Everything It Takes To Machine a 1968 Chrysler 440 V-8 Engine

We're back working on Snowball's 1970's-era dirt track racer by taking our 440 V-8 Chrysler engine to the machine shop. Jon at Apex Competition Engines has taken on the task of walking through the process and getting everything ready for us. Hopefully this vintage race car is back on the track sooner rather than later!

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
01:04 - Starting with the heads
1:35 - Step One: Fresh Guide-Liners
4:05 - Checking Oil Clearance on Guides
5:19 - Step Two: Decking the Heads
8:34 - Step Three: Fresh Valve Seats
13:24 - On to the Block
13:48 - Pulling Dowel Pins
15:25 - There are no Problems, only Solutions
17:20 - Step Four? Balancing the Rotating Assembly
20:50 - Checking the Harmonic Balancer and Flywheel
22:27 - Surfacing the Block
23:05 - Boring and Honing the Block
25:15 - Outro

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[renc]

This, in my opinion, is some of Hagerty's BEST content. Super happy to see Redline Rebuilds again !!😃

[JM-qrkt]

So good to see a young person so talented and taking great care and pride in their work. Good job Jon!

[lozl]

The satisfaction from watching old parts become better than new it endless. It's so watchable! I love it.

[busterulmer]

Really enjoyed every second of this video. Great to see Davin back in front of the camera. The engine guy was very clear on the what, where and why of each step.

[davebutler]

Great to see young guys doing this type of work.

[MrSloika]

You're so lucky to have found a young guy who knows his stuff. Around where I live the old timers have retired, or died, and no has replaced them.

[RuralRoute]

...SO nice to see a young man good at his job and proud of his work!!! Jon at Apex: you rock!

[ametti]

Huge amount of skilled work there. Not to be underestimated

[ericbessett]

This is by far my favorite Hagerty's series. So glad to see it back!

[nsbhagwat]

Thank you Hagerty for this Redline Rebuild episode. Such a wealth of knowledge with Davin, Jon and all involved in this series.

[MrBblhed]

Glad to see you back in the shop getting your work done.

[jimdrechsel]

As someone who spent most of my life as a machinist and building my own engines I really enjoyed seeing the types of machines and setups. I recently used two very experienced machine shops to build two engines. Both had years experience but not much with Chrysler engines and when I picked up the cylinder heads they had no clue as to how or why they should get the valve stems the same height. They both said there was no specifications for valve stem height and left them uneven. Seeing how that was achieved made me feel like I knew more than the builder producing Chevy and Ford race engines professionally. The only thing I didn’t see was align boring the mains. Great video and I’d love to see more when performing extra tricks for oil return, pumps and whatever! This will be a lost skill very soon it seems….

[JustMike]

It's so nice seeing a pro do their thing. When one has the correct tools, one can literally move mountains.

[stooartbabay]

So happy you are working on this car again!!!

[slade]

This was the best episode of Redline Rebuilds in awhile! Seems like a great machine shop.

[canusakommando]

The nut pull was poetry in motion. Great job on an iconic muscle car champ. Thanks very much.

[astaluegmisterios]

fantastic, Davin.
you' re the best👍🏻👍🏻

[lowreedman]

A thing of beauty.

Glad to see Davin back at it.

[johnnyk]

This man is a national treasure please continue these forever until I die at a ripe old age

[williamboehm]

I really enjoy this channel. It shows the reality of how much work goes into these projects, and the level of expertise and attention to detail required. No neck tattoos, silly diallogue, gratuitous chrome.