Every time Steve said “Big Black Hemi” I was hearing it sung to the tune of “Black Betty” by Ram Jam.

Cleet is going to fly with engine😂😂🎉🎉

How he sprayed a little starter fluid into the throttle body and walked away was like damn. Steve morris is a legend.

*_If your a real "car guy" let alone motor enthusiast, this is the dopest channel on the KZfaq!_* _Truly amazing content from Steve Morris Engines!_

Name it E Normas.

I feel an oven in Steve's future, bake blocks and aneal that damn gasket in another 30 years.

Did anyone else see the Intake explosion.....Look at the throttle body at 19:00-19:04. Pretty big fire ball in the intake

1320hp NA, 2250 @ 25lbs with conservative timing. I hope when it's ready to see the boat run. Great content, keep it coming. No false advertising here, I learn something from every video. Thanks Steve, Kyle and the rest of the team!

Like they say, there is no replacement for Displacement. That thing is a Monster! Can't wait to see what it does Supercharged.

C'mon Steve, leave some CFM for the rest of us. That is awesomeness

1,110 NA, 1,960 @ 25 LBS, Pump Gas Definitely the Limiting Factor, Great video Again Steve🏁🤙🏼

Your video editing has become so good, the channel is as entertaining to watch as Cleetus now

NA Horsepower -- 1,645 25 lb boost - 3,362

I used to work for a company that made airplane deicer trucks and some of the models had this system that used a hydraulically power ATI Procharger that looked about that size, but maybe larger, that pushed air down a nozzle to blow the ice off of planes. I was told that the blast of air could blow your feet right out from under you. They were really impressive. They had a cart with an engine at the other side of the shop, where they would break the Prochargers in before installing them in the cab on the boom. When they ran them in, it sounded like a jet engine running.

What a gem! Love that engine! NA 1011hp, 1788hp with 25lbs boost.

Beautiful work of art. I'm not into racing or engine building but I always walk away learning something from your videos and for that I am very grateful. Thank you. I came across your channel from that monster Haas machine that was damaged and here I am watching all of your videos :)

Steve needs a auto clave of some sort, he could aneal those gaskets and heat his blocks up to retorque

Its soo cool to see Joe working on this. He did my coyote heads in 2019 and they are still gamgster 5 years later 💪✌️

I had no idea that copper needed to be annealing. I been in manufacturing for over 40 years. I just learned something. Thank you Steve!!

Love the video and just the knowledge bomb that is always dropped. To the basic mechanic to an engine builder you always have a great piece of advice to add. Keep up the great work!!!

I’d call it angus.

I used to run water from my hot water heater into the engines to heat them up on the stand. Very cool looking project.

You the man amazing build!

Great video Steve & company!!! NA = 1035HP, Boosted = 2200HP

call it Mandingo...

Copper anneals the opposite of steel. To anneal the bad head gasket, heat it up and rapidly cool it.

That's a massive motor 😮 liking the content brother!

This is so cool. Your videos are so fun to watch.

I wish I could rent a room there just to be able to watch these guys. I so much miss building race engines.

I need this motor in my 15’ whaler

I have been waiting for the "Big Black Hemi" start up! Great video, great work all of you guys.

That hemi looks so amazing.

Steve when my boat was built back in the day . She was sporting a Keith Black hemi with a Littlefield blower on top. 😮

Annealing is a must. Every time you handle it, the copper is hardening, so we used to anneal copper gaskets immediately prior to installation. 😊 oven gloves to put it on the studs, immediately prior!

This is a fun engine build! So unique.

1440 N/A, 2852 @25# Put my rifle cartridges through an annealing after each firing. Keeps the neck tension consistent.

Call it "The Green 1/4 Mile" from the 1999 movie. Big black guy and also is the boat doing 1/4 mile runs.

Cleetus needs this for eagle 😂

1230/2870 hp I learn something every time I watch your channel! Thanks Steve and crew.

I remember seeing this in the shop in person, it's wild! and the boat it goes in is wild!

GM made a 637 cubic inch big block and had 5 and 1/8 inch bore Shoot for the moon Steve

I'd want one in a Pantera

Proudly powering a cruise liner near you. 🤘

in diesels they cut the gasket back for the fire ring to seal the combustion chamber, or use a single "o-ring" in the head on top of the mls sealing surface.

I would call that thing "Black Betty"

Cool Vid on the Big Black Hemi..! But, I Can Not Believe For as Long as You Have Been Building Engines You Never Anealed Copper Head Gaskets with an OnA Torch... 😮😮😮😮

Have you thought of using a thermolator used in injection molding machines for heating the engines? They heat/cool water and circulate it through molds, one might be worth looking into for engines, could double as a leak down test for gaskets as well.

"Norman." Why I genuinely love Steve Morris..

What an engine and very pretty as well. 1200 and 2450 hp on boost. Thanks.

That is one massive masterpiece

That Bbc with Sonny's hemi heads is bad azz... I have been wanting a Sonny's Bbc Brodix block with Sonny's aluminum water hemi heads and a f4-136 procharger in my 88 Monte SS that's a street driven drag car.

Little slip up toward the end saying it will be running on gas down the street from Bradenton. Congrats Cleetus/Eagle. This will be a BEAST!

Awesome looking engine

The thing about copper. When it’s worked or bent or rolled etc. it naturally hardens. So a thick slab of copper rolled to a few MM will be harder than a thinner slab rolled into the same thickness. That’s why copper pipes, wire are made in the foundry.

Steve and Kyle, y'all rock! That's one big black hemi. It's a monster. Peace

I like your timing light ❤

Cleets new motor looks dope

Thanks for the video

Steve needs a little oven like used for powder coating that he can just wheel the block and stand into to bring it up and soak it at operating temp without having to think about it.

Great video! Thanks Steve. 1650hp na 3420hp on boost

That procharger is massive 😮

1180 N/A, 2330 @ 25 pounds. What a beast of an engine!

Being a big time Hemi fan. I love this black hemi. Steve every time you say black him I keep hearing the song black Betty.

Them weights gona fly off!!

This startup and the second pull gave me the biggest smile. If I were to put this diamond of an engine in a boat, I would name it "The Lung" and give it "a brother" :)

We once drove a 413 dodge commander all over the States. I thought 7.2 Litres was huge. The liters on this Hemi is off the charts. Average engine size in NZ would be 2 litre. Crazy what you get to play with.

1,085HP NA and 1,835HP @25LBS awesome build and thanks for all the information!

When you shown the big block cam in the journal like a hot dog in a hallway, all I could think of is “this is you, this is who she says not to worry about” aka the big black hemi

Do I think I will ever be able to afford a SM engine... Probably not. But I sure as hell love watching this man, and his team work. I love this channel 😁

That’s crazy awesome!! How much would that engine cost??

Deff a monster build! Hey I noticed the copper colored valve seats,berilium? Saw some cylinder head porting clips were fella had copper exhaust and Yellow intake seats... Any idea what's that about

What a Monster Motor!

1247hp NA , 2032hp @ 25 LBS. awesome video Steve.

Can't wait to see this thing with the supercharger. A monster indeed.

1170 HP - NA // 2850 HP Pro-Charged

@14:45 I about feel out of my chair when you named it. (that's my name. LOL), but I just go by Norm. hah!

1200 NA 3200 Boosted 🙏Been watching since I was in middle school and found out about the devel sixteen, love how interactive and informative your content is.

Steve I used to build boxes to heat parts up, it helps heat up the item faster as it helps hold heat in and then you don’t have to direct it at the part as much. Might help with heats engines up faster and more evenly. Just an idea. Love the channel

Material application issues on the head gasket. Normal teething pains when you run on that knife edge. You go Steve!

That engine looks awesome! Going go run hard all day I am sure. Bet it makes 1197 NA and 1854 boosted. Can't go to crazy since it will run higher throttle all day, not just a few seconds at a time. Would love to see the boat this thing is going in!

I put a copper gasket in my "slightly modified" Yamaha RD350LC, it had to be heated cherry red to anneal it before installation.

Just awesome 🙌. In a 93 boosted engine like this will be. What’s your thoughts on water/methanol injection Steve ?? Direct port like pro-meth or alike.

Gotta love that ProCharger! 1350 NA / 2330 @ 25lb

Holy cow, those...... those pushrods!

LOVE the Dewey shirts!!!!!!!!!!!!

You should show Cletus that big turbo

Man, what a monster! When you showed that gasket after the head had been torqued on it, I pretty much guessed that gasket wasn't annealed properly to soften it up. We used to do dirt bike head gaskets like that, and had to take a torch to them until they turned colors and drop them in a pail of water. I'm guessing with a good tune, N/A, you'll be seeing around 1145 hp. and on 25 lbs. of boost, around 1615 hp., maybe a little more? Let's see how close I get.😄👍👍

Great Video Steve, You may want to add a bridge reinforcement to the outside of the engine plate on the left side mount. Even a small gap that is not supported can be a stress riser you have done such great work on everything else why take the chance! just my opinion and i tend to "overbuild" for ultimate strength!

Do the head gasket recessed receiving rings on the block - have to be wider than the raised rings on the heads... to account for the added thickness of the copper gasket? It seems that if they aren't wider, you would end up shearing the copper - instead of just displacing it.

That header coating must be pretty good stuff.

If its ocean water cooled with a elevated saline content you can probably add a hair more timing because of reduced coolant temps. Im going 1198 NA and 2149 on 25lbs. 2275 in cool salt water

Sooo. Curious would a simple stand alone hi-heat water heater , with a universal reciprocating plumbing connection system that would heat the block internally be some cheap insurance along w/ the blast heaters ? just asking , cause I would think you could really heat soak EVEYTHING as well as check for leaks .

Are your improvements to strengthen the mounts putting the mount too close to the header? Would the header transfer heat to the mount back to the block and into the haul?

Is the bore on that hemi being huge making the surface area of the fire ring large enough to cause the clamping force to be less than what's needed to crush the gasket? I wonder if you put the same gasket on a block with a significantly a smaller bore if it would have crushed fully and sealed up. Just a thought

Hey Steve, I believe all it takes to aneal copper gaskets is heat the copper to glowing and quench in water. Opposite of what steel would do.

If you Dyno all your engines. Could you install a small water heater or boiler on your cooling system to warm up the engine for head torque and stabilize operations until it was producing heat on its own. Would be faster than heat guns. Manufacturers Testing Facilities have something similar. Thanks for the videos, Steve.

That lower pushrod angle looks flat...how will it oil that lifter...super pump or is it thru the pushrod with pressure

i’m old-school is still run copper gaskets I’ve never seen a gasket that stiff that roller copper that that came off of the metallurgist screwed up. I bet you there’s a whole bunch of those gaskets out there someone probably tested the hardness and said it’s close enough SMF. Good thing you caught it. That would’ve been a lot of extra work.

Building yourself an oil tank with a heater and circulation pump complete with secondary filtering oil inspection etc.. rig to pre heat soak engines might not warm up the shop as much as air heaters.

Hey Steve, I see that thing has 4 IAC valves. how are you controlling multiple ones or plan on it? I've got some applications that could use dual iacs.