I think its great.. kids should see what happens if u dont take care, maintain, and try not to abuse ur car.. . Otherwise. They'll do it to their own....
The bellhousing pattern is buick, front distributor, egr valve at rear of intake, gm blue paint predates the 4.3 introduction in black. It looks nothing like a 4,3 Chevy. In 44 yrs as a career mechanic I've replaced or worked on hundreds of gm v6 engines. So yeah,just by looking at them.🙂
Yes the mighty Buick 3.8 will run n run! I had a 80 regal with a one with basically no oil pressure n it ran, squeaked, knocked for 2 weeks and still was a runner when I pulled it and dropped another 3.8 in... Btw the last motor was either running rich or way overly retarded on timing!
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
This very well could be for educational classes.. Don't get your panties in a wad.. If you want a motor, visit your local junk yard or marketplace. Not YT.
It says it's a competition and sounds like for high school kids, I think it's awesome. I wish my highschool did something like this, compete to see who built the best motor with clearly used parts. There's millions of SBC's, I'm sure 3 outta this world (sorry 2 and 1 3.8) isn't gonna hurt anybody. I'd rather see them go like this then watching someone destroy one because of straight ignorance
I'm with you on that, but this seems to be a high school competition. Likely part of an auto shop class. I really wish my school had offered these types of programs. It's sad to see engines destroyed, but in this case I agree with this.
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
@@erandy0240 thats pretty much what i said,i was taught how to build engins that would stay together,i guess its easier to blow them up,the new democratic agenda
@@sbfguy7793 Are you sure? Given your moniker and the emergence of the dreaded omnicorn variant, I would not be so confident. Just kidding. Seriously though, I am a little concerned about tetanus.
@@GnosisMan50 are you sure about stupidity? Maybe thats just your opinion without any reasonable thought put into it. Just so you know lots of things people destroy for studying purposes and to make upgrades because of how the outcome was, so tell me why is this stupid?
@@adam_-adam Hi Adam, you are right. It's just my opinion. Especially when the title of the video is "blowing up engines" and I highly doubt they are doing it for research. Then again, maybe Don Fesler can enlighten us as to what the purpose was to run these engines until they imploded.
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 🤣
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
Somewhere there's an 18 year old kid who has his first G body sitting in the driveway, he's busting his ass to save up money for a small block and a tunnel ram with dual quads, but it seems so far away, yet they're blowing one up for fun, this is too painful to watch
@@mattgraham1983 Yeah, I went to school for a lot of things. It takes real talent to build something right but not to deliberately destroy something. I suppose you are "one of those guys" who likes demolition derby, watches NASCAR-wreck just for the crashes and if you can't figure out how to fix something, start beating it with a hammer.
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
👍 I agree and these engines look like they are from a junkyard so they probably didnt run.... so the schools got them going then run them to fail then probably tear them down and inspect the damaged after..
@@Jeroensgambling yeah I guess so long as you dump it on top of it maybe or just don't start the engine cause once you do it explodes into fire and makes horsepower, who would of thought
@@burdman5620 You can let an engine run rich in relation of fuel. That provides a cooling effect. It's done in the tuning. And afterall it makes sense. Your spraying cold fuel straight into the cilinder that evaporates with air.
@@burdman5620 the fuel is cold before it gets hot, the constant cycling of hot & cold going through the engine gives an average temperature! More fuel drops the average temp because it burns less efficient, less fuel = more efficient explosion causing more heat creates a higher average temp! Air cooled two strokes are best for showing this example of thermal efficiency... Wrong fuel mix and amount by the slightest can mean the difference between running engine and chunks of hot metal grinding apart!
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.
And just think: try something similar with an EV, and the toxic metals from the batteries will leave the whole site uninhabitable for decades! Progress!
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.
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,
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.
In lakeland Florida we used to do this but the engine was still in the car. People would drive the cars in on there own power to blow them up it was called the car blow
