It is weird that we live in an era when you can be cruising YouTube and see so many videos of 1,000-2,000hp turbocharged engines that it gets boring. That’s why we almost skipped over this awesome cut from the School of Automotive Machinists that shows their naturally aspirated LSx engine turning 9,000 RPM on the pump and making more than 1,000 hp! Boy does this thing sound bad ass at this stratospheric engine levels. This is the engine that powers the school’s world beating 1999 Camaro drag car. Displacing only 438ci, it is an efficient mill making more than 2hp per ci without the help of a blower or nitrous.

The muscle car era was great, but THESE are the good old days. The days when guys are making the kind of power on gasoline that drag racers dreamed about making on nitro years ago. A 1,000hp naturally aspirated small block? Even 10 years ago you would have been drug tested for suggesting such a thing, now it is becoming kind of a common deal. Technology rules!

Press play and watch this hellacious LSx engine go to work!