093: How Do You Build a 4500+hp Engine for the Strip AND the Street?

Drive nearly a thousand miles cross country, sit in traffic for hours, and spend your days laying down five and six-second ETs at the drag strip for a week solid? ‘Drag and drive’ events are a unique form of torture for some of the world’s fastest street cars. In this episode, Steve of Steve Morris Engines is on the podcast to tell us how he builds a 4500+hp motor that can handle that kind of punishment.

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Steve Morris is one of the true legends of the drag engine building scene, and in this episode, we start by getting an interesting look into the convoluted path that his career and business took to get where it is today.

That business is best known for its extremely high horsepower boosted V8 packages — especially the all-billet SMX and SML engines. One of the biggest selling points of these insane engines is that they’re street-capable, and have proven themselves time and time again in tortuous drag and drive events across the States.

These events require a car to be able to carry all its own spares (usually by towing a small trailer) and drive large distances between race venues within a one-week period — occasionally sitting in traffic for extended periods of time. Steve goes into detail on the unique challenges this form of racing presents and how he builds engines for it that are up to the task, giving up some tasty engine-building insight and knowledge carved from years worth of research and development.

With some great conversations around the age-old superchargers versus turbochargers debate, favoured ECU options for this type of racing, the usefulness and reliability of electronic wastegates and more, this episode is well worth a listen.

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