Making massive amounts of horsepower on methanol or high octane racing fuel is one thing.  And that’s usually what must go through the tank in order for it to survive.  But doing it on legitimate, 93 octane pump gas from the local stop-n-rob is a completely different, much taller order.

Steve Morris at New Era Racecraft put together this great little documentary video of the process of dynoing a 2,100 horsepower engine that’s in his shop.  This engine is for Jason Weir over in the UK that runs a sharp delivery van. Rather comically, Steve goes to great lengths to prove that this engine does indeed run on pump gas, filming his entire drive to the station to fill up the fuel jug, driving back to his shop with the camera on the fuel jug in the bed of his truck the entire way, and carrying it to the fuel tank that is hooked to the engine dyno.  And from the audio in the video, Morris may be able to line up his Ford Ranger on the grid at Monaco… or maybe he just has the video sped up.

The engine measures 540 cubic inches, with a Dart short-deck aluminum block, with New Era’s custom piston and ring package along with a custom camshaft designed by Steve himself.  Internals include MGP aluminum rods, Jesel rockers, Callies Magnum 2 crankshaft. It also features 12-degree ProFiler Hitman cylinder heads and an Edelbrock intake topped by a CSU carburetor fed by an intercooled F3 139 Procharger spun by a 1.17 gear set.  The trash can full of ice water for the intercooler may be the most technological piece of machinery we’ve ever seen.  Hey, whatever works, right?

At just 11 pounds of boost and 5400 RPM, this thing made over 1,300 horsepower.  At just under 7,500 RPM and 21 pounds of boost, 2,099 horses and 1,475 ft/lb of torque – all on 93 octane.