I respect how you kept running it after the explosion and copious smoke. A noob would have shut it down right away, not realizing that in many cases, like 65% or more, these problems self-resolve with the application of just a little more throttle.
Yes, many's the time I've seen the engine heal its own crankcase from the inside, retrieve its piston from the dyno floor and fit it back on the little end of the twisted conrod, all while at 4000rpm on half throttle. Occasionally, I've seen really good engines refill themselves with Castrol 10W60 racing oil, but that was only a few times. Those "noobs" don't know anything!!!
I saw a guy blow up a naturally aspirated big block in a roadster one night at our local drag strip. It spit two rods out of the block and knocked holes in the block on both sides. He drove it back to the pit area and you could see the crank rotating and it was running fine on 6 cylinders. Probably had zero oil pressure.
@@donziperk The other cylinder head, valves, rockers, pushrods, lifters, and maybe some pistons and rods from the cylinders that didn't blow up could be saved
Id love to see what things looked like as its being torn down, the failed parts and collateral damage. Had a 800cc 2 stroke that had a new Wiseco piston seperate at the pin on the first WOT pull. Destroyed the engine, rod mauled the cylinder and cases.
No Steve’s explosion was a result of brittle rods with way more power than could take. I highly doubt that happened here he was also making 4,500 hp when they broke
@@cameronboan627 Yes, those rods looked like shattered glass. Never should been made that way. Aluminum should bend and break, not shatter like glass. Could have been the fact that those rods were anodized, which creates a hard layer. Also, maybe the type of aluminum they used work hardened too fast, too short of the useable lifespan of comparable aluminum rods.
I haven't read but I'm guessing lean on fuel because I was wondering why it built RPM and power and sound at very partial throttle but once it was opened up it seemed to fall flat I didn't even know there was going to be a failure so it sounded like it just didn't make power after a point that should have been noticed because I noticed it. For all I knew the failure was at redline or after throttle down but I was confused why it fell flat once the throttles were part quarter open
Let me get this straight: the manually operated shut-off switch for the experiment is one inch away from the ridiculously high RPM belt on the front of the engine? Wise, very wise.
With a magneto ignition, you shut down engine by cutting fuel, which he did. Grounding out magneto is not a reliable way to shut off the engine, it may continue to run, a.k.a. diesel,
@@quicksilver462 Even then you should have that connected to a remote controlled solenoid that can be shut off outside of the dino room in the control room. Watch engine power on power nation ordination to see what a professional Dino looks like.
When I worked in a major brand diesel shop in the early 70’s our engine dyno room had no shut off to the electric fuel pump. You walked all around the engine under load as it was being tested. On the exhaust/ turbo side, it was very close to the wall, you had to squeeze by checking for oil and coolant leaks around the heads etc. The only way to shut the engine down was by manually back off the fuel pump solenoid. That took a few turns. Once when I was running in the engine at progressive load levels, the drive shaft failed, and was banging around in the safety tunnel. It was an old waterwheel balance beam unit. I was quite frazzled, as in I thought my sex drive just fell off. I shut down the engine, and then the city water supply that loaded, and cooled the waterwheel. After reinstalling another shaft, ( we kept spares ) I fired up the engine again, as I increased the RPM, I watched in horror the large diameter water hose connection expand like a ballon ! It burst and a geyser of hot water hit the ceiling and gave me a hot shower. I had enough for the day. Good time to clean the tools. We had a larger dyno on the other side of the room that could handle the 1710 series V-12’s.
THAT is supposed to be1,500hp? I'll let you try to spread that bull.take 500 off on account of the lack of a properly setup dyno machine. If you want to see a well setup dyno, look at Steve brule, and the dyno he operates. This one is just horrible. It's not bad, it's worse than bad. Never have the shut off switch ON the engine! That's how someone could be injured, and if the engine were on fire, you couldn't stop the damned thing, and that could kill someone! Etc were they thinking?
trust me that worry never goes away. ive built quite a few small engines over the years and car engines too. every single first fire is nerve wracking. and every hard run is the same thing. yeah i know ive never had a catastrophic failure on an engine ive built that was due to me. but every part i used has human error smeared all over it and could be the potential cause of a new window in a block or cylinder. or could be my first big mistake. hell one of my last builds was a 2 stroke that has held together for over 30k miles. the cylinder has changed 2-3 times due to goals changing but that thing has went over 10k miles in a cylinder too. every noise it made was pucker factor lol. sooner or later you just expect them to fail and then every drive is a pleasure cause you always make it home. the last small block i built i now worry about the transmission grenading or the rear end every time i hit the gas but it used to be the motor. it owes me nothing at this point but i dont wanna lose it and i cant keep my foot outta the gas.
Yeah some of these guys like to tune shit right on the brink of destruction, Trying to extract every last little bit a horse power at red line. Timing wasn't quite right and probably ran way too lean.
you are only able to push iron steel or aluminum until it reaches the max. you can only push it so hard until it reaches critical failure. thats why you dont do that to a 1500hp engine. it might seem like its strong enough to handle that kind of power but it really isnt
It's like a _Wyle E. Peyote_ episode, where he dialed in his A.C.M.E. rocket too lean for prime time. Before you can keep up, you've got catch up. 😶 Fortunately, no _HEMIs_ were harmed in this demonstration.
Hanging pistons on the con rod backwards will do that. Bad habits are hard to break. Breaking hardparts is easy. _"Stronger parts will ficks it!"_ _"Next time, let's put the side of the block on the shock tower. Shall we? Now That's Power !!!"_
Did this engine belong to the shop? Maybe that's why there didn't seem a rush to shut it down. On the other hand, I'd hate to be the one breaking the news to a customer.
Sure you have Jim I’ve built just about every engine from every manufacturer 3cyl 4cyl 5cyl 6-8-10cyl Turbo Detroit’s Cummins CATs And that means nothing. You haven’t built shit if you have never seen a parts failure. I just love the clowns quick to blame who know it all. Your probably a Brandon supporter who is still wearing a face diaper
Engines don't just blow up for no reason, or without any warning. An expensive engine like this, hooked up to a dyno and being monitored every millisecond, would absolutely have thrown up a red flag moments before catastrophic failure. So, what happened? Did the guy on the laptop just _forget_ to set safe shutdown limits while they adjust the fueling, or did he fall asleep and ignore the gauges going wild? Either way, I think someone just got his ass kicked by a furious engine owner.
Why did they even do the test- that thing wasnt right from the get go. Im guessing it was an already hurt engine that they decided to video as a live grenade.
Seems to me she chucked a head gasket because it sounded like all 8 and just white smoke, cylinder failure is usually blue and noisy and missy if the ol girl popped a piston. just my opinion
Yea because people are putting ford engines in everything. There's a reason people are putting ls swaps in everything, because they're reliable. Haven't seen many ford engines in anything but fords. Maybe because they're garbage, idk.
Nice to see there is no shut down at the controls. 👍
Agreed
Mad Max Morons
1st thing I thought too, why the hell ain't they killin this thing? Takes about 5secs for one piston to turn into 4 pistons lol
There is a reason for that, but ofcourse you don't know what it is. Read some of the comments.
@@romper4444 Not even, it can happen in one single stroke.
@@kanervatieAfter one year, apparently they all deleted them for maybe spreading misinformations? Because I can’t find any.
I respect how you kept running it after the explosion and copious smoke. A noob would have shut it down right away, not realizing that in many cases, like 65% or more, these problems self-resolve with the application of just a little more throttle.
The fuk??? Don't buy cars from you!
Yes, many's the time I've seen the engine heal its own crankcase from the inside, retrieve its piston from the dyno floor and fit it back on the little end of the twisted conrod, all while at 4000rpm on half throttle. Occasionally, I've seen really good engines refill themselves with Castrol 10W60 racing oil, but that was only a few times. Those "noobs" don't know anything!!!
@@robair67 The trick is to go full throttle, then back off to 50% and then back on it hard. The process is called "rebuild-blip"
@Collen Flarity If you have to ask that question then you have already answered your question
@@therestorationshop It's all in the throttle control!!
I saw a guy blow up a naturally aspirated big block in a roadster one night at our local drag strip. It spit two rods out of the block and knocked holes in the block on both sides. He drove it back to the pit area and you could see the crank rotating and it was running fine on 6 cylinders. Probably had zero oil pressure.
That sounds like watching a zombie walk around with it's chest open and heart exposed and beating lol
Some JB Weld and some fresh oil. Good to go again.
That sounds terrible and awesome at the same time. I'd love to see something like that happen.
As long as the crank is turning you have oil pressure. It's running on the gears on the distributor assembly and the cam
@michael smith it's not that bad lol
Customer: How much power does it make?
Dyno guys: About 0hp now
It’ll make as much power as you want, the question is how often do you want to rebuild it?
...a new rod, a little JB Weld, add some oil...try it again.
That's 20k down the drain, another home equity loan coming up 🤣
Almost as bad as RC jet hobby.
Rod knocking on the door like it wanted to be let out. Don't worry, it found its way out through the window
To have a machine like that, you have, to have deep pockets
Bit late on the off switch, it wasn’t going to improve after the explosion and the smoke !
It’s not like they were standing right next to it.
Not like turning it off quicker was going to save it.
@@donziperk could save other parts from being damaged by lack of oil or the connecting rod and chunks of piston being thrown around.
@@Mrshotshell After a major failure like that theres not much internal that is going ti be reusable.
@@donziperk The other cylinder head, valves, rockers, pushrods, lifters, and maybe some pistons and rods from the cylinders that didn't blow up could be saved
Seems safe enough to walk up to a high performance engine that's in the process of catastrophic failure
Mad max...if I was Max ..I'd be furious
See what he did there folks, huh huh see it...lol
Or.....mad.
As Ian Hubnut would say "I'm gonna call that less than ideal."
Needs More Cowbell !! 🤔
All the tools and parts and bits and bobs you see hanging in the engine room become secondary shrapnel when the real explosion happens.
Id love to see what things looked like as its being torn down, the failed parts and collateral damage. Had a 800cc 2 stroke that had a new Wiseco piston seperate at the pin on the first WOT pull. Destroyed the engine, rod mauled the cylinder and cases.
All 8 rods shatter .... th-cam.com/video/com9fTAr7eU/w-d-xo.html
No Steve’s explosion was a result of brittle rods with way more power than could take. I highly doubt that happened here he was also making 4,500 hp when they broke
@@cameronboan627 Yes, those rods looked like shattered glass. Never should been made that way. Aluminum should bend and break, not shatter like glass. Could have been the fact that those rods were anodized, which creates a hard layer. Also, maybe the type of aluminum they used work hardened too fast, too short of the useable lifespan of comparable aluminum rods.
@@cameronboan627 Electrical problem. New a guy who raced a Ducati Pantha. Threw a rod. Took the starter motor off. Diagnoses. Electrical Problem.
@@machwind3266 yeah possibly he tested his usual rods on a 33 ton press I belive and they barely even bent much less shatter into a million pieces
surprised the motor kept running for several seconds after that kaboom,intead of suddenly stopping
billet parts💪
Fix her right up again
High compression will do that
*engine
No, these idiots did not have a kill switch
Sounded off from the jump fellas.
Sounded like Uncle Rodney
That’s just how I feel….piston broke.
I don't know why he pushed it, it sounded like there was something wrong.
Damn dude I told you we needed that part.
You see the engine blow and the first thing you check after shutdown is belt tension?
@wolfpacguy no engine timing comes off the blower belt, timing is done via the chain or gearset behind the timing cover
Checking to see if it snapped the front of the crank off
😂 👏 If the dyno had tires, he would have kicked them.
@@watos5473
I would guess that as a sign that this is nøt their first rodeo.
🤣
Tell little Bobby to forget about going to college, Dad just hinged another motor.
I don't know about the zinc content in the oil but there's going to be a ton of aluminium.
I haven't read but I'm guessing lean on fuel because I was wondering why it built RPM and power and sound at very partial throttle but once it was opened up it seemed to fall flat I didn't even know there was going to be a failure so it sounded like it just didn't make power after a point that should have been noticed because I noticed it. For all I knew the failure was at redline or after throttle down but I was confused why it fell flat once the throttles were part quarter open
Dyno loads the engine. Very common when the throttle is open the dyno drags the engine down a few rpm.
That's when they start adding the load on the dyno. There's no real load on the engine until the dyno starts adding resistance.
I guess they now know what thst bit that was left over when they assembled it was for.
Let me get this straight: the manually operated shut-off switch for the experiment is one inch away from the ridiculously high RPM belt on the front of the engine? Wise, very wise.
What a shit heap ... didn't even sound like it was gunna lay down anything ... I've heard Cummins diesels with an angrier bark than that .
agreed, I've heard John Deere 2 cylinders with more bark than that.
The only laying I heard was it laying over just before death
it sounded like he may have had the dyno over braked.
You need to enter the dyno room to shutdown the engine ???? What if a fire starts ? Are they for real ?
Plus the "Dyno Room" looks like it's just their workshop.
With a magneto ignition, you shut down engine by cutting fuel, which he did. Grounding out magneto is not a reliable way to shut off the engine, it may continue to run, a.k.a. diesel,
@@quicksilver462 Even then you should have that connected to a remote controlled solenoid that can be shut off outside of the dino room in the control room. Watch engine power on power nation ordination to see what a professional Dino looks like.
First time they had to shut one off, they usually stop on their own , violently.
When I worked in a major brand diesel shop in the early 70’s our engine dyno room had no shut off to the electric fuel pump. You walked all around the engine under load as it was being tested. On the exhaust/ turbo side, it was very close to the wall, you had to squeeze by checking for
oil and coolant leaks around the heads etc. The only way to shut the engine down was by manually back off the fuel pump solenoid. That took a
few turns. Once when I was running in the engine at progressive load levels, the drive shaft failed, and was banging around in the safety tunnel.
It was an old waterwheel balance beam unit. I was quite frazzled, as in I thought my sex drive just fell off. I shut down the engine, and then the
city water supply that loaded, and cooled the waterwheel. After reinstalling another shaft, ( we kept spares ) I fired up the engine again, as I
increased the RPM, I watched in horror the large diameter water hose connection expand like a ballon ! It burst and a geyser of hot water hit the
ceiling and gave me a hot shower. I had enough for the day. Good time to clean the tools. We had a larger dyno on the other side of the room
that could handle the 1710 series V-12’s.
There goes a few thousand bucks.
Why post this disaster? Looks like an advert for their rivals!
Horsepower, horsepower, horsepower, BOOM!
I think we found the weak link.
That belt sure looked loose…
If too tight as the supercharger expands it can break the front of the crank snout
Just right actually!👍🏼
Oops, that sounds expensive !!
Still not like shattering ALL eight connecting rods at the end of the track!!! LOL!
THAT is supposed to be1,500hp? I'll let you try to spread that bull.take 500 off on account of the lack of a properly setup dyno machine. If you want to see a well setup dyno, look at Steve brule, and the dyno he operates. This one is just horrible. It's not bad, it's worse than bad. Never have the shut off switch ON the engine! That's how someone could be injured, and if the engine were on fire, you couldn't stop the damned thing, and that could kill someone! Etc were they thinking?
The etc is supposed to be wtf but you know, auto correct.
I was thinking it maybe it's some bloke with his home engine Dyno set-up. Pretty shoddy for a professional shop.
Yeah, that's honestly incredibly stupid.
Obviously make a remote switch.
I like how he stays next to it for a minute to suck up a little of those sweet exhaust fumes
My biggest concern, putting it all together and then this happening.
trust me that worry never goes away. ive built quite a few small engines over the years and car engines too. every single first fire is nerve wracking. and every hard run is the same thing. yeah i know ive never had a catastrophic failure on an engine ive built that was due to me. but every part i used has human error smeared all over it and could be the potential cause of a new window in a block or cylinder. or could be my first big mistake. hell one of my last builds was a 2 stroke that has held together for over 30k miles. the cylinder has changed 2-3 times due to goals changing but that thing has went over 10k miles in a cylinder too. every noise it made was pucker factor lol. sooner or later you just expect them to fail and then every drive is a pleasure cause you always make it home. the last small block i built i now worry about the transmission grenading or the rear end every time i hit the gas but it used to be the motor. it owes me nothing at this point but i dont wanna lose it and i cant keep my foot outta the gas.
It didn't sound right in the beginning listen to it !
It would be a miracle to hear anything in that audio
Oh hell, some JB weld, sawdust & bananas and everything can be fixed.
SHUT 'ER DOWN,QUICK !! My condolences for your loss.😔👍✌🇨🇦
Jim Thomas
Did any of the Chevy engines you claim to have built make more than 250 hp?
Kinda hard to hurt them with so little power!
Maybe it is the audio and he didn't hear that something was off from the first rev.
You could hear something was off from the start
Yeah some of these guys like to tune shit right on the brink of destruction, Trying to extract every last little bit a horse power at red line. Timing wasn't quite right and probably ran way too lean.
That low rpm load got it
Wow sorry man. I hate that happened would not wish that on anybody 😢
Just look at the supercharger belt flopping away and passing all those harmonics to the crankshaft.
nothing explodes like a Shiverlay
Ohhh, that's painful to watch!!!
I do suspect that engine simply burnt a piston,, far more common than broken rods
That was an expensive short video. I really hate it for you folks.
always remember to check your belts!
Unfortunately the whining is no longer coming from his blower.
That’s a lot of money in the dump lol
Always pay for a Dyno run before you pick up YA new engine lol
I love the cambelt check at the end😂 maybe its ok 😂😂
I think that is the most cowboy dyno place I have ever seen 🤦♂️🤦♂️
This is why I like stock motors I rarely go over 2000rpm. Boring aren't I?
Good thing the belt is still nice n tight 👍
you are only able to push iron steel or aluminum until it reaches the max. you can only push it so hard until it reaches critical failure. thats why you dont do that to a 1500hp engine. it might seem like its strong enough to handle that kind of power but it really isnt
There are race engines that are 5 and almost 10 times as powerful...what are you talking about?
@@codymoe4986 different materials
Wonder how much that cost.
That’s what I was thinking. Ouch that is going too hurt the wallet.🙏🙏👍💪
10k +
It's like a _Wyle E. Peyote_ episode, where he dialed in his A.C.M.E. rocket too lean for prime time.
Before you can keep up, you've got catch up. 😶
Fortunately, no _HEMIs_ were harmed in this demonstration.
This is a Finnish workshop. Under Mad Max it says "Finnish animal cremation", quite a random sponsor..
I also have always wanted a engine dyno in my basement.
hey extra windows let you just check the bearings easier.
TH-cam: Wanna see some guy blow up his kids college money in 42 seconds? 🤣
So.... a little less than 1500hp now?
This dyno set up is just waiting to kill someone or burn your entire shop to the ground.
moment they rolled into the throttle you could hear that thing was hurt.
It sounded good for a while. Hyvaa video
Mad max went too fast, too furious, at the piston thunderdome 8 shall enter, only 1 leaves.....
Damn thing kept running!! Dude had to shut it off!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Needs a smooth idler on the charger belt.
Let’s just keep it cranked to 11 after it ate itself.
Hanging pistons on the con rod backwards will do that.
Bad habits are hard to break.
Breaking hardparts is easy.
_"Stronger parts will ficks it!"_
_"Next time, let's put the side of the block on the shock tower. Shall we? Now That's Power !!!"_
Max was mad!
Did this engine belong to the shop? Maybe that's why there didn't seem a rush to shut it down.
On the other hand, I'd hate to be the one breaking the news to a customer.
Someone can't build a Chevy Engine
Jim- you ever consider parts failure or it’s just automatically someone is incompetent??
@@philipmazzuca2269 ,
It's someone who is incompetent,
Because I have built more Chevy engines than your family has fingers and toes ,
Zero Failures
Sure you have Jim
I’ve built just about every engine from every manufacturer 3cyl 4cyl 5cyl 6-8-10cyl
Turbo Detroit’s
Cummins
CATs
And that means nothing. You haven’t built shit if you have never seen a parts failure. I just love the clowns quick to blame who know it all. Your probably a Brandon supporter who is still wearing a face diaper
@@jimthomas7251 how many were making 1500hp?
@@travislivengood2744 most likely not very many even over 500
Engines don't just blow up for no reason, or without any warning.
An expensive engine like this, hooked up to a dyno and being monitored every millisecond, would absolutely have thrown up a red flag moments before catastrophic failure.
So, what happened? Did the guy on the laptop just _forget_ to set safe shutdown limits while they adjust the fueling, or did he fall asleep and ignore the gauges going wild?
Either way, I think someone just got his ass kicked by a furious engine owner.
You are funny.........because engines blow up ALL the time. Without warning !!!!!!!!! LOL
Not enough ring gap, 8 though per inch for blown engines..
Dang! From treasure to trash!! Hopefully salvageable parts for a redo.
I would not trust any part of that engine ever again, TBH the only thing it's good for is a boat anchor.
Right, make sure the blower belt is OK!
There go's the trip to Byron
How many thousands of dollars did cooking that motor cost?
I don't think she ever even woke up.
Why did they even do the test- that thing wasnt right from the get go. Im guessing it was an already hurt engine that they decided to video as a live grenade.
Chevy. The reason we are going to EV.
Thank God it wasn't a transmission video.
All that power just to blow up during a dyno…
Seems to me she chucked a head gasket because it sounded like all 8 and just white smoke, cylinder failure is usually blue and noisy and missy if the ol girl popped a piston. just my opinion
That is about the smallest test area.
Covered under warranty?
GEEZ!. When you hear the "CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK" shut the damm thing off.
You need to walk into the dyno room to shut it down ! What a joke.
What did you expect from a Chevy
Watch real slow …… it sucked in a FORD !!
Yea because people are putting ford engines in everything. There's a reason people are putting ls swaps in everything, because they're reliable. Haven't seen many ford engines in anything but fords. Maybe because they're garbage, idk.
@@mikesintegra1 Because they are cheaper to build than a Ford. Thats it.
@@mikesintegra1 usually swaps are still going in the gm vehicles, at least ones i ve seen
@@tommyversetti4598 alot of Japanese drift cars use them as well.
I'm not an expert but it sure sounded like it was detonating off the jump to me!!!!
Leaned her out did you?
not much of a dyno room if you have to walk in and turn it off ! now they can have a bit of a motor wake !
A little slow to the cut off switch...
Is this an advertisement for who not to have you do a build?
Now it's "sad max."
ouch. who pays in this situation
Houston.... we have a problem....over.
It didn’t even sound right before they first started to rev it up😂😂😂😂😂