Blowing up engines

I feel like I’ve just witnessed several murders

The true geniuses were the ones running the water pump and recirculating it. 👏🏻👏🏻

I think this falls into the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" category

The first one sounded like it had a dead cylinder. That little 3.8 buick hung in there like a champ fire and all. Way better than I thought it would.

Yep. 'Murica. My dad was a mechanic, and used to say: Any child can destroy and smash things, you want to learn to make and fix things first.

When machines take over they will remember this

As vice grip garage would say ,giving her all the onions. Lol lol

Good synthetic oil and able to keep them cool with air circulation. Then engines would have lasted a lot longer. Heat killed these. I personally have ran a SBC 350 wide open for a long time at a mud bog. Had twin fans and 4 core radiator with electric water pump. Ran synthetic racing oil

who has that amount of time in their lives to go and watch this and just sit there

Honestly this is just kinda sad... Any motor can be given a second chance.

The 3.8 buick was in Australian holdens from 1989 -2003 . Great engine i had over 800k on the clock before it stopped reading. Went for years after too .

Since most of these are from high schools, my assumption is that the students pull apart the engines to learn of failure points. Or maybe it's something to do on a Friday night. I don't know

I never really understood destroying good machinery for entertainment. You may as well build a fire with all the money you spent on building it

That was a keeper. That motor will get you home!

sad thing is what killed em is overheating! would have lasted much longer

Sounds like my neighbor warming his truck up at 3am for work.

6:21 reminds me of the race night . Come on 53 more laps to go . I had an olds455 .

The last one was the best when it windowed the block, awesome!

It's been over 3 years and they claim the slant 6 is still running strong.

I'd like to see someone bring a volvo redblock to one of these.

Pretty much the most boring engine destruction video you can find anywhere in the universe.

This is a compilation of "mechanical operas " 1: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf soprano sings " Ode to the Joy "( final movement of 9th Symphony of Beethoven), the conductor was Wilheim Fürtwängler 2: Maria Callas sings " la Norma " from Bellini with Tullio Seraphin conductor 3: Callas: Requiem for a V8 Engine 🤣

Whooping and cheering at the destruction of a good engine. I don't get it. Where's the fun in that?

the last engine was the best, the bottom of the block got a hole blasted in it by what i think was the piston rod. Amazing.

Not really an endurance test when your not running it like it would be ran in a vehicle wheres the coolant at and no fan, course it's gonna blow lol

Should have kept them cool with a radiator or something and then see how long they last being redlined. Fun video other than that though.

I'm doing my state competition for hvac through skillsusa and it was cool to see another tech field doing there tests

"Garage 54" gots some funny engine blow ups!

This hurts me inside

The buick 3.8 had to have stopped because the fire destroyed plug wires, id say it internally survived.

best engine blow up day ive been to was a aussie 265 inline hemi six it blew the front of the block apart but it wouldnt stop going

We're giving her all she can take Captain. 😆

Truly ingenious

Heartbreaking. That first one would have been awesome in my minivan.

people getting mad about killing some clapped out 350s lmao the only things worth a damn on them are the intake/carbs so might as well just full send the bottom end to valhalla

That 3.8 Buick V6 lasted quite a long time!

Pretty sure the last guy didn't need an air filter 🤣

I'd of never known this was a thing unless it randomly appeared on my homepage.

Valve float kept the first one running a long time

What kind of a school teaches you to destroy rather then repair? School needs to lose funding

I would go watch this every weekend

I'm giving her all she's got Captain.

Best use of 305 Chevrolet I can think of.

The fuel has still a cooling feature, but when that block is red hot it's game over.

That last engine looked pretty nice

9:31 satisfying rod through the pan with a m1 grand sound ping

That engines last final moments look like it was on life support

She gave it hell that first engine

Why in the hell, dude there's so many gear heads that woulda loved to have had these engines

Wow, the entertainment this content brings

idk why they do it. but i love it

These poor engines :(

A old VW bug engine would crush the competition, air cooling go BRRRRRRRR

Damn.. that old ford put in some work

I would like to have seen a runaway Detroit blow up

What kind of test is this ?......Wow a water cooled engine with no water burns up....No kidding !

This is like watching paint dry.

you're supposed to hit it with nitrous for the spectacular grenade

Basically over heated.

2 men enter, one man leaves.

I know the quickest way to blow up an engine. Hold the throttle wide open while it's running and introduce some loose nuts and bolts. That will make things go very quickly. We do that with the engine drained of coolant and oil. Less mess when things gernade.

That old 4.3 v6 was cool. I have a boat with the same engine

"One day ima get me sum wheels"....

To that next motor runs for days.... MARATHON...

wife comes home from the store and says 'something wrong with the car honey'

What a totally useless event, must be the USA only.

Would have liked to see this with a radiator.

Yup, that's real talent there. Did you have to go to school for that? Real friggin' smart. (Any hole can blow up an engine)

When someone says, can I borrow your truck this weekend, this is what they do.

I have witnessed a Caterpillar engine idling away... once they drop the oil plug the timer begins It did not last 90 seconds lol

And he even has his safety glasses on 😂

If someone was seriously competing in this competition, they would’ve brought one of the old inline sixes from GM, dodge or Ford.

A total waste of God-given resources. Values have changed considerably since I helped rebuild a WW2 Harley dispatch bike in high school, in England. We brought it back to life, you killed them ! Congratulations

with coolant, these would have lived waaay longer... thank you for the rad delete!!

5:48 that’s why you don’t stand by the cage

Even with the flames hold her to tha Tin!!!!🤘🎊🎊🎊 🔥 🔥 🔥

Hot dang all those people in the background came out to watch a engine

You proved that an engine with no coolant will seize.....yup

Should have people also run a scatter shield on the dampener pulley

I drove a 7•5 ton 2006 merc that run for 5 years no stop up and down the motorway at full revs, never a problem, but at least that had cool air getting to it, these with no air flow don't stand a chance as we see,

Yall see the valve covers change color?

I wanna see more

over heating and seizing engine*. if my high school was like this i would have gone….

That was a fun vid!! .makes me want an engine blowing up cage in the back yard.....

Oddly satisfying 😌

That first one was a very unhappy engine from the start

If these were Honda motors the video would be a lot longer.

If you drain the oil from crankcase it will have less internal friction

With out any nitrous or boost all they will do is mostly seize up. Not much of a show but I'd still go to one of these.

Does this make anyone else sad? Motors are so good to us, why abuse them like this?..

I wish this ws a class at my high-school

Are they making them run like crap to keep the rpms down so they last longer?

Are they blurring it out??? Omg, I can't watch this! Lol

It’s all fun and games until someone enters with a Detroit diesel and let’s it run away for an hour

When you build an head with exhaust ports next to each other like this too much heat builds up in that area and will usually be the cause of failure in longevity tests.

Hey were the slick 50 guy when you need him! 😛😂

It's another "Let's see how much petrol we can waste for absolutely no reason at all" !!!!!!

For the past 2 years at our local demolition derby they have a blow up car. They drain the oil and put a brick on the throttle. They take bets on the time and whoever is closest wins. The first year the car blew up with oil in it, going through the parade with the other derby cars.

New valves and rings , probably work good as new

The English refer to it as 'Giving it some Beans'