Builders Davin and Matt spent ten months and shot more than 40,000 photographs to document every stage of rebuilding a Chrysler Hemi FirePower V8 for Hagerty’s Redline Rebuild series, and by their own account, this one was trickier than anything they’d tackled before. The finished time-lapse has drawn over 16 million views, proof that watching an engine come back to life one bolt at a time still has an enormous audience. See exactly what made this particular Hemi rebuild harder than the rest.
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Hagerty’s Redline Rebuild team started with an ordinary 289 cubic-inch V8 pulled from a wrecked 1964 Ford Fairlane, not a fresh crate engine, and set out to build it into something closer to a Shelby GT350 mill. Three months and roughly 40,000 reference photos later, period-correct upgrades pushed output from a stock 195 horsepower to around 310. Watch the full teardown-to-rebuild transformation, compressed into five action-packed minutes.
