4,500 HP John Deere Pro Stock Engine

growing up in the 60s surrounded by hot rod culture and drag racing phil shock was immediately drawn in his newfound hobby led him to becoming a cleanup boy at a local shop and before long he worked his way up the ranks in fact this summer will mark his 50th year working in this industry starting at the bottom and having worked his way up today phil is the owner of riverside engines in tiffin ohio a competition diesel engine and machine shop that he purchased about 20 years ago that has the capability to do all its own engine work and even some parts manufacturing in-house when it comes to the shop's competition diesel engine builds riverside engines stays diverse building diesel engines capable of 500 to 600 horsepower all the way up to 4 500 plus horsepower from john deere's to internationals to alice chalmers ford's and more riverside knows how to deliver diesel performance one such engine that riverside specializes in is a 680 cubic inch john deere pro stock engine and we'll give you all the details in this episode of diesel of the week this video is brought to you by amsoil the first in synthetics visit amsoil.com for more information hey everyone i'm greg jones for engine builder and today we're talking about a pro stock john deere engine built by riverside engines according to phil these builds start out with a stock john deere block that can be as big as 680 cubic inches as well as riverside's own billet rods and billet crank here's phil himself to tell you a little more the only stock part in the engine is the block we we completely redo the block uh as far as the main cap area we put four bolt main caps on them machine them out put four bolt caps on they have a steel girdle on them they're completely tied together to keep from breaking the block in addition to the main cap enhancement riverside also wet sleeves to john deere to help handle the added horsepower the shop also builds the billet cylinder head all the manifolding and the entire valve train in-house the oiling system is a three-stage external oil pump that utilizes a riverside fabricated oil pan and most of these 680 cubic inch john deere pro stock engines feature a weimer turbo pro stock field of things that the most popular turbo is a weimer i have a limit on it as far as the exhaust side of being six inch but uh they're huge it's kind of a split thing uh between ntpa and the ppl of where they hook no matter where these customers are running riverside engines 680 cubic inch john deere pro stock engine can realistically crank out 4 500 horsepower and a ton of torque it's some seriously impressive stuff well that does it for this episode of diesel of the week shout out to our series sponsor amsoil don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel and if you have an engine you'd like to see featured please email me at g jones babcocks.com until next time thanks for watching

Channel: Engine Builder

Views: 49,177

Keywords: diesel, tractor, john deere, pro stock, tractor pulling, horsepower, performance, riverside engines, Pro Pulling League, NTPA, engines, diesel engine, engine build, engine builder, engine building, amsoil

Id: r1Sky1wSy8Y

Length: 3min 21sec (201 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021