650 cubic inches and is methanol and water fed and is running 100 pounds of boost through 4 turbos. The owner estimates it at about 4,000 horsepower. The connecting rods and pistons are insane on this thing and the crank is just as wild, It has huge pieces of tungston off each counterweight to balance it. the block alone was 20 grand, and he just got a estimate for 2 custom billet crankshafts and was quoted $18,000 a piece. Its insane the amount of money in this thing!! Ive never seen anything like this before and thought it was awesome. I guess he has had a problem keeping it together and brought it to us to try and get it figured out. Enjoy!!

That_One_Person

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That... is gorgeous

josh414

that's pretty sick not very often you get to see a piece like that

ZONES89RS

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Damn.....

cambirdracing

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650 C.I., 100 lbs boost, pulling 20k+ lbs, yea I can see having a hard time keeping it together. I think he needs to spend more money on it, LOL.

96 Comp T/A

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That's got to be some kind of Hemi headed something, judging by where the pushrod tubes come through. probably compression ignition too. Awesome!!!

CNC BLOCKS N/E

Nice looking block who machined the block?

Rebob5

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Im not sure who did the actual machine work on the block, I can only imagine the size of billet that this thing started out as. The other blocks in the pictures are dart BBC blocks and it make them look tiny when its next to them. Its still sitting on the cart, Im not sure when they are going to put it up on the Rottler cnc and start doing work but im sure it will be soon.

TFS355S10

$38,000 for a block and a crank?? Wow Obviously the guy that owns that needs to adopt me! lol

Nice looking block of aluminum though. What are they gonna do to it?

Rebob5

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I stand corrected the new crank came in the other day and it was only $8,000. He did order 2 identical ones just in case something happened haha. I guess the new crank has much bigger main journals so the block needs to be opened up and they are also going to put a thrust bearing in the block and from what i have seen its a challenge because as hard as it is to believe there wasn't enough material on the block so they had to add a couple thick pieces to the black of the block to make room the the thrust and seal.

slogo

I know its an old post, sorry,
I see what i think is lifter bores, close to the roller cam bearings, but how would you access them? Or is this something that does not use lifters? I know, I'm a dumbass...

Rebob5

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The block now has windows in it to be able to remove the lifters without having to pull the heads off the motor. Ill try and get a picture of the head next, Its as impressive as the rest of the block... I bet the assembled aluminum head weights 75 pounds or more

slogo

Ok, so the 4 holes at the top of the deck and about an inch lower and those lower 4 holes are joined together, are the lifter and pushrod holes. Id like to touch that block....

slowbu

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that's cool
looks like an perkins v8 diesel motor
but in billet
most of the pullers convert them to run alcohol
its alot safer then diesel