Suburban Small Block

The first-generation Chevy Small Block deserves its reputation as a powerful and reliable engine. It’s the foundation for an old-school stroker build with an emphasis on durability.

Season 8, Episode 7

Latest Engine Power Episodes

Suburban Small Block

The first-generation Chevy Small Block deserves its reputation as a powerful and reliable engine. It’s the foundation for an old-school stroker build with an emphasis on durability.

Suburban Small Block

Season 8, Episode 7

Back to Basics Part II

Want to build your best powerplant? It starts with understanding the fundamentals of engine building: valve lash, header sizing, and more!

Back to Basics Part II

Season 8, Episode 6

Sharpening the Javelin

We take the original anemic 304 powerplant from an AMC Javelin, and turn it into a high-tech muscle car bullet with some bite!

Sharpening the Javelin

Season 8, Episode 5

445 FE Flatbed

Our 445 FE is back, a modern EFI system, along with a time-tested tunnel wedge intake made for drivability.

Season 8, Episode 4

Ford’s Big Buzzin’ Half Dozen

The six-cylinder Ford’s dyno numbers keep climbing as we give it major cam, piston, and cylinder head upgrades.

Ford’s Big Buzzin’ Half Dozen

Season 8, Episode 3

Back to Basics

There are four basic elements that affect an engine’s performance: spark, fuel, air, and lubrication. We’ll show you how to improve each of them WITHOUT cracking open your powerplant.

Season 8, Episode 2

AMC-Powered Postal Jeep

What started as a simple “aerosol overhaul” for a Postal Jeep’s powerplant gets a little more complicated!

AMC-Powered Postal Jeep

Season 8, Episode 1

Engine Power Season 1 Episodes

Budget LS Tech Part 1

Team builds 4.8 LS on the cheap

Budget LS Tech Part 1

Season 1, Episode 1

Budget LS Tech Part 2

The team assembles & dynos 4.8 LS

Budget LS Tech Part 2

Season 1, Episode 2

Part 1 Building an Old Skool Six

Machine shop tech on a Ford straight 6

Part 1 Building an Old Skool Six

Season 1, Episode 3

Hopping Up an Old Skool Six Part 2

Building & dyno testing a hopped up Ford 6

Hopping Up an Old Skool Six Part 2

Season 1, Episode 4

Drivetrain Special

Building a custom driveshaft & installing a clutch

Drivetrain Special

Season 1, Episode 5

LS Oiling Solution

Wet/Dry sump fix for Corvette engine swaps

LS Oiling Solution

Season 1, Episode 6

Twin Turbo Coyote

Twin turbo street Mustang

Twin Turbo Coyote

Season 1, Episode 7

Old Skool Flatty: Part 1 How to Hot Rod a Ford Flathead

Transforming a junkyard Ford flathead into a classic hot rod V8 with prepping the block to handle a stroked rotating assembly.

Old Skool Flatty: Part 1 How to Hot Rod a Ford Flathead

Season 1, Episode 8

Iron Animal Part 1: Building a 408 Stroker

How-to build a modern Chevy stroker starting from scratch with an LQ4 iron truck block strong enough to survive plenty of turbo boost.

Iron Animal Part 1: Building a 408 Stroker

Season 1, Episode 9

Iron Animal Part 2: Flow Bench Testing Heads

The latest GenX cylinder heads are flowed, installed and topped off with multi-port fuel injection before being dyno tuned on pump gas.

Iron Animal Part 2: Flow Bench Testing Heads

Season 1, Episode 10

Barely Legal Mustang Part 1

Transforming an anemic 4 cylinder Mustang with a Ford Racing Coyote Aluminator V8 to become a street legal auto-crosser on steroids.

Barely Legal Mustang Part 1

Season 1, Episode 11

Happy Birthday Hemi

How-to build an original 426 Hemi to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Chrysler's iconic Elephant big block.

Happy Birthday Hemi

Season 1, Episode 12

Barely Legal Mustang Part 2

How-to turn a stock Fox-body into a competition ready corner carver with suspension, big brakes and cage.

Barely Legal Mustang Part 2

Season 1, Episode 13

Old Skool Flatty: 3 Deuce V8

Engine guru Keith Dorton helps build our Ford flathead with 3/4 race cam, high compression heads and 3 deuces.

Old Skool Flatty: 3 Deuce V8

Season 1, Episode 14

Heavy Hitter Hemi: Modern 426

SAM build team transforms late model Hemi into 426" street fighter with an Edelbrock competition supercharger.

Heavy Hitter Hemi: Modern 426

Season 1, Episode 15

Barely Legal Mustang Part 3: Cockpit Tech

Team sets up their Fox-body Mustang for the track with roll cage, buckets, rear seat delete plus trick fuel and exhaust systems.

Barely Legal Mustang Part 3: Cockpit Tech

Season 1, Episode 16

Stealth Crate 427: Heads or Tales?

Cylinder head secrets by Pro Stock engine guru Pat Topolinski unlock the potential of a big block Chevy crate motor.

Stealth Crate 427: Heads or Tales?

Season 1, Episode 17

Stealth Crate 427: Nitrous Madness

Team cams-up their factory Chevy crate 427 and adds a big nitrous shot unlocking 800 HP at the crank.

Stealth Crate 427: Nitrous Madness

Season 1, Episode 18

Iron Animal 408: Wicked Turbo Power

How to turbo-charge an iron block LS stroker to make 1000 horsepower with a single 88mm turbo and air-to-air intercooler.

Iron Animal 408: Wicked Turbo Power

Season 1, Episode 19

Camaro Combat Prep

Drag car body panel kit transforms production COPO into '14 factory model and blown RS G-Machine gets serious brake package.

Camaro Combat Prep

Season 1, Episode 20

Barely Legal Mustang: Facelift

Fox-body gets new track-day skin, plus power tuning normally aspirated and supercharged 5.0 Coyotes.

Barely Legal Mustang: Facelift

Season 1, Episode 21

Lime Dime: 427 Big Block

Team creates over-the-top street/strip pickup wedging a nitrous-powered 427 big block into a compact S10.

Lime Dime: 427 Big Block

Season 1, Episode 22

Lime Dime: More Power

How-to bolt on 150 HP with a wet-nitrous system, install a bed-mounted radiator and index J-wire spark plugs.

Lime Dime: More Power

Season 1, Episode 23

Engine Power Builds

We build a wicked dirt track car, starting with a hand-built chassis and hi-tech suspension!

A triple threat G-Machine!

Triple Threat Camaro

The Engine Power guys have turbo guru John Urist in the shop to add big power to GM’s latest Camaro. Twin turbos and the new LT1 powerplant are the perfect recipe to spin the dyno rollers to big numbers…..

2017 Camaro (Hellion)

Pat and Mike start the transformation of a stock Mustang GT into the Rislone Mustang Sweepstakes Ride. They install a track engineered suspension system, massive brakes, plus wheels and tires.

Yellow Fever Black Magic (Rislone Mustang)

The Engine Power guys are impressed with the power gains from the Edelbrock supercharger, so they attack the suspension, clutch and brakes with familiar performance enhancements.

Opposites Attract (Scion)

Mike and Pat modernize a mid 90's themed Pro Street '62 Chevy II Nova.

Pro Street or No Street (Nova)

Pat and Mike look for big power from the factory supercharged power house found in the Cadillas CTS-V's

Cadillac LSA 427

A 3 stage build of the durable small block Chevy. A back to basics 355 inch powerplant that makes great reliable power for under 4000 bucks.

In House Power Mouse

Team installs 200-mph capable suspension on its 1,000-hp '63 Galaxie

Half Mile Hauler (Galaxie)

C6 Z06 gets new Track Day brake package, suspension upgrades, sticky tires plus get more LS7 power with long-tube headers.

Pat and Mike team up with Duplicolor to build old skool street rod with Factory Five Racing's '33 hot rod kit

Team makes big street/strip power on a budget by stroking a stock 5.0L small block Ford to 347

Team resurrects and hot rods Mopar's indestructible 6 cylinder, the bulletproof 225 Dodge Slant Six.

Team creates over-the-top street/strip pickup wedging a nitrous-powered 427 big block into a compact S10.

Transforming an anemic 4 cylinder Mustang with a Ford Racing Coyote Aluminator V8 to become a street legal auto-crosser on steroids.

Barely Legal Mustang

How-to build a modern Chevy stroker starting from scratch with an LQ4 iron truck block strong enough to survive plenty of turbo boost.

"Iron Animal" 408 Turbo

Transforming a junkyard Ford flathead into a classic hot rod V8 with prepping the block to handle a stroked rotating assembly.

Ford "Old Skool Flatty"

70's era Ford inline six by taking it to a local auto machine shop.

Engine Power builds a 4.8 LS on the cheap starting with a junk yard 4.8L iron block out of a Chevy truck.

Engine Power TV Schedule

NBC Sports Network

Thu Mar 11 3:00pm ET

Back to Basics

Back to Basics

Season 8, Episode 2

NBC Sports Network

Thu Mar 11 3:30pm ET

Ford’s Big Buzzin’ Half Dozen

Ford’s Big Buzzin’ Half Dozen

Season 8, Episode 3

NBC Sports Network

Tue Mar 16 6:00pm ET

445 FE Flatbed

445 FE Flatbed

Season 8, Episode 4

NBC Sports Network

Fri Mar 19 11:30pm ET

Sharpening the Javelin

Sharpening the Javelin

Season 8, Episode 5