Engine Performance Expo Season 4
Aired live in January 2024
Expo 2024 – Episode 29: Balancing with Jimmy Barton
Randy Neal takes us to Morrisville, North Carolina, home of Jimmy Barton’s Custom Performance Engines to take a deep dive into the do’s and don’ts of balancing.
Expo 2024 – Episode 30: Engine Builder Interview: Mark Vieau
Joe Castello & Lake Speed Jr sit down with Mark Vieau of Scott Performance Wire to talk about his storied history in engine building and racing
Expo 2024 – Episode 31: How to Run a Machine Shop Today
Lake Speed Jr sits down with Straub Technologies’ owner, Chris Straub, to learn why automation is the key to a machine shop’s growth in today’s market.
Expo 2024 – Episode 32: Roundtable Discussion – Engine Design vs Engine Development
Our experts sit down to discuss the pros and cons of building an engine from scratch vs developing one based on the rules dictated by a sport’s governing body
Expo 2024 – Episode 33: Camshafts Mods for Boost vs NA
For this episode we head back to EFI University for a class on using engine data to make camshaft mods for boosted engines versus naturally aspirated ones
Expo 2024 – Episode 34: Engine Builder Hall of Fame Inductions (Part 2)
The Engine Builder Hall of Fame’s inaugural class of admissions covering the heroes of performance engine builders from the second half of the 20th century.
Expo 2024 – Episode 35: Lifter Bore Indexing
We head down to the shop floor at CNC Blockworks where Embry Harrick and Ryan Thompson from Rottler Mfg walk through the hows and whys of lifter bore indexing
Expo 2024 – Episode 36: Engine Builder Interview – Darin Morgan
Joe Castello & Lake Speed Jr sit down with Darin Morgan of BES Racing to talk about his storied history in engine building and racing
Expo 2024 – Episode 37: Surface Finish After Break-In
In this episode we look at how much surface finish changes between a freshly honed block, after engine assembly and finally after its first break-in run.
Expo 2024 – Episode 38: Project Pontiac Update
Joe Castello & Lake Speed Jr join Jolie Woods (daughter of Joe “Dominator” Woods) for an update on Jolie's progress on the work on Castello's Pontiac block
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