FIRST RUNS With Mullet's NEW 9.3L SMX Big Block, But We Found Metal In The Oil... 

We investigated the entire engine and found nothing… Steve is meeting us in Texas, cross your fingers we don’t have any major issues!!!

Can we all just stop and appreciate the shine coming off of mullet. Sam's out here putting in some work.

Man this is a full circle project. It's not just Steve, lets remember KSR as well!! Mullet always goes straight and thats as big of a challenge as anything. This whole crew who got this unit where it is, from Cleet to Steve to KSR and Pete. Ty Zac Sam, and James being the rock of the gang. This whole bunch that Cleet has got together is just an awesome thing to watch. AND OF COURSE BUENOS DIAS!!!!! Didn't expect all this ... settle down in the comments. Lots of people contributed geez.

Cleet could push a hot wheels down a track and George would be right there hyping him up like it’s never been done before. Never change George.

Tye, Zach and James are the men of the week for pulling this off. Astounding work Gentlemen!

Love how Sam always doing the finishing touch as the car is backing out of the garage, that is real class 😀

Nice to see Pete around, that guy just seems to get the job done within a few passes, even on a fresh build, what a tuning machine!

You can tell Sam truly loves hotrods, he still taking care of them shining em down while they are being backed out 👌

Steve Morris is an absolute legend. I followed him long before Cleetus years ago when Cleet made his first videos. Regardless of the outcome you guys are on par for low 6's or high 5's.

Mr. Sam shining to the last second as you're pulling the car out. That showed his true character wanting to do a great job. What a good man.

Please, please, nobody leave this channel to start their own... Y'all are one of the best teams on YT.👍🇦🇺🇺🇸

I whole heartedly want these beautiful human beings to have the best results possible for Mullet and the rest of the hotrods at TX2K!!!

Keep in mind, if you ever open that filter system up, you’ll need to re prime the dry sump as there’s a giant air pocket in the system

With Steve Morris Horsepower and Peter Harrel Toonin on the keyboard, Mullet will be a rocket. Good Luck at TX2K

Pete just went from real good at doing stuff to the master of doing stuff. Pete's a legend. With him by your side mullets definitely going to the winner circle

LS George: "this is possibly the biggest moment of your entire life" Maddie & Little Ripper: What did he just say?!

I love that Steve cares so much about his customers that he’ll fly to Texas and put new bearings in the engine to be sure it’s right!

I don't give Pete enough credit holy crap is that man a great tuner🎉 Cletus called him a loose cannon that just means he's perfect❤

If Steve gave you the green light to run it, then run it. If he had any concerns, he would tell you NOT to run it and he'd have some rod and main bearings next day air on the way to you. He's that kind of guy. Good luck and be safe.

Cleetus: I am an expert oil pourer Steve: I just use a funnel

I love Sam. He truly cares about the cars always looking clean at all times. Sam is a gem.

Yep whole crew works tirelessly and to the best standards we have all grown to love but a huge Shout out to good ol LS GEORGE for always giving us the lighter side of things, that contagious laugh and his skills behind the camera. Cheers Brother for all you do 🤙🍻❤️🇦🇺🇺🇸

George’s energy in this one is infectious. Such a fun dude!

Hitting refresh on my cleatus channel waiting for the next upload. Hope his weekend goes well

I absolutely love seeing Pete tuning and can’t wait for the Texas videos. I hope you make it down the track and get new PB’s with Mullet.

No problem! Just bring a boatload of oil and filters. You can do an oil change between each run and find out real quick if your metal flake source is increasing or diminishing. Bad bearings only get badder, so if it was leftover trash, it will clear up real quick. Change the oil and send it!

I really got to say is, George you are a true friend and partner/employee and your reaction is so honest and real. I really hope you are going to be around for a long time, everyone at McFarland racing is the dream team!

I’m just starting the video but I watch Steve’s videos as well and I know he won’t allow the engine to be hurt. I’m sure he will be in Texas ready to do a full rebuild in needed. Steve seems like a damn good dude to buy engines from.

Yeah, I'm with Tye that the metal is old debris from the 'mass exodus' as Steve called it. It's amazing how difficult it is to get all the metal shavings out of a block after a catastrophic failure, even with a parts washer. One of my buddies rebuilt a 400 SBC that had spun 3 rod bearings, and even after having the block honed and professionally cleaned, he had to put another set of bearings in it because a bunch of trash from the previous failure went through everything. It sucks but considering the other possibilities, it certainly isn't the worst outcome.

Can’t wait to see Steve’s response of what the cause is. He deff knows his stuff. We’re all learning as you guys work through the pains of building one badass ride so keep it coming!

17:28 can we take a moment to appreciate the sheer size of that main bearing cap?

Tye should just weld a funnel on top the catch can to save Sam some work 😬

2,000 plus hp engine and it all started with some corvette whistles in some exhaust! Talk about a come up ! I’m from Florida I wanna come play

Daily uploads let's go Cleetus :) yall are killing the uploads and always great to watch the team. Man's a success boss and has a beautiful family. What a thing to watch happen from my phone and support with a couple hats

the way y'all turn around your racecars from damaged to operable is amazing compare to when you first started! Props to everybody for making this happen!

My daughter got married on St Patrick's Day, and as father of the bride, I get to give the first toast to the newlyweds. I suggested numerous versions of "Cheers!" from various languages to our guests, and included one very special version as well. Totally true that I did indeed suggest that our guests could enthusiastically say "Hell Yea Brother!" instead of "Cheers!". It was VERY well received by our guests and the wedding party, and the best man changed his speech to include it as well!!

Damn, that 3rd hit dropped my jaw... Y'all built a hell of a race car and Pete is a freakin' wizard on the tune.

i love that mullet backing out and sam still shining it

Mullet must be half the weight of the wagon, keep posting them videos up guys, never got drag racing as a brit but am hooked now.

Definitely look forward to seeing you guys enjoying life. Just was one of those days where everything was fighting me and everyone getting in my way... nice to relax with a Cleetus video

For god sakes, Mullet needs his own funnel.

This is the best comment section I've seen on RU-vid period. It's awesome to see. Every video I go to the comments and it's full of people excited and encouraging. Awesome stuff.

You have built an amazing team. I hope everyone is happy with their situations and you guys continue to create some of the most amazing automotive content on all of RU-vid. Hell Yeah brother

9:02 that transition was slick

Also keep in mind when Steve disassembled, cleaned, remachined, and rebuilt his own engine, it was for his own use and his own pleasure to be run at sick week and he didn’t even get much use on the new rebuild of that engine because he had transmission and u joint problems during sick week. He rebuilt that thing with all new parts and even posted the video of the build process to avoid ignorant comments like we are seeing. Steve built this engine with the intent of using it to win sick week! The idea of giving it to cleetus didn’t even come to fruition until after sick week was over and mullets Engine was headed to Steve to either be rebuilt or traded in. So that whole idea of people thinking Steve reused old bearings or just slapped this engine back together to get rid of it to cleetus is insane and needs to be squashed immediately. If anyone actually watched Steve’s videos they would know that there is a complete up close in depth full length video series of his blown up engine being disassembled, diagnosed, cleaned, repaired, machined, and rebuilt with brand new top shelf parts! Steve designed that engine from scratch and he is meticulous! And anyone who follows him knows that he videos everything mostly so people can learn and enjoy the content, but also to weed out ignorant questions, ignorant comments, and people who think they know everything.

George “i think its safe to say we have never been this prepared.” I agree on that one 🤣

Pray you guys are able to finish out TX2K, worked your butts off to be able to get there.

Just go send er Bud. Steve is hell of an engine builder. What a man to shop up in Texas just to help ya with the engine he built. Customer service is on point . Run it CLEET

I duno about anyone else but I get so happy when I get my notifications about these videos ❤ Love what you guys and girls do it's so cool seeing how far you have come

That's some dedicated crew right there. Those guys have worked some good awe full hours and still have some semblance of a smile on their faces. Gotta love the whole crew even ever upbeat George

6 numbers off your best 330 on 27lbs......crazy brother. This thing is a monster and can't wait to see you guys win tx2k

Dang... To think that Mullet was originally built to be a jetcar! lol Now look at her, so fast, so amazing! But I haven't givin up hope that cleetus will indeed someday be piloting a jet powered vehicle down the track. I love that I have been able to watch this mans progression from spooling up keychain turbos and installing 20 turbo whistles to being an amazing racing team in almost all categories. So amazing! Can't wait to see what Mullet can put down with an SMX!

Hope Tye is right! As per all the comments you guys are honestly the best crew on RU-vid. They way you all work as a team is an inspiration

Here's a kid who basically started 6 years ago on RU-vid.... Made a name for himself, and is rocking some serious numbers and backing..... You and your team are on the track to top fuel madness. Hope you don't go there, but isn't that the dream anymore? Used to be. The world is your oyster Larry and fam. Good stuff. JW. Thx for the content!

Hang in there, bro! I got faith that you guys are going to do great and that motor is going to hold together just fine don't even think about it.

“This is really happening, I cannot believe we made it.” -George. Love it dudes. I know you were talking about making it to the strip for testing but I almost feel like there was a second meaning here. So happy for you guys, seeing Cleetus live out his dream puts a smile on my face.

SMX Pro Mod life!!! Means also things break says Steve. But that’s one of the best built V8s in the world, so if it breaks…them the breaks, and Steve will fix it and off you guys go. Half Top-Fuel power doesn’t come without challenges. This is so awesome guys!!!

Been patiently waiting for this all day. Ready to see this thing rip!!

I have a hard time buying the trash in the engine theory from the prior rod incident. No way Steve would have not thoroughly cleaned the block thoroughly before reassembly. The other factor is that you are not reusing any of the oil system that the engine previously used where metal might have possibly hidden out. Lastly the engine ran fine during its dyno runs at Fuetech and at Sick Week prior to its tranny issues. Hopefully Steve will figure it out in TX. Hats off to everybody for noticing the issue right away and doing the responsible thing by pulling all the bearings.

Good ole Shine it up Sam still polishing Mullet as he backs out the door!

Need to start prepping that driveway for test hits to the 330

Excited to see what mullet will do at tx2k with that new SMX properly tuned and turned up! Pete is an animal at the tuning aspect of things.

It's just crazy they want to build homes so so close to your racetrack. I live exactly 6.5 miles (12 minutes) from East Bay Race Way and love hearing those bald eagle v8s screaming! But i can hear them clearly, why those folk what to try and build homes next to the track is crazy.

It good to see you finally have a clear view to see if the motor is on its way out prior to it actually going

crazy how we went to crusty filthy ruby to freaking all 20 cars in the fleet shining like the sun lol

I am so happy that this time, you tore some of it down and checked instead of just going around and running again. After seeing Steve's video on the tear down of that engine, what you are seeing is not surprising to me. You should be fine, "What could possibly go wrong?"

Zachs face when he said "okay" lol. Poor guy is feeling the pressure. Loving the vibe of the team at the moment, hoping it stays together

The smx sounds great at idle, such a deep sound

It's those junk as oil pumps your using.. Rob dahm had two brand new ones fail as well as countless complaints online.. I'm surprised they didn't fix it yet but with all the failures still happening they obviously didn't .. almost guaranteed thats your problem if Steve says the bearings are fine after dropping the pan...

Just personally with our brad hemis running dry sump through a screen, we often find shavings in our oil, its never too concerning and for us just one of those race car things, if you start seeing chunks that'd be more concerning. Cant wait to see it at tx2k

Your team is awesome!!! Steve Morris is awesome!!! Mullet is awesome!!! Things will work themselves out, you guys got this!!!!!

12:55 hearing those turbos spool as he does a burnout. You gotta love it.

Compared to the radiator Steve and Tom ran I’m going to say bigger is needed 😂

I can’t wait to see what mullet can do this year

Rumor has it, Pete is real good at doin' stuff.

Wow the sound of that SMX is awesome. You can tell the difference in the sound between the SM and the SMX🔥🇺🇸 You got to keep that beast in the ELCO 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Pumped to see what Mullet will do! Good Luck in Texas Guys!

Cleetus, the steering column is moving back toward you about 1/4 inch under acceleration. Check the steering column shaft and universal joints.

Great to see Pete working with you …… top notch tuner

Rooting for you Cleetus. I can tell you're really nervous which I can't blame you with a engine like that. But you have some incredible guys & knowledge in your corner. Mullet is gonna kick some ahh 👍

Soooo many advantages to dry sump. Priming, circulation, pumping old oil out, flushing the system, being able to easily monitor engine health by checking the scavenge filter.

9.3 Litres of FREEDOM brother!!! Awesome seeing Mullet roll around with a dang SMX!

George is just awesome behind a camera, let’sss go brothers !!!!

The shoutout to Maddie did it for me, Cleeter knows what’s important in life.

Am I the only one that’s constantly checking cleet’s RU-vid page for the new video

So proud of you boys you have come along ways from old Ruby ! Keeep on keeping on!!!

Hi, Please look at 13:33 till 13:37 in the video. The steeringweel has allot of play, up and down! Please Check this for your safty!!! Great new motor, a beast 👌

Good luck fellas. Today was a rainout, so hope the best for Sat and Sunday. The cold front blew in last night. It's been in the 50's all day. No idea what the track will be like.

Georges energy in this is amazing. Love the commentary

Moral of the story, when rebuilding a engine with any kind of breakage and metal shavings, clean, clean and clean again, anyone, even the best of the builders can miss it. It’s just part of the game.

Can’t wait to hear the times Mullet puts out! Nice job to all your guys for pulling this off!

this race team is amazing. Everyone on this team does great work. Keep it up guys.

Kevin, Pete, Steve, all the guys at the shop, thank you guys for helping Cleeter build one hell of a hot rod. And Cleet, thanks for showing us all the goods and the bads. 👍🇺🇸🦅

Oh my! My wallet hurts when I saw sparkling oil! Hope everything is ok and you guys can make solid passes with the SMX

Sam had mullet shining like crazy backing out of the shop

Can't wait to see this car at full blast. It will surely be the fastest ever for Cleetus and the team. Loads of fun to watch.

Let’s go Mullet and the SMX

Every single engine build I've ever done, and every single new engine I've purchased, car/truck/small/tractor engines. All the same. Little bit of debris in the filter after run-in. I am meticulous about cleaning my engines during builds. I went in with gun cleaning brushes and cleared out all the oil passages on my last tractor engine build. Still a little bit of trash in the filter. Don't know where it always comes from, but it's always there. I just do a couple heat cycles now that I know this, drop the oil and change it right away after a new build. On something like this that had a catastrophic failure at one point, I'm not surprised you found some debris that worked itself loose. Keep an eye on it and if it keeps making more I'd be worried. I'd be surprised if that happened after you pulled all the caps and found nothing though. My guess is that you keep running it and it clears out and never comes back.

I'm thoroughly excited. I really hope the track at tx2k can hold the ol boy down to a low 6

That SMX drinks more than my dad who never says he loves me