I was almost expecting this to end with "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy"... Great content, and I enjoyed the longer format.

This is probably one of my new favorite car channels ever since motor trend stopped putting quality content on youtube

I always come back to these early episodes of VGG, because I like when Derek builds engines on the cheap. I admire whats he's done with the channel since then, but these were my faves.

i don't care what some guys say first engine i built had a friend that was a mechanical engineer. we built 307 using flat top pistons .bored 30 over ran a .480 lift cam. i cant really remember the heads we used wanting to say they were off 400 small block. we manually weighed each piston and rod we filed every rod down to match the weight of the lightest one we had. .this was 40 years ago. i remember turning 8000 rpm just couple times because the engine wasn't completely balanced you don't want to do that to many times. installed in a 73 nova 4 speed manual trans. i never raced it on drag strip strictly street racing was never beaten in that car i raced a couple chevelle ss big blocks and a guy that drag raced on the track a lot never was able to out run the nova .guys in chevelle ss big block cars there problem was spinning. my car would not or i would not let spin. i raced a guy twice in his chevelle ss first race he started in first gear and just smoked his tires he had a posi rear end second race he started in second gear lot closer i still beat him by car length and half.. my good friend i mentioned earlier he got a light body mustang installed a built 350 sb. i out ran it with nova is such a light car it was 500lbs lighter than the z28 Camaro i had. miss the late 70s and 80s when people were people that had common since best times ever

Somebody really well known in performance world told me something I never forgot. A engine doesn't know what brand it is, what size it it, what color it is, if it has a power adder or not, what it is SUPPOSED to do, or what kind of vehicle it's in. It says at this instant I got these parts, I see this fuel, and I ingest this atmosphere, so I can do this xxxx. That person was the founder of Kinsler Fuel injection 1984. Build what you got, f the noise, and rock out with your BLOCK out.

Funny how I find myself saying "I don't knowwww" or "great" while working in my junk now.

Hey 290 and 328 isnt bad at all for an old 307 with an okay cam in it! Good job yet again Derek! Just going through watching old videos while i wait for new ones, i love that over the years youve stayed true to your roots, and still teach us everything along the way, and alot of that info hasnt changed much, including keeping things on a realistic budget that alot of us can afford, excluding me 😂. Thank you Derek

Love this show. I've learned so much from watching it. The old school talent you just don't find today at your local shop. I bet there isn't a buried car anywhere this guy can't get running.

“It’s just f’ing hanging in there” lol that guy was impressed.

you turned a boat anchor into a tire smoker! It was worth it!

Derek is a mechanical genius. And entertaining too. I can only do maintenance on my lawnmower, so I find this channel very interesting.

307 is a much better engine than a 305 I love to pick up a cheap 307 and slam the crank into a 350 to make a 327 the most valuable part of a 307 is that 327 crankshaft

The 307, my first love. I would "borrow" my Uncle Jack's 69 Malibu in my pre-driver's license days when everyone was out of town. I turned the closet upside down looking for a spare key.

Almost 1hp per cubic inch with factree stuff. You sir are not dipped. Good job 👍💪🏻

This channel I’ve been watching for about a month and it’s very fast becoming my favorite his goofy antics and just how smart he is when it comes to engines makes it super simple to learn from him and I’m a learn by doing kinda guy

I'm impressed by that power level from a 307. Imagine 325HP is easy at 6000-6200rpm if the valvetrain supported that engine speed. Nice work.

Great job and thanks for proving what an old 307 is actually capable of.

You got a great outcome. no leaks, no failure and 290hp is excellent.

Derrick, this video was awesome and it hit home with me. My dad medically retired from Winter's Foundry here in Canton Ohio in 1989! I remember they produced parts for the Cosworth Vega. Awesome memory, thank you!

I can’t get enough of this guy! He crakes me up!

Pretty good for a 307 with those stock parts! Good job!

Love this guy! He’s the Everyman. No high dollar parts most of us can’t afford. The jokes and comments keep me rolling:)

My Dad bought a leftover '73 El Camino in '74 and he couldn't believe the DEAL he got. Then, he realized he had a 307 with 3 in the tree and vinyl bench seats! FANCY! I always wanted to do a 307 build, especially coz it's got 2 more cubes than a 305! LoL

I had a 307 . I bought a 73 LT . Kid said it had a 350 . It didn't drive like a 350 . Ran the numbers . Its a 307 . So i put a 327 intake on it so i could run a q jet on it . I killed alot a cars with that 307 . Car had a 3:08 posi rear end . It would snap both rear tires up in smoke when i dumped that spredbore ! Raced one guy . A buddy at the time . He had a 30 over 390 . Melling cam . Headers n a holley . We raced . I was behind him a car length . Single lane . Hangin a left . We nailed it . He jumped ahead a car length . As soon as we got around the corner . Turnin left . I jumped in the merging lane and dumped that spreadbore . Shot on by him and put 2, 3 car lengths between us . He couldn't catch back up ! Which is why im a spread bore guy ! That 307 killed alot cars ! I finally floated a valve one day . 5300 rpm . It went down hill from ther ! Good Times 😎

"Cold Snack" - I need to incorporate this term into my daily conversations.

Way back when I was a kid, I needed a motor to drop in my ‘68 Camaro to get to work. I was in to street racing, and the car was broken more often than not... A friend offered me a 307 out of a wrecked Chevelle. The engine had been overhauled by the uncle of another friend, who told me I might find it interesting. I pulled it out of the Chevelle and dropped it in the Camaro one weekend, with new plugs, wires, etc. Around noon on Monday, I took it for a test drive. Holy crap, that sucker ran damn good! The builder never would tell what he did to it, but it blew off a built 72 Z28 that had been the quickest street car in our small town. Of course this was long before the internet, and 1000 horse supercharger kits and computerized engine controls...

I've watched this video a few times already, just like going back & watching your videos over sometimes. There's a reason why small block Chevy was the go to engine of choice for most people back in the day. 283 & 307 were pretty much the same block, like 305 & 350 are pretty much the same block. It didn't matter, you could bolt most every accessory to it, from whatever engine size you had.

Hey, I liked my 307 in my 71 Chevelle with Powerglide added stall speed/ B&M trans pack. I just added 4 bbl manifold and carburetor and added headers sounded great!!! This was my second car after High School..then I went bigger 24 cars later…my brother cammed up his 307 in his 72 Nova…. Early eighties best time of my life!!!

"Did you put a good valve spring on her?" "NOPE!"

Best Hone Alone movie ever :)

The ‘Red Green’ show lives on for another generation . People that know will understand .

Back in the day my Impala had a 307, never let me down. I could never do this but I really enjoy watching the whole process.

"Chrome won't get you home" ...Puts chrome valve covers on it.

If I had this man as a teacher in school I would have graduated make learning fun

Love the "Don't Tread on Me" and the "Come and Take It" flags hanging up in the background!

Pro Pauly was my uncle name he was going build me a 350 never got too he passed away when my nova was at his shop ole girl still setting you remind me of him a lot thanks for video

Inspired me to work on a 69 442! Got it running and driving with a ton of help

Many years ago I built a 307 for a friend of mine. For some reason the engine came with a forged steel crank from the factory. The engine came from a Malibu taxi cab. I had the engine hot tanked and had new cam bearings pressed in along with new freeze plugs. I honed the cylinders and got new forged pistons for it. The rods were magnafluxed and shot peened 350 HP rods. A set of new Z28 rod bolts finished the assembly. I farmed out re balancing the rotating assembly. The heads I used were “double hump” heads that had 1.94 intake and 1.50 exhaust valves. A complete rebuild was done along with new Z28 springs, valve stem seals multi angle valve seats. The cam was the 151 327/350 hp hydraulic lifter cam lifters and pushrods. For the oil pump I used a Z28 high volume pump. I matched the oil pump cavity to the rear main cap and before bolting it down I polished the inner surface and did a smooth radius into the cavity. I packed the oil pump with petroleum jelly for instant suction. The intake was a stock Chevrolet aluminum high rise dual plane 1970 Z28 intake with the ports opened up to match the intake gaskets as were the heads. The head gaskets were copper. We dropped it into a 69 Camaro that had 307 emblems on it. It was a 4-speed car. The carburetor used was a Holley 600 cfm vacuum secondary unit. After a 1,500 mile gentle break-in. We changed the break-in 30 weight oil for 10W-30 Kendall GT-1 racing oil and a magnetic drain plug. The car was dyno’d and got 312hp at the rear wheels! Not bad for stock Chevy parts. With 4.11 positraction 12 bolt rear. It’d run 13.5’s at 102 average.

I LOVE THE 307!!! Last one I did pulled through 8000RPM, 327 forged crank, 020 over forged eyebrowed flattops, 292 intake w/480 lift (327/375hp cam),, dual roller chain, Rhoads lifters, high volume pump, Power Pack heads (small chamber, small valve 1.9/1.7, large port), marine 327 manifold with the center cut out and notched, a 1" spacer, Holly 600 converted to manual secondaries, one size smaller jets and 30%ish destroked power valve, 1.7 rockers, custom by me rebuild and curved distributor. below 2300 ran like a nice 307, at 2300 intake air speed hits the sweet spot and whistles in the intake. Twists the chassis torque change all the way through 7800RPM. When kept my foot out at 55MPH (74Nova, Police TH350 and 2:73 rear) got 22mph. Once into the torque band I have no idea... To busy keeping it pointed straight. Loved it.

FYI, you don’t need to use umbrella seals on the exh valves cause it can’t pull vacuum through the exhaust valves. I have done literally 500 to 1000 sets of sbc heads and bbc heads and never used anything on the sbc except the o rings on the exh’s and on the bbc’s, yes we used either the push on seals or the the umbrellas and sometimes only the o-rings all around. It’s a preference. Love your channel Derek, don’t ever change what you do.

Nice budget shade tree build. Would be a nice engine in a Daily or mini truck, third gen. 290 hp is nothing to be sneezed at in a small, cheap and probably reliable engine. Thanks I appreciate the build.

I was NOT expecting it to dyno like that, GREAT JOB!!

Just found you recently, love the rebuild on the this 307, makes me have hope for mine. You make the video's so much fun to watch. I would love to see you do a rebuild/restore on an 87 Cutlass Supreme, shouldn't be hard to find as there's plenty around. Keep me in stitches, lol. All the best.

Cool rebuild! I like the "saving money" aspect of the build and that you took the 307 and didn't do anything radical to it. And 290 hp is very respectable! When I was much younger, I remember those 283's and 307's. Not very well liked motors, but they were work horses. I remember that everyone wanted a 302 or a 350 including myself! Years later, I had a 1980 Camaro that came with a 305 4bbl Rochester. It wouldn't rev, so my buddies and I decided to "build" it ... if course the wrong way. The block looked good, so we just threw in a way too big cam, a double row roller timing chain, bigger heads (I think 1.92 intake, but I could be wrong) with factory springs, keepers and no valve work, headers, no cat, dual exhaust with no name turbo mufflers (still not sure what they are, but they sounded good), Edelbrock Performer intake and Holley 650 (definitely too much carb). It had a highway rear end, I think it was a 2.41, which we swapped out for a 3.31 posi. And of course the chrome valve covers, timing chain cover, alternator bracket and the blue anodized Edelbrock air cleaner! There were a few times, I ran her to 6,000 rpm (just touched it) and she held. The motor made such good noise above 5,000 rpm! The cam had way too much lift and duration, so she loped at idle and loved high rpms. I think she was still making power at 6,000 rpm, but I didn't want to blow up the motor. The "rebuild" lasted about 25K miles - she still ran well, but the performance had drifted away - maybe compression? On a very hot day, I overheated her (bad radiator - I knew it, but I didn't want to buy a new radiator, so I kept running her too long). I broke something - she still ran, but one exhaust pipe blew slightly white puffy exhaust. I was so upset, that I didn't do a tear down and wound up selling her. Maybe it was only a bad head gasket? No leaking coolant outside the motor and only a slight oil leak. That was the last "performance" V8 I owned (the 1984 Pontiac Firebird with a 305 4bbl was not in the same league). Now it's higher performance 4's! Thanks for making this video. Brings back some great memories!

Dam! Thought I was watching the Red Green show! Lol

I ran a 307 in a derby car. Wow that sob runs amazing.

What great show you do. Thank for the videos you all are producing. My all time new favorite to watch when able since previous old favorite show this old house and new yankee work from late 1980s. Dan Buchignani

Now this is a channel I can really get behind great everyday working man kinda content

Good job on this, man! That's a mighty little 307 for that budget! proof that something decent can be done out of these. Sound was fine during the rain by the way.

Great heads,great intake, this is by far my favorite build I've seen.

use the oil pan to catch the coolant when you flip the engine on the stand.

Holy next door neighbor!! Three years… this is truly burning my eyes on the visual changes observed. I’ve been watching your videos for a little bit now, but somehow never noticed what I’m noticing now, in comparison to the corvette vajeo i watched this morning. Well I’ll be!! Cheers and keep we coming - always a delight and pleasure & hope I didn’t harm any mentals with my amazement.

For non-fuel injected and for a motor that gets no love I am glad you went through the effort sir. Seeing the potential of any motor is always of interest Keeps it from getting boring 👍🏻

pulls one valve cover off "oh no" lol

Ihad a 307 in my 72 Cmaro. Drove it cross-country from Chicago to San Fransisco in late 1980. Topped out at 117 MPH in the Western states. While I had it replaced the fuel pump and radiator (it had over 117,000 on it when I bought it. The thing was a tank.

“Nope”! Stock with unknown miles! 😂😂 freakin awesome.

" Its peeing harder than a Racehorse on a flat Dock " .the lines are great and the Guy takes the fear out of Engine building.

It is great to see someone build a engine that unfairly gets no love. actually most if not all engines have potential if built right. a 307 is basically a stroked 283 and in the late 50's and early 60's they built some great 283s, even boring them a 1/8" over and creating the 301. Chevy later built the 302 with a 327 block and a 283 crank and installed it in the Z28.

Looks like that engine was cared for by Quakerstate oil! 🤣😂

I can’t get enough of your humor thank you for your time.

Lmao!....I flippin love this guy!...I'll take him over Skotty KILMER anyday!...

Excellent example of what a feller can do on a budget. With proof even!! You dang near squeaked 300 out of 'er. Gotta say I was ducking when you were giving her the business tho. Good on ya!

The sound at 5500 is absolutely wonderful.

Ty Derek!!! These bring back all the awesome memories of growing up watching and learning to turn wrenches. These videos make me smile 😊!!

“These heads have precisely between 1 and 319,000 miles.” Lmao

I go old school with the quarter inch bead of RTV. Seals better than any end gaskets I have ever tried.

“That there intake’ll make her run like OJ Simpson.” 😂😂😂

This was SO flippin cool! This is the absolute BEST channel on the old tube. A guy really loves it!

This was by far the best thing I’ve seen in a while

The best Engine build video ever!

"Moses's sandals! those are deep" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I watched some of the 350 build. Laughed out loud when you said you keep gas around because you like the smell! Thank you Daniel

Keep on wrenching on pure garbage I love it! Living vicariously through you sir😁

I love those little motors. Little V8s an in line 6s are just cool

Derrick; My company Dr. told me back in the seventies that gasoline and solvents go right thru ones skin and into the blood supply which carries to all the rest of the body. He said always wear appropriate gloves.

Love ya folks. Had 72 with 307. Smoked horrible cleaned out return (oil) under valve cover with coat hanger changed oil. Stopped smoke.went from me to brother.to his friend. Sold to don't know who after!

Hey great video! My chevelle had a 307 when I bought it. I still have it in the barn as a large paper weight.

Low overlap cam and wide ring gap. Nagasaki spinny thing coming soon

I really loved this video. My guess was 250hp and you went well beyond that! Great job, man. Very cool. I had a 307 in a malibu chevelle of my own and I just sort of figured it didn't deserve a big tune up... and now I think I should have before I sold it. Oh well next time!

Buddy had a '69 Camaro with the 307/Powerslide combo, always told the gas station attendants to fill the oil and check the gas

"Moses Sandals those are deep" Hahahahahaha

This guy is wicked smaht with engines. I LOVE this channel!!.

Had to re-watch this episode as I'm about to reassemble my 283 after a trip to the machine shop. 040" bore so new pistons & rings. Nothing else special, stock rebuild. Swapped into a 77 Vega over 30 years ago but never finished that project. Now it's on.

I had a 1981 Delta 88 with a 307. That was the best engine I've ever had. It was reliable and had plenty of power. I used to do dry pavement donuts in it. Lol It was alot of fun. I really miss that car. I gave the engine to a buddy and he put it in his fire bird that was set up for a V6. After he put it in he could bark 2nd and 3rd gear and it was an automatic.🤣

"They run like OJ Simpson." Ha!

I watched my dad use a 307 as a counter balance on a home made engine puller back in 95. Probably the best use I've seen out of one

Great video! Love the build on a budget aspect! All your videos are fun to watch keep it up! Thanks!

Cool to watch the old videos and see where he came from and now he’s a millionaire and is still cranking out amazing videos. Love this guy

Cork ends..No issues...Glue 'em to the block first about an hour ahead of time...A little RTV in the corners and all is hunky dory...She's a stout little bugger.

I like the flag on the back wall

We used to call them "Smog Heads", but that was light years ago:) Great build, looking forward to see how she turns out.

I LOVE THIS SHOW, EACH ONE IS AS GOOD AS THE OTHER AND BETTER! GOD BLESS AND KEEP THE GOOD SHOWS COMING! THANKS A LOT!

Run like OJ Simpson. Just love it. This build video reminds me of spending my three day weekend rebuilding any small block Chevy back in the day.

My first car was a 1968 camaro with a 307. I could careless about the HP, it was freedom to go where I wanted when I wanted.

Love the fellow.. talkin like him... taught me to be low budget on everything. no cam bearings needed.... never would have thunk of that.

Been running my rebuilt 307 in my 68 impala convertible for 20 years. Reliable, good looking little engine. When you add a few go fast parts to it and a 2.5 inch dual exhaust its fun!

Come for the jokes! Stay for the info!! Love this channel!

That was cool.You really drew out some power in that little 307.I got a 305 HO in a 84 T/A.

OUTSTANDING CHANNEL. This is the best review from teardown, cleanup, buy parts info, assemble and dyno all in 30 minutes. PERFECT.

Ah! A man after my own heart. I love the small cube engines and they can be made to run good for their size. I put together 2 of these engines, one for a 72 Nova (Free engine) and one out of my 70 Chevelle. The Chevelle had a 200R overdrive with a 3.23 GTO diff. It was a blast to drive, 2200 rpm @70MPH and it would upshift @ 90 MPH under full throttle.