The crown jewel of my second boat, Limitless, is her engine – a 491 Big Block Chevy. It’s taken years to plan everything, another year in purgatory for the original engine to show up, disappear, and then finally leave for good…and now I’m building engine #2, the real one, as you can read about here. Follow along as I detail the planning, component choice, machine work, the various phases of building, the final dyno test, and installation of the boat. A sub part of the overall Limitless build, but with enough weight to carry it’s own subsection of the blog…I might even name the engine too!
Engine Building 101 – Planning
Part Selection – Over 500 Ways to Screw Up!
Machine Shops – Your Partner in Crime
Clean Clean Clean Crank Clean Clean
Piston Prep – A Frustrating Exercise in Twisting Metal Rings
Pistons Part 2 – Installing the Pistons / Rods into the Engine
The Brain and the Train part 1 – The valve train