TEARING APART MY 57 CHEVY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2020
- Today at Welder Up, my son Kash, his buddy Anthony, and myself are removing the engine from my 57’ Chevy. Once we removed the cylinder heads, I noticed some broken pistons, so we decided the project of the day was to see what we could do it fix it. How much HP would you put back in it for a daily driver?
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- Steve
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The famous 57..bet its more of an animal now... I remember watching episodes with kash & chase when they where little kicking barbers ass tearing apart & making go carts.... & now they have grown so much to be working side by side with u.. Awesome man... God bless u & ur 2 mini Steve's....
Steve, my son is an LS nutcase. He's wanting to put one on his Huski riding mower! Anyway, we watched the show from day one, so we saw the episode with the '57. He actually said that he wondered how long the LS III would last with the turbo with the compression, and the ring gap. Now I owe him a dollar...
Ring gaps weren't opened up for boost. But better pistons will help along with the proper gap.
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Hi Steve, I love your 57 I love your LS three I have an LS three in my vet. I built it to a 383 stroker 740 hp 680 torque I love all your videos brother you have a good day.
Very cool! Thanks Danny, appreciate it.
I miss the TV show thanks for making this channel.
Thanks for watching!
I friggen love this car you gotta do it justice by putting a bigger wheel and tire package on it. I absolutely love the look you did and the fact that it can be a daily driver
Can hardly wait to see the finish👍
Should run nice when its done! ‘57, still one of my favorites.
Love watching the teardown and diagnostics..
Only have 2 ls motors in my parts pile. Going to keep stocking them up.
Keep them coming Steve a lot of us love LS videos!! Thanks man I love it
This man is honest. Got to respect that. Great video thanks God bless 👍
Thanks for the awesome video man, you’ve inspired me to look at getting into the car industry through your TH-cam and your tv show. Not sure if I will ever manage to open up a small shop, but a man can dream right???
Looking forward to the next video, should be interesting to see how you rebuild that 6.2L 😎👍👍
Great content thank you for sharing
I see that you got your Diesel Brothers beard going on. Hope that when this "virus" is over, you & the guys from Sparks Motors can get together for another grudge race.
Best piece of advice you could have possibly given.
Leave well enough alone.
Most people can’t afford to f around and blow stuff up.
It takes experience and wisdom to say such things. Must be age speaking. 👊 hope you visit and meet you someday Steve Darnell! Cheers.
Steve you should wear a microphone , sounds is very low.
And Better Lighting PLEASE ?? God Bless 🤗🤗🤗🤗
I agree
Sounds like you need bigger gaps on the piston rings to handle more heat on the ring expansion... Good luck with the rebuild and stay safe team 🤙
Looks like timing problem too , there is a lot to do to get it right but you will take care be safe Steve can't wait to hear it run
In the middle of season three of the welder up marathon
Muy bueno Steve, sos un grande, felicitaciones. Saludos desde Argentina, Ariel
Keep em comin bro, love in what you guys in weld er up
Well shoot. There goes my day. I planned on growing up to be just like you! Ha! Enjoyed you show, thanks for posting!
Good video. I always enjoyed your show. Thanks for sharing
You keep building ill keep watching lol
When you play hard you will need to replace thangs, boy is it a lot of fun, keep having fun.
Love the LS content!
What a badass ride. I’ve got an LS3 I’ll be swapping into my trans am shortly, with Just a big cam.
It's a strong platform to play around with mate it's always the little things crapping out that make for big rebuilds great fun anyway get her built give her hell cheers bro
All things considered, not making modifications for the turbo set-up the motor held up pretty good. Thanks for showing the results of that .
I love your 57 there Steve same year I was born yet the only one now I got a bunch of rat rods in my mighty buckeyes I've had for 30 years 4 27
Awesome video
Nice car great vid👍
Steve if you separate the inter-cooler and the Rad you will stop them from transferring heat to each other and it will run cooler too ..love the 57
The only issue you had was ring gap, the compression and cam were not the problem!
agreed. ring gap issue. too much heat, rings closed up/butted and busted the piston.
I was curious of the same thing.... but what do I know I just a 3x2 on my 57!
Absolutely right! With a .028-.030 ring gap that engine would have been fine to 800-900hp. Throw some 110 and meth injection and it would have lived a long happy life.
Ring gap is a common problem especially with junkyard LS engines and cheap turbo kits, people just don't take the time and effort to widen the gap. There's another guy here on TH-cam that can't keep a turbo LS together because because he don't gap the rings!!
Steve you Rock! I wish I could wrk on motors and build like you .your art is bad ass and I like the way you use rusty junk in your builds. Keep up the good wrk. Eric in Texas
Thanks Eric!
Great video 👍👍🇨🇱
Definitely ring gap. Stock bottom end good to over 1000 hp. The tune and ring gap for the win !
The lesson here is there is always a trade-off and no free lunch when perusing huge power gains in a stock application.
Good video
Looks like a nice case of det damage, lucky to have caught it before it completely dropped a piston. Are they stock cast pistons?
Its guna be cooler and faster welderup baby
Thanks Steve for it's so true that's what I'm doing I'm building a old Ford that it's my hotrod and not my daily driver its 500 hp it's my toy enjoy your 57 that's a great hotrod
Genio saludos desde Argentina buenos Aires gran profesión tenes
Position tops popping on the LS is common even without boost. Would look at cryo treatment for all moving internals could possibly help with heat issues.
factory flat top pistons work it's not the compression it's the ring gap you must gap the rings in order for heat expansion if not they have the factory gapped rings they will expand and crack the pistons like you have done. I learned the hard way too the first LS I tossed boosted I got it all together and in the car then remembered to gap the rings but ran it anyway lol. you gotta gap the rings plus every ring manufacture has different ring gap specs for the type of boost you plan on running some say 28 thou top and bottom ring.
Thanks, appreciate it
Love that car, always have..
Nice 57 👍👍
The compression ratio really doesnt have anything to do with it, especially if it's on E85. Now if it's on pump gas then yes lower it. I'm guessing you cracked the top and 2nd ring land on the number 7 cylinder. I've got a ls3 2010 camaro with a single turbo and just did exactly that. What I figured out when I was replacing the #7 cylinder piston is the ring gap on the ls3 is ridiculously tight from the factory like 0.015 so what happens especially out here in vegas I live out here as well, is with boost the pistons get hot enough that the rings expand and they butt and when that happens it literally tries to tear the top of the piston off. So all I did was open the ring gap up to 25 thou and I've been good to go since. Hell I did some pills last night at around 16psi zero issues.
I watched all 4 seasons of your Vegas Rat Rods one of the best shows, why the F*CK is it now back on. I'm glad you have the TH-cam channel.
We are not in production at this time. Depends on the channels and if they decide to show the re-runs. We are only on You Tube for now but will keep you posted if things change. Thanks for watching,
I thought you sold that casino sign? Lol.. can you tell I watch every show that's available to watch in the UK 😂
Awesome information.. Really enjoy these TH-cam shows. Thanks. As a broadcast production guy I ask... please use a microphone. Your vocals are so low compared to all other audio... very distracting.
You need Jeremy from fasterproms to tune it asap watch his vids
Kool more kool video ty
The greatest engine ever my number one engine of all ls 💯👍💪
When too much is too much it's just too damn much LOL that's a badass whip man you and Justin did an awesome build bro that's one of my favorite Motors man and a 1969 Camaro has always been a dream but I tell you what something about that Cadillac CTS-V man I can't wait to see the rest of this build bro because it's your daily driver and I know you going to still be pushing some badass horsepower👍👍👍👊👊👊👊
Those LS motors breathe well but an after market old school 400 small block with a smartly ported set of heads will do the job sixties style.
Ring gap is a common issue when boosting these engines.
Ls, Cummins, and 2JZ or hands down the best motors in the world period. There following is the biggest and says it all.
Professor Steve....
MAKE SURE YOU DO A SICK VID ROLLIN ONCE ITS DONE 👊
so you going to a follow up on this right............RIGHT STEVE.......hahahaha
My question is what fuel, how much timing and how much boost? The cylinder pressure was just too much ontop of the stock ring gapped rings...
hey steve what would be a good daily driver diesel and what trans would you match it with, towing a 8000lbs boat every other weekend
This is not a hardtop, its a sedan, the hardtop has no post, just saying!...I love your 57 steve, i to have a 210 sedan im restoring!
I don’t know nothing about engines but after reading the comments all I want to say is Ring Gap. #ArmChairMrchanic’sKnowEverythingJustAsk
Is that evel knievel rocket in background authentic?
yes!
hey guys with the pistons falling apart wot wos the state of the valve seats and heads that cars a beast like the rest in your stable
I love your 57 chevy Steve
Thanks Chris, It's my daily driver. Many ask when I am going to paint it! LOL
Steve I have loved it since I seen it and I have two 57's I am doing and thinking of taking alot of your advice from your videos and show vegas rat rods
I also love the 57 wagon you did a while back
Look up Jackson Steven's turbo charged 1,113 hp. Destroked LS Nasty !!! 9000 rpm motor 😜. You will find all the build specs there
You should make more videos of you build cars would love to see that just like the show you had Bad A$$
Can you not double up the head gaskets to run a turbo on this engine ?
Might want to do a .030 ring gap. That is why the pistons cracked.
Ever going to build a 78-79 f150?
Nice
One more comment. Covid beard?
Dude, its adding years on!
Steve you ever come across any 58 Plymouth fury’s or savoys on your hunts. I’ve been looking to do a Christine clone forever but they are impossible to find
They are hard to find. It must be that everyone else wants to recreate Christine. I'll keep an eye out.
Best car rsrsrs
Now give that 57 justice and give it a nice paint job🤘😎
LOL
@@WelderUpVegas come on Steve..that 57 is begging to be made😉
Paint are you kidding?! Paint it and it’s just like any other 57! This is hands down the baddest 57 on the planet! I would kill for this car! Steve you’re a bad ass!
this is the first time i ever seen you work on a gas engine
Awsome
Steve which Chevy do u like better the HAUNTED 55 OR the OG Supercharged 57??
That is a hard call. I drive both of them as daily drivers. Don't think I could choose one over the other.
@@WelderUpVegas honestly though I dont think I could ither I would definitely Drive them both Consistently 🤘🤘
order up a texas speed engine they build awesome ls engines
Good food for though Steve some times adding bolt on parts without the right knowledge cost lije the old farm filter commercial You can pay me now Air you can pay me later, good video
Need to gap them rings, and you can run higher compression if you run E85 and you can add meth injection and detonation won’t be an issue but when your pistons cracking like that is your ring gap closing and snapping the pistons , I run 28 and 30 and I shove 50 pounds through my small block
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See the video where one was built and ran 11,000 rpms? Crazy!
I love watchin your videos man but this one was hard to watch, but only because the audio was way quieter than usual
I like your show. I am looking for a 1947 Oldsmobile Straight 8 Engine. Running or not running. Thank you have a great day.
Why don't you go e85? Compression and turbo is king (look at coyote engines). Probably had to much timing in it.
Let me know when your ready and I'll come to town. would be some good content for both of our channels... oh and thanks again for all the view$.
Not enough ring gap
Steve I wish you was my neighbor
Part 1of 10 will work, whatever it takes!
I just hope the kids over at power block didn't see it ! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😆Ooooops
Gap those rings!
Personaly i would say high compression and a bit lean causing excess heat melting the piston face
Paul Yarlett looks like ring gap might have been a little tight also being that it only broke the ring land on the piston
@@lukejacob3340 Correct, it was 100% the factory NA ring gap.
If the ring gap has closed is this not due to thermal expansion due to to mutch heat as if it was N A not boosted surly it would not of happened.
And will you settle and argument for me,,,what year was the PEPCON factory explosion in Vegas. Wasn't it in may 1988.
Yes it was, you won the argument. May 4th 1988
@@WelderUpVegas thought it was,,he owes me a pint now..thanks!!
Gonna have more power?
It’s all in the tune my friend it’s all in the tune.
Grüße aus Hamburg Ger