A Conversation with Kenny Duttweiler | Talking Engines, Tuning, Turbos & More | RS Garage

This is a Podcast style conversation with Kenny Duttweiler. Kenny has been building engines since the 1970s. His shop Duttweiler performance builds the engines for The Speed Demon Racing Team. He shares some of his knowledge regarding engine building, turbochargers and tuning.

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[jffmillr]

Kenny’s whit is amazing for his age.

For guys like us - Jay you are what Kenny is to you. Kenny is certainly a legend but for guys like us your Knowledge is just as priceless

[joeinmi]

I love this new channel and paying homage to one of the pioneers of modern performance.

[Star-ll]

It's a honor to see the legendary KD Grand national Champ GNX 🏁🏁🏁🏁... 👏👏🫡😎... 3:41

[Mr]

I was lucky enough to have a lengthy conversation with Mr. Duttweiler about fifteen years ago about bearing clearance on boosted engines. This is a great video with two incredible engine designers. Thank you.

[gasparsperformance]

80 years old! That man doesn’t even look that old. I hope to be as energetic and youthful looking as that man when I’m his age.

[RustyWells]

I think this video set in motion many young men and maybe even a girl or two on the path of getting into the engine building world and I think it's great you guys are doing the lords work keep it up brothers!

[crazylarryjr]

Kenny Duttweiler, to me along with Buddy Ingersoll, are the founding fathers of modern Horsepower, yeah many stand tall today, but may not have without the guys willing to beak the American norms

[ArthurSperotto]

Thank you for blessing us with this, Jay! It's taken me well over an hour to watch this because of how many times I went back a few seconds, stopped, thought about things, reflected, etc.

[TheAnonymousone]

Kenny is a legend especially with the grand nationals that were super fast. Guy was turbo’ing for decades

[minibikemadman]

dudes been turbo motors forever...kenny is the man.

[roostingthe]

Around 2000 i had a 1900hp LS on the dyno and was just fuckin tearing shit up. A friend of a friend got me in touch with him and over the phone he told me what my problem was. I wasn't running a big enough distributor cap and it was ionizing the spark meaning the whole cap would spark lighting all the cylinders. Install larger distributors on the belt drive and now we could put some timing in them. Guy never met me, i never sent him any data out of ECU. Just answered his questions and he explained my problem. Bad mo fo!!

[beachesmountains]

I WISH SOMEBODY WOULD GO AROUND TO ALL THE OLD TIMERS WHO ARE TUNERS AND ENGINE BUILDERS, AND DO THIS WITH THEM !! INSTEAD OF ONE CONVERSATION WE NEED A SERIES OF TALKS WITH THIS MAN !!! HES SO FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM I THINK HE COULD DO AT LEAST 10 OF THESE 😂. I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS BUT I DEFINITELY WANT TO HEAR MORE FROM GENTLEMEN LIKE THIS !!! AND THE FACT THAT HES GOT DECADES OF EXPERIENCE WITH BOOSTED APPLICATIONS AND STUFF BESIDES OHV V8'S, MAKES HIM EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TO ME AND NEEDS TO BE HEARD !!! I LOVE MY BIG BLOCKS ETC BUT IM A GEAR HEAD SO I LOVE THE 3.8/4.3 STUFF AND IMPORTS TOO !! FROM BIG BLOCK DOMESTICS TO TURBO FLAT 4 SUBARUS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, HELL EVEN 13B WANKELS !!!!

[corystansbury]

Truly can acknowledge my fellow men (and women) of culture when watching Jay interviewing Kenny. What a treat!

The comments about turbo technology rang true for me. Used to be that 1.5:1 EBR was about as good as you could do on a turbo engine with good street response. Now you might just tickle over 1 on a snappy setup.

[racingdatasystems]

Met KD 25yrs ago while working on a SBC project!! Guy hasn’t changed one bit 😂😂😂

[jdcustomz]

29:42 #Lifers, nailed it. What is retirement when you love what you do?

[jadielmaistry]

It’s cool to see Jay look to someone the way we look at him.

[russellalford]

Good to Kenny still getting it done, I lived in Oxnard when he was in Saticoy, I used to take my Distributor for my 440 69 Superbee in 76

[TurbineResearch]

Great questions and insights from an automotive legend ❤ thanks

[mdfrtech]

1 of the greatest legends Kenny was my childhood hero on the TURBO GN world! 🇺🇸💪🏻

[learysinsight]

I would love to hear a SERIOUS breakdown from you on Backpressure. We all know how it robs power but not everyone understands the fringe effects. ie- temps, detonation, stall, %of HP lost or gained, etc. Or the COMPOUND effects.