hey everyone Rylis Productions here we just got our PREFIX built 426 aluminum
gen 3 Hemi in earlier today from the shipping freight company and wanted to
show you guys what's inside the plastic and you crate that it comes in so here
is the engine itself this is a 426 cubic inch seven liter displacement Gen 3 Hemi
if you can see there it is an aluminum block and then down there you can see a
Milodon race pan we do a number of modifications to our engine
builds to make it more reliable at the track. We replace out the OEM
damper with an ATI super damper because this is a very robust piece we swap out
the throttle body to a fast big mouth 87 millimeter throttle body I'll be like it
because you can easily attach a throttle cable to an E body gas pedal
we also swapped out the OEM steel water neck to Billet Technologies aluminum
piece to further minimize any electrolysis that happens in the cooling
system as you can see we still run a 5.7 Eagle plastic intake as well as plastic valve
covers to further minimize any extra weight that's on this engine if I
estimate this engine it should be around 420 pounds the shipping company list
said they crate the plastic crate and the engine itself had 460 pounds and I'm
assuming that the place plastic rate is around 40 pounds so it's a it's a really
lightweight engine on the majority that is due to the aluminum block by panel or
to the rear you can see the block a little little better it's the older 6.1
aluminum block design from arrow racing they cast these blocks a couple of years
ago you can see it does not have the ribbing that's available in the 7.0 and
6.4 drag pack blocks that are available for Mopar if those blocks have extra
ribbing here in the valley and the at the motor mount areas to make them a
little stouter for drag racing use that being said this block is no slouch it'll
still handle a lot of horsepower up to a thousand at least according to Prefix
and we only require 500 rear wheel for a road course use so this block will be
plenty for our purposes if we pan up you can see that it still has the OEM fuel
rail assembly this om is set up for the few rails is as far for the street but
it's a deadhead setup and we don't like to use this so we're gonna use a
Fore Innovations billet fuel rail setup which is a full return system that keeps the
fuel a little bit cooler when you're going around the road horse we use a
similar or similar setup on the CUDA and speaking of which who this engine is
here this engine was built by era racing a couple of years ago and it's been
really reliable and fun at the road courses that we run in Northern
California what we learn from this engine we're going to apply to the 73
Challenger build and that car is going to be
a fun ride for whoever the lucky owner will will be when they get it in
the future when we're done with it so that's the motor there and here is a
motor again we still have a lot of work to do to this motor we need to swap out
the oil pressure and oil temperature sensors we're not going to use these
we're going to swap those out we're going to block this off with a 1/8
NPT there so it doesn't leak and we're gonna replace this sensor with a 3/8 NPT
-10AN which goes to our remote Moroso oil filter setup we're gonna get rid of
the Mopar filter and we're gonna use a oil filter bypass adaptor for that which
you can see here, we still have to install the throttle cable and these are some
bolts for the for the crankshaft for the flywheel so like I said we still have a
lot of work to do to this to this engine to get it to our full specs and running
but this is by far the biggest and most difficult piece for our puzzle that is
the 73 Challenger build we're very happy to be lucky enough to get it in our
hands and this is what you get when you buy a PREFIX built engine they are
very good engine builders and they supply the TA2 series for all the makes
Ford, GM as well as Mopar and getting one of their engine builds
is a great addition to your your project and we love them and this is our second
PREFIX engine so just wanted to share it with you guys but that being said we
still have a lot of work like said but where our focus is going to switch over
to our workshop it's getting kind of tight here in our garage at Rylis
Productions so for the our next project is going to be a 36 x 42 workshop that
we're gonna erect over the summer. once that is up we're gonna move our
operations to that larger workshop so we can focus on our projects there and so
we can grow but for now we just wanted to share our engine with you and stay
tuned it's going to be a fun build so that's it for now
this is Rylis Productions see you guys at the track later