Admittedly, the latest Redline Rebuild from Hagerty has not been the most wildly exciting or off the beaten project ever executed on the internet, but it has a lot of value. Why? Basically because you can stroke one of these things without actually buying any “high performance” parts.
The crank and rods are factory pieces, albeit out of another Jeep engine variant but still. The vast majority of, if not all the stuff to do this engine was garnered at Rock Auto, a place that most of of think about as supplier of replacement parts for a daily driver and not a source for projects like this. Even the cam is a reground unit from Delta and there are other little upgrades. The addition of 24 lb-hr injectors up from the factory original 18 lb-hr jobs is neat and will add a little more snap to the mill.
Is it as cool as some seldom seen engine from the 1940s or 1950s? No. Is it more educational and practical? Hell yes. We’re hoping some enterprising kids have seen this and want to make a 4.6L como of their own!
