Will The Ford 300 Inline Six Start After Sitting For 20 Years? - Engine Power S7, E14

i'm mike galley thanks for watching if you want to stay connected for more engine power just click the subscribe button below it's worn out rusty and barely makes any horsepower at all but it's one of the most fun engines we've ever worked on plus this challenger cranks out 1 000 horsepower and you can hear each and every one of them here's a contraption you probably have never seen before definitely not on engine power why on earth would we have it here we're definitely not going to spray anything down now it does have a unique power plant attached and that is the treasure we are after it's a ford csg 649 300 straight six but not what you would find in an old truck i've got a delivery yes and it came from a long ways away colorado colorado okay so allegedly this ran ran yes well you know how you know that's gone lately we've heard that a lot and had some uh had some problems but what i love about this industrial application and the nice thing about that is typically they have better parts in them because they because it's a stationary power unit they have to run for long periods of time they have upgraded parts as far as like the timing gears and the crankshaft and things like that and they run under partial load this is gasoline this one's not on gasoline this has some sort of crazy propane setup how about this mechanical governor yep yeah it's a pretty unique piece and what was the application what was this doing so the guy that we got it from said it was used as a sprayer let's get it running exactly the way it is okay you know and uh on here on here i say we try to light it yeah well it's hot where like it's a stolen car now you're talking a few flywheel bolts were loose that could be a good or bad sign she was on there cattywampus we also need to move some wires around to get battery power to the starter the spark plugs are coming out to get a little seafoam deep creep in the cylinders they have been dry from sitting so a little quality lube will help them out those plugs actually came out yeah they came out not too hard but that propane was burning dirty propane oh boy natural gas i hope we can keep that oh yeah look at that customization right there okay we're hooked up on the starter yeah everything good yeah bad start or bad solenoid uh well the store is cylinder it seems to be working so let's start us ride turns out the loose flywheel bolts were a bad sign this would be awfully hard to start it doesn't have a ring gear there's no ring gear on it all right i got the top we let it come down so okay all right pat i found this flywheel it's our small block ford neutral same uh same bolt pattern same bolt pattern but this thing is going to be way too small in diameter no way the starter will engage the ring gear oh my god there's two inches difference look at this we are not going to mess with that you know what we're gonna do we're gonna pull it i would rather have gotten it running on this stand because i think that would be extremely cool but we have the ultimate run stand the dyno all right draining the coolant was quite a surprise we couldn't believe how clean it was radiator hoses can be stubborn to get off they get stuck and a lot of times you're pulling and hitting elbows when they come loose here's a new little tool from matco that works really well it basically has a little flat spoon end on it that allows you to get in between the radiator hose and the inlet of the radiator or the water pump you just get it in move it around a little bit and breaks the radiator hose free this engine is within 150 pounds of a fully dressed aluminum headed big block chevy so we will put it in the heavyweight category with the industrial bell housing removed it's looking more like the 300 ford we are all familiar with this is what's important it turns over great free not too bad superflo gets the credit for making these engines so easy to hook up on their dyno cuts no matter the engine we dial indicate the dry flange to avoid any unwanted vibration from it being out of center up next no matter what your parents told you as a child ghouls do exist in fact we've got one in our shop plus the inline six hits the dyno here's today's tech tip that will help you with suspension setup an angle finder is a huge help when setting up your suspension things like pinion control arm and shock angles have to be right or your suspension won't be able to go through its full motion of travel this intercom angle finder measures 0 to 90 degrees in 500 degree increments the intercom angle finder has magnets on the base and the sides so you can set it in any position and it's compact enough to fit in tight spaces here's a car that was originally an april fool's joke involving the engineers at dodge then it became a reality thanks to the group of car builders at speedcore performance group it's called the srt ghoul it's a challenger based domestic supercar that has the most powerful crate engine ever produced right under this hood one thousand horsepower of elephant powers this beast let's take a closer look it's a 426 cubic inch aluminum blocked modern day hemi that produces 1 000 horsepower and 950 pound-feet of torque a 3-liter supercharger compresses 15 psi of boost to reach the power rating for weight reduction there are several pieces of carbon fiber like this hood speedcore manufactured for this build the reason we have it in the shop is to show you a brand new configurable exhaust system from magnaflow called the x-mod it's not just another exhaust kit this is an experience that lets you choose and decide what sound you want when you want it now that is sexy there's tip options in here they send uh an adapter to run the factory tips if you like that original look right right or these coming out of that square area but with the carbon fiber accents on the car already that sort of this kind of matches the car wild that is unbelievably nice people ask magnaflow to build a premium modular system with all the bells and whistles x-mod is their answer it's a modular design that lets you switch between the straight pipes and mufflers with no cutting everything you need to go from stealth mode to full bore race car or anything in between comes with the kit well pat i have to say the difference between the stock setup and this is night and day from aesthetics all the way to the pipe size yeah the quality looks a lot nicer uh the pipes are bigger and there's some options of what you can have it sound like okay so after we install the x-pipe what are we gonna do have that weakened warrior as loud as we can be or tone it down for that nice drive to work well i i don't think this should be toned down whatsoever so it's not much of a decision on my end i think we should put the straight pipes on it and it's a thousand horse engine i want to hear a thousand horse engine through straight pipes we'll have our fun with it and then we'll put the quieter ones on it'll be a little bit more manageable for people who don't appreciate the stuff that i do hey that's fair enough so let's talk a little bit more about this pipe here this is really the specialty of the kit it is you know and the the thing no matter what you have up here that drone that you'll have at partial throttle crews they did very a very very good job to eliminate that this right here see how it's got a closed end this is a resonance chamber it's a resonator that recreates that drone frequency what that is it's passive it will come out and it will actually collide with the one that's being generated by generating one of its own and it collides and it cancels out the drone noise so very very innovative and it really helps with something that makes a lot of power that you will normally just drive you nuts driving it yeah yeah it doesn't it's not going to have that um and one more thing i guess before we get started putting this stuff on um cars with mds that drop cylinders at cruz that's where a lot of that drone is introduced and this cancels it all out which is really cool [Music] magnaflow has gone the extra mile to manufacture their own high quality stainless steel active exhaust valves giving you even more sound control options [Music] now looks like it tucks up in there the resonator is the heart of the ndt or no drone technology system it uses quarter wave technology to cut the irritating frequencies in the 120 hertz range by 30 to 40 percent however the exhaust sound remains rich full and powerful but with no drone no restriction and no loss of power [Music] so that is definitely one rowdy vehicle that's pretty mean [Music] 847 horse 868 pound feet of torque on the first ripola that is awesome dude that sound i i actually almost had to close my ears and uh you know i got that pro stock top fuel hearing right yeah and i almost had to put my fingers and my ears on it sounds like a trans am car wide open down along straight away that's unbelievably awesome yeah the sound of the exhaust is what makes a vehicle right is you can have the baddest ass vehicle ever and if it's got some wimpy exhaust on it it's not going to do any justice this makes it sound like a car like a muscle car could you imagine though with this exhaust on the car going and doing some pulls on the interstate or something like that just the sound people would hear yeah i know it'd be spectacular illegal probably but spectacular yeah we want to be good citizens so we're replacing the straight pipes with the included magnaflow mufflers the straight through design controls the exhaust note for daily driving but keeps the iconic magnaflow sound we're installing them on the lift but you can do this anywhere using v-band clamps and an 11-millimeter wrench this car has a little bit of power listen to it oh i know there's no way in the pit of hades i would ever think a thousand horses would sound like this technology nowadays is so incredible that not only one you have something that's extremely manageable and something that is extremely refined but just has raw power what the ford 300 lacks in power it makes up with endurance [Music] we're continuing on with this 306 cylinder project and it's ready to head to the dyno room but first the monstrosity is taking up too much room so it's headed out there's a truck in my way what's your guess will it run will it smoke will it knock like an unwanted ghost we're all about to find out [Music] standard procedure is water hookup and in our case some improvised exhaust routing there are a couple of features about this engine that are unique because it is an industrial application one the carburetor is set up to run propane we're gonna run it on gasoline for obvious reasons so we're gonna switch that out also this engine actually has a mechanical governor on it because it was on a pump and it was probably a steady state engine it probably did not rev over three or thirty five hundred we are not going to want to utilize that so instead of taking all of this off and splitting the pump apart and all that good stuff for dynoing we're gonna take the linkage off here and remove the carburetor and replace it with a gas unit it's a simple one-barrel design from a stock late 70s ford pickup necessity is the mother of invention this throttle bracket is not pretty but it's perfectly functional [Music] all you horsepower junkies know the key to making big power is to have a cool dense air charge being introduced to the engine and keeping the intake manifold cool is a big part of that whole recipe so here's a little design that has always gotten a little bit under our skins and it was really the only way ford could do it the exhaust manifold is mounted directly under the intake manifold now we all know that heat rises so the only place it can go is up and saturate the intake manifold one thing you'll see a lot on performance builds on these 300s is the header and the intake manifold will both be wrapped with header wrap and that creates a thermal barrier between the two keeping the intake manifold a little cooler oh breaker points all right the condenser is still in it the points are well they look a little corroded i wonder if they can uh oh yep they're moving oh yeah oh yep that cam still works i'm gonna blow this thing out clear prop well nothing flew out of it no rattling noises so that means there's no debris in it funky this engine did not have an ignition coil so we grabbed an old school one on the shelf this system requires a ballast resistor to knock the voltage down to the points and condenser it's working oh my god it has 56 pounds of oil pressure that is the worst set of points i've ever seen work it runs it's running this engine has not run in probably 15 20 years by looks of all the stuff that was in it looking down the hole into the cylinder it looked like a frog pond in there it's horrible this thing is chugging away with 55 pounds of oil pressure an engine that sits this long the seals go bad they sit they'll leak oil as soon as you get them fired back up they'll spurt fluids from all different parts of the engine this one hasn't done any of that this is way more fun at this moment than running a thousand horse big block i know that sounds crazy but it is this is one of the highlights of my career at engine power i i i'm not kidding there's a reason why ls swaps are so popular it's a great engine and you can put one in just about any vehicle you can think of powertrain products has introduced their new stage 3 525 horsepower ls crate engine it's designed for any ls swap application features include new gm performance ls3 cylinder heads a custom ground camshaft viton valve seals and high tension valve springs the engine is designed for fuel-injected applications and tuning is required for proper drivability you can make your choice from three options stage one makes 400 horsepower stage 2 450 horsepower and this one the stage 3 puts out 525 horses no matter what one you choose they're all backed by a two year warranty visit shopengins.com to find out more up next this may be the quietest dyno session we've ever had it's not running it's not running but it's sitting there right it's like an electric motor all right there's a bunch of firsts on this one i'm very excited about it one this engine's idling at 450 rpm two the fans are way louder than the engine and i can't tell if it's running or not unless i'm looking at the pulleys and three i don't know if we have ever pulled one this low because this is not going to take any rpm so i think pat's more excited about this little six-banger than any big block pro stock engine he ever built i'm gonna make a pull from 1200 now you're talking to 3 000. that's what these things were made for super down low yeah yeah um it it is what it is here we go everything looks good nothing's spurting out anywhere let's load her up oh my gosh that dino break doesn't know what's going on [Music] that's a pull made a pull 224 pound feet of torque at at the hit yeah and 82 romp and stop and horsepower at 2900 now this thing was rated at 120. yeah the gas ones were like 120 and we have accessories on it we have the alternator the water pump the idler and that it has it has a government governor the cover is all hooked up but it's turning yes and it has a mechanism in there that's going to suck power out of it so let's make another little hit i'm going to roll into it a little bit different see what it does here [Laughter] sounds like it's clearing up a little there you go 86 horse yes oh my goodness 228 pound feet of torque that says a lot though man that torque is yeah no that's that's huge story of the engine this thing uh has enough torque to run a generator like these will run like not only on sprayers and agricultural pumps but these were on generators as well like this would be like in the generator of like a grocery store or something like that i'm gonna take it to 3600 because that that's what it's really talking about now it doesn't have any valve spring pressure so it might juice a little something a little choppy something a little funky but let's uh just just for scientific purposes well that's the range that the engine was set up for the engine was rated at 3 600 so i don't feel bad about taking it that high let's see if she's got anything left here 1100 rpm good oil pressure nice smooth pull so far there it goes hear it yep a little little longer coming at about 31.50 3200 little little choppy choppy 217 pound feet 88 horse so that's all she's got that's all she's got captain wrap her up uh no no i'm gonna shut the fans off but watch listen for the engine you you're not running it's not running but it's sitting there right it's like an electric motor all i can hear is the water pumps for the dyno oh oh my god that's that's spectacular now i want to start working on it i feel bad and this is kind of goofy i feel bad about cracking this one apart because it has lived its whole life it runs perfect and there's nothing wrong with it needs to be put in a glass case and then just says it break break open it in need of a generator or something like that but we are going to do it right you know we are going to do it right it's got a bunch of good parts we're going to put a bunch of nice parts on it um this will be the probably the most extreme before and after that we've done in a while it will all right done deal done deal look at that for more information on today's show check out our website powernationtv.com

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Keywords: Car, PowerNation, howto, how-to, diy, automotive, cars, trucks, automobile, do it yourself, automobiles, auto, engine build, horsepower, industrial sprayer, Ford 300 Inline Six, ford engine

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Length: 21min 41sec (1301 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 27 2020