I Just Ruined Mullet's $50,000 Engine... 

You know it cleet!!!

I'm sure its not everyone but I waited forever for my raycon impact earbuds. Didnt last 2 days. Love ya Cleet but raycon isnt more then a paying sponsor in my opinion.

Another day another cleeter video

Love yall brothers.

Where's rocky? Hopefully getting that spare 540 big block

Exactly what popped into my head hell cleetus was rethinking all his decisions in life just riding with him on the test drive of the truck

Yes exactly and they were telling him to lift!

Me too!!!!

😂 that smile on his face in the marauder when they all got nervous 😅

@apex9177 it's not a limiter, it's more of a suggestion box.. if the valves aren't floating, is it really a burnout?

Insane mechanic stills too.

I mean when you charge $50,000-$80,000 for an engine i would expect expert customer service lol

what you guys put steves engines through is absolute torture! and they still seem to work! the problems are not because of steves engine designs, but are brought on because you guys are like that rotten kid in grade 5 that just beats the living hell out of his toys with hammers and rocks just to see if he can break stuff! well you guys are trying but that SMX is a tough piece of kit indeed!! Steve has created a well built tougher than nails engine! well done steve!! 👍👍👏👏👏👏👍👍

​@@teamcarp1 The SMX is way more than $80k

Incredible engine, massive respect to Steve for creating something that not only refuses to give up but still makes power despite being seriously broken. Cleet needs to step up his maintenance game, anything over 2000 hp needs a teardown after every event to catch this kind of stuff. For the channel, for his wallet, and for us viewers that want to see him succeed.

Me to

i'm honestly a little upset with Cleetus at the end... poor sportsmanship like conduct and bashing a guy who drove from his home/shop to come fix an engine he sold you... you're never going to get the same customer service from Texas Speed... edit: Steve drove 338 miles to fix the engine.... now if that's not customer service then idk what is... Texas Speed isn't gonna do that just my $0.02

@@davidpugh8772for a scratch and dent previously exploded engine….not a good look for ol cleeter… Steve is top notch

@@davidpugh8772 I really hope he sees the comments and sees that he made a mistake and addresses it

exactly

This is Garrett Mitchell in a nutshell.

100%

All of this by people who probably don't maintain damn near a single thing they own 🤷🏼‍♂️

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​@@johnqpublic2718 Clearly not completely watching the videos. Just scanning through.

@@mjay6245 there's also 2x speed for ADHD brains like me

Yep, he sees a smudge and must polish. It's like beavers and running water.

nervous energy gotta go somewhere.

The look of absolute disappointment on his face when he sees those main caps. That's his baby, despite not being in his car. He's devastated this happened to Cleet.

I love that he is so willing to learn about his own creation and learn from every failure and almost always improves. I have no doubt this motor will be coming back at some point

This 100% gotta run shielded cable

It was a stereo problem with older ignition systems.

Quality cable for sensitive Signal wires

Absolutely! Also make sure the drain wire is connected on only one side like you said otherwise you can end up with a ground loop. I deal with issues like this from EMI that VFDs generate. It will cause all kinds of crazy readings on speed sensors because they are looking for a rising and/or falling edge so any noise is assumed to be a pulse.

Agreed, all of those low voltage hall effect sensors need to be shielded because the smallest amount of noise is huge relative to the signal strength.

💯 😊

Have to agree, maybe didn't realise how it came across, but the engine failure was 100% his fault.

Yup. Under perfect conditions at that level of drag & drive 50 full passes and 1,000 street miles rebuild is part of regular maintenance. It's not a 200k mile program lol. They did a ton of passes in practice with massive amounts of mistakes. Definitely wasn't aluminum vs iron block. He forgets how much faster and harder he's pushing this setup vs old. Did he even go 6s on the only setup? His new Camaro will be finished soon. He should've waited to announce Camaro will be 6s and Mullet reverts back to 7s. Now that I think of it. He did already say it in a previous video so no need to make it sound so dramatic.

Let's not forget Cleetus did a burnout in Mullet as well, and all they thought of it was ruining the tires. I'm sorry but they're really hard on these cars that people would pour their heart and souls into, and they just seem to break everything. It can't be the cars. Every race car they have they have to overbuild and still they destroy engines and transmissions. It may speak to many things about how they treat their cars, but primarily must include a maintenance program several levels more serious than what they do. It sure doesn't help that they do 100 other things month to month,. You can't just turn on race mode and jump back into 7 and 6-sec cars and try to win events.

Not to mention the massive discount he got on it, as it was literally out of Steve’s personal car. Race engines need maintenance, not just fresh oil

Compared to what Steve did to the block when he ran that motor and all the pistons and rods turned into aluminum gravel and the inside of the block looked like a bomb had gone off. It's a miracle that he fixed it up and it has performed like it has!

​@TheBibliofilus All he did was try new con rods and they were too weak and they exploded under load.

Its a metal block that costed 10k plus usd it better be durable.

@@GoldAk47 my brother in christ, the SMX is probably closer to $60k to $70k if he bought a brand new one from Steve Morris. this was a scratch and dent special. if he only paid $10k for it, it would be a bargain

@@SpeedyManCharles actually, Cleet made a deal with Steve for this block, getting an undisclosed cut in return for helping Steve's channel get to 100k subscribers, IIRC. That $10k might not actually be all that far off of what he actually paid for it

On coopers channel a few months ago Cleetus said that his only real issue was that his engine and trans combo kicked him out of his old classes due to rule changes. The smx is a great platform but mullets chassis cant keep up and the smx cant make enough power reliably to overcome the chassis problems. Mullet is maxed out and he needs to go faster to be competitive in his current classes so he's building eagle to take mullets spot as the main drag car.

@@aidenchristiansen5776 it is making enough power but it is not able to put the power down to go faster because of the way the suspension is set up and also the weight of the car in general adding more power just makes it spin

@kylegoes8119 true , was a mistake on my part. Thanks for the clarification

Cant wait for eagle to take his spot tho ❤

The new car isn't even a DnD car, I'm not sure what it is even for. Also, there is nothing wrong with the SMX, it won't be any different whether he runs a pro line or some other pro mod type power, it will still break if mistreated the same way. The big difference is pro line or whoever isn't going to jump in a truck or plane and fly over when you break it. I see the new car collecting dust for much of its future if they don't bother with maintaining it.

pete seen it too

[sprays brake clean into intake] Yeah and?

And Cleet then throws Steve under the bus. Despite everything being down to lack of maintenance, negligence and pure abuse.

Definitely bitched about the motor didn't he!

​@steveshortt90 Even though his old brodix block was blowing up at 50-60% of the hp the SMX can take 24/7. That was a stupid take by him and a huge insult to Steve.

Yeah I dont blame the SMX one bit

I haven't even finished the video, but I can't fathom why you would run that hurt engine. Content is the only thing I can think of.

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He's not getting rid of the smx because it keeps breaking due to neglect. The problem is with mullets chassis and suspension, it cant put down the power the smx makes. Not to mention that the smx forced him in to a higher class and mullet just isn't competitive in that class. He needs a different engine to match what the chassis is capable of because atm the smx is too much for mullet to handle.

@@aidenchristiansen5776 U sure a smaller, bur still larger than 427 engine would allow him into a different class? I thought once you go big block, you're in the big boy classes regardless of engine size

@Anderson_999 I'm not familiar with the specific rules, I just remember Garrett talking about it on coopers channel and on this channel before specifically about the smx.

@@Anderson_999 I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the billet engine.

Nah his video last night was basically telling them to send it, he predicted a 6.90 on 7

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​@@TheLazyGeistwasn't that pete? I thought pete was helping tune it, Steve just built the engine

@@TheLazyGeist Wasn't it Pete? x2

@@TheLazyGeist Wrong!

really.....

​@@Nismo-gy3wzyeah. Did you not watch the video? This is 100% on Garrett. Having no second gear and sending it hard, isn't exactly easy on any race motor.

He was agreeing​, not questioning.

​@@jeffhutchison3480looks to me cleetus crashed this motor just in time for his new and faster ride. Coincidence? Why would you rerun your vehicle when it went a 7 while down a cylinder He blew it up on purpose

The disappointment and frustration on his face when he saw those main caps was intense. There's something else going on with mullet that's hurting the engine, or just Garrett not doing what he needs to to make sure it survives.

@@onefastgmc Plenty of Steve’s engines out there running strong. This is on Garrett and his team.

Yeah a real lack of maturity with the "we didn't do anything to maintain this, then beat on it with 7 cylinders, now it blew up, so it's time for a change because we should win every event"

texas speed found that out. pete harrel is in the process of finding it out It is good to get in business with garret initially, but their mentality in the shop as far as being able to maintain that level of drive train is..... far below the requirement.

Yup. His team isn't a race team. It's a bunch of good guys doing multiple different projects and their own stuff thrown in. Since cleet isn't a "pro" racer type, his shop can't survive on that type of content

Why are you trying to flog a dead dog the sm engines aren't serving the purpose and are made of toffee. Plenty of other engine builders that can build a big power and reliable engine.

@@FouldsMouldsLtduntil Cleet gets of hold of them 😆 then they all blow up

Agree I hope he does to

​@@FouldsMouldsLtd Or maybe the customers of other engine builders don't rev their shit to a bajillion rpm and actually maintain them properly? Seems to be the first one with broken main caps 🤔 When you run shit at 120% of its potential stuff breaks.

Dude an SMX is going in the 69 camaro for Sure

He really is

You act like he had much of a choice when the most famous car with a specialized engine for a extremely small portion of drag racing that you bet everything you have on repeatedly fails it don’t matter if you’re on your honey moon you make dust immediately

​@@54raceman Steve doesn't have to do anything. Just cause its Cleetus car doesn't matter at all. He's just a stand up guy. There are way more famous cars/individuals in the drag racing community running other top of the line engines and those companies wouldn't have done what Steve did. They'd say thats racing. Pull it out and send it in for a refresh

@@54raceman You're confused if you think Steve has to answer to Cleet .

⁠@@54racemanUr lost buddy 😂😂😂😂 Damn

Mentality comes down to too many dollars and not enough scense....

@@TheScottib1 Yeah he is on the "blame everyone else for everything" tour again.

Lol 😂 why do you care so much what he does with his cars??? Are ypu paying for the new engine? You think Steve really cares all that much when someone blows up one of his engines? He just gets to sell them a rebuild or new one, it's called job security. Lol it cracks me up that you guys act as if Cleet is running and blowing up their engine. And when you guys build a car that can complete with Cleet, you will start to understand how often things break, even right after they were just tested and maintained.... lol 😂

@@TheMiraldi Alot of us are tired of him blaming everyone else for the stuff blowing up when we have video evidence of him being the cause. Eveyone is aware that steve told him to just drive it one 7. The problem is how the engine ended up in that state. And in a way yes i am paying for everything he does thru my watching the videos and buying the merch. Does he have to listen to me? No. But i do have the right to express my opinion. Free country and all that shit.

I lost it when he said that 🤣

That was hilarious

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Exactly, if anyone is to blame it's Cleetus' and his team

Agree , entertainment is one thing but maybe hire a behind the scenes manager, for fleet management preventative maintenance someone really OCD , behind the scenes so he is not obligated to anything social media

I'm starting to wonder if engine builders will find it worth the potential trouble getting involved with this channel??? It's one thing to push a motor to It's limits but there's a point where blowing one up for clicks may not be a good business decision for a motor builder??? Im thinking the day is coming where they are going to have to have an in house builder/tuner...

@@chrisjohnson4666 Given Cleet's propensity for breaking stuff, seeing things actually last as long as they do is free marketing, really. I mean, the fact that an SMX can cruise around on 7 cylinders and two broken main caps and only complain slightly when running full send down the drag strip... Also the fact that this is the first time someone managed to break Steve Morris' billet main caps...

That was originally Steve's personal engine that had thrown a rod through the side of the block and been rewelded. The fact that it's held together this long with the abuse it's seen is a testament to just how well engineered and built these engines are.

Yep. We can all speculate, but cleeter is hard on equipment.. Doesn't matter too much when the video pays for it afterwards I guess.. Not hating at all, I love watching it!

It’d be easy to dog Garrett when a Brett LaSala’s stock block Ford keeps waxing him in events… because, you know, it’s a Ford. But the real difference between the two is Brett is taking apart the car after major events. Checking for cracked welds and parts wear. Rebuilding and inspecting the engine every year. Constantly combing through data from 29-30 sensors monitoring the chassis, shocks, trans, turbos, engine, etc. Garrett and his guys just don’t have that kind of time to commit to one single car

Does anyone know what the max amount of runs is on the smx 🤔

@@anthonygibbo1881 No one knows exactly, but top fuel dragsters are tearing their engines apart after every pass.. This is a motor making 3k hp in a heavy ass car, and they wouldn't of even known if the main cap was broke if steven didn't come..

There is a forum thread somewhere where with all the SMX failure rates on drag and drive events, most are valve/lifter issues destroying the engines. Some D&D people switch back to Brodix or just BB builds, cheaper than SMXs every event. It’s fairly high tbh.

@@MidnightMotion_Racing Fair enough! Im not that well educated on it TBH. Thanks for sharing!

Yup, needs a top fuel maintenance approach for those hemi style engines 👌

I know absolutely nothing about what it takes to run a team, drive one of these machines, or work on them. Would it be cost effective for him to just replace engines instead of chasing the program for his maintenance? If the title is true, I would imagine a maintenance regiment and more staff would be more costly for Cleetus. And most of all, hot swapping a prepared motor when it breaks, takes so much less time than constantly rebuilding motors. Again I know nothing, but the time and money for the motor is either close to or equal to the time and labor for full racing team maintenance. Would love your thoughts

@@tylerwest2666 Great questions. Short answer: Five times more expensive. Also, Garrett isn't competing in a series, just individual events, even if some of them last a week. Winning a series requires top finishes week after week against a tight field. A pro maintenance program makes all the difference. An additional thing- throwing a crank or rod through the side of a block at 200+ mph can end badly from fire and oiling the back tires.

@@neilreid9005 Swapping engines all the time would be five times more expensive than having a professional maintenance program? Or the other way round? I'm confused because I don't have the slightest idea about wages in the u.s. and can only guess the price of an engine like the smx (70k - 100k I guess?)

​@@Harry_Gersack I think he said right around 50k? Don't quote me on that but anyway. You'd have to think even adding someone to the team at 50k a year, that can really add up. If you ask me he's kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place. Especially with his purpose built car almost done. Id say run the fast events with the new car and put the regular big block back in the mino to run drag n drive. But hey who the hell am I right?

They should not have run it. Achieved absolutely nothing and ruined an engine chasing clout.

don't forget it's not an SMX, it's a BBC w/ some of the SMX parts, but not a true SMX

@@aae42nice try bud.

@@aae42 it's a full fat SMX my guy

@@diambo4life yes and no. They ran it to try stay in the running of sick week. They did not know the main cap was shot to shit. Steve told them to run it on 7 as he did not know the extent of the damage and was confident enough that it would not hurt the motor running it on 7.

For Mullet I do not think it is a bad decision. Mullet is too heavy for this type of power. Since he went to the SMX, Mullet has done nothing but eat engines and transmissions. They have stripped the car down in weight all they can. Take it back to the big block where mullet was at its peak and wait for the new build from CJRC to get the power and speed he wants.

The problem is that to get such a big heavy monster of a car down the track hard, cleetus is running the SMX at the same sort of power levels almost every run that the other guys are running as the end of the week, hail mary passes. It's been coming for a while now, but pushing the elco to low 6s just isn't working. They're killing parts that you don't kill until you're in the 5s. Put a cheaper engine in there that doesn't matter if it pops and let the elco live its life as a 7.50 car where it's happy.

@@lilbitofjoy6130 valid point, but look at some of the other customers running the SMX, including Steve himself in the wagon, it has come down to poor maintenance on Cletus part and not doing enough preventative maintenance, that engine requires a lot of up keep at that power level but you hardly see them removing the oil pan to check over things. Keep the SMX but do more maintenance and you’ll be fine!

Alan’s car is over 4000 pounds and so is Clark’s I believe.. both w/ an SMX

@@Eastauckland92 exactly and that’s how you learn… hopefully so, they have some in the industry standing behind them right now.. hopefully it was more of an emotional decompression aaaaand, more horsepower per cubic against the more stuff breaks.. that’s just how it is.. hope they realize that.. going away from an SMX is definitely not a good decision Worked on top alcohol stuff for a long time and people would be running the same product/engines as somebody else, but still would be blowing things up constantly and others would not, and they would go from brand to brand to brand from manufacturer to manufacturer and nothing would change because their program and maintenance didn’t change w/ it.. I’m pretty sure between the guys on the crew and Steve and all those guys talking amongst themselves there’s no way this can’t can’t get brought up to between them (maintenance)

1000%

Big block will make more exciting videos where you don't have to do an expensive dig into the engine to find the damage. SMX will just make faster passes.

Isn't the SMX a big block?

​@@commonsenseisdeadin2024 iirc Smx is a full custom design that was designed by Steve, I believe it uses different parts and ideas from a bunch of different engines

@@commonsenseisdeadin2024yeah but has a lot more motor work done compared to the old ones they were using back when the car made like 2600 vs the 3500+ now

@@heckin_dinosawsmx is just a ripped off allen johnson 481x with water passages added and couple headbolt holes slightly moved to clear water passages steve didn’t design the smx he paid to have the 481x copied and modified to have water passages

They are supposed to have them listed and or available to view. If the state or osha came in they would have been shut down the elevator without the cert lol

​@jessiewarmbrodt8128 😂 they dang sure will. Someone take the plate down at the hospital and it caused a whole big ordeal

I have seen him do it at least 3 times on video over the last few years of drag weeks 😂

it’s not the first time he’s done that either 😭

but seriously, elevators are notoriously safe becaise of tight rules. the elevator union guys don't mess around.

Problem is it’s not just that smx having issues they all are even ones with meticulous maintenance

@@54racemanreally? What other people are having problems with there smx?

@@54racemanwho else has had issues? And being the first main cap he's seen break on an SMX, I'd bet it can be linked to the wagon blowing to pieces last year. Hairline crack that propagated unknowingly

Who else has scattered smx engines?

Tom hasn’t finished a event in years,steve has finished like 1,ned has blown his apart multiple times in the less than a year he’s had it and can’t remember the name of the guy didn’t even survive testing before his brand new one came apart

I hope he doesn't give up on the SMX.

SMX will probably get rebuilt and put in Eagle​@@davidsnoke6733

If he didn’t he’d be overrun with negative comments.

@@davidsnoke6733the problem is the car is outclassed in terms of the rules hes got a race in. He got kicked out of his original class because he was doing so good and they complained… now he’s racing promod big tire cars that are bottom 6s- 5.90s. that’s why he’s building his new car so he can slow mullet down to a more competitive level. Don’t come at me I might be wrong.

​@@crypticchris8812spot on. It wasn't supposed to be a 4000hp car.

Team Morris!!!!!

@@roysfamily7603 always

He did. And how did Garrett repay him? Threw him under the bus at the end. All Garrett’s fault, but blames the engine.

And Cleet blames Steve for a shitty engine????

@@glenryan6569 Garrett did. Such a tool.

This engine hasn’t even been making it that many before for needing to go back to steve for major issues turned down in mullet

Ya it's a fresh rebuild. But it seems like it has similar failure rates as the LS.

@@54raceman its not just engine maintenance, its whole car maintenance. Tire shake, repeated 9k+ RPM 1-3 shifts, bad traction control, and bad ignition system can scatter any other engine pretty quick. then he went and did a 7 sec pass on 7 cylinders lol who knows how long that things been hurt.

@@ryanbernard6550 No kidding it's amazing it held up at all to that abuse.

Breaking main caps isn't a routine maintenance issue. That engine was Morris personal engine before cleetus owned it. I might add it was also grenaded( watch vid) and rebuilt before cleetus bought it. I like Morris but the Smx platform have had a lot of failures @ the 3500-4000 hp mark, I have no clue how that compares to other builders/platform in that hp range,just stating observations and facts. Sounds like cleetus is frustrated I would be willing to bet the Eagle isn't seeing g a morris/smx package. He better paint mullet Snot rocket green and put a stock block coyote engine in it. Lol

100%! A 7second pass on that is crazy🔥

The fact that Steve blew all the rods on his SMX and was able to rebuild the engine with very little rework and still make 4,000hp is a testament to its design and build quality. Had that been a cast iron block, it would have shattered into a million pieces! How is able to still run 7's on 7 cylinders AND with broken main caps is mind blowing! I know Steve will have that engine back up and running in the 6's in a flash. Sick Summer may be over for Mullet, but it will be running before June comes to an end.

Well said

He didn't say it was a SMX problem...... Infact he said it wasn't a SMX issue! He knows it's a "trying to push the chassis too fast!" problem..... He's saying that it's time to dial it back, go slower and have fun again! If he isn't going to push the envelope then there is zero reason to run the SMX. Of course he's disappointed he's going home day 2, he mentioned that they blew the Big Block, then blew a trans and the SMX twice in the last 4 drag and drives and had to go home........ The chassis is just not what he wants it to do! He's pushing ~4000hp and getting beat up by others with ~3000! Without a doubt they turned that car around way too fast and didn't do the due diligence after the abuse he subjected it to in Indy. I doubt Eagle is getting a SM built engine as I believe they are planning on more power than anything (I know of anyway) that SM currently builds! Ripping donuts then running those same tires down the track was a much bigger idiotic move than I think Cletus truly realized too!

​@@commonsenseisdeadin2024​To be fair, he does say they have had a lot of bad luck with that engine and that they knew it was a scratch and dent sale. So definitely feels like he's blaming it a bit. To me it just feels like he's been put off the SMX due to his own neglect. A 10 minute sump drop would of found that cracked main cap. Same goes for the roller rockers and all the other issues this motor has had. But i agree with everything else you said. I'm pretty intrigued to see what engine Eagle will run. I also agree it won't be running a SM engine. I originally thought a Ford engine, since the car will be much lighter. But who knows!

@@inedibleatom iirc the first time it blew was because it was a “scratch and dent” engine?

​@@inedibleatom if it was to be running a Ford engine, why would it be getting mocked up with a BBC block in it? 🤔

Steve actually said in his video it should have still run 6.80s on 7 lol I think it would have it it could build boost on the line

....and his perpetual shit eatin grin!! What a crew!

You're born that way. Dude's humble and caring. Solid man.

That’s what a good employee does.

I dont believe for a second he isnt wholly invested in the team. Its not "thats a 20k trans" its a "thats our trans and it has to work!" Kinda deal

@@brvfd822 you can tell he's way more than an employee

After not competing himself due to the fact that he had too much work on.

Rumor has it Cleetus is going with a pro-mod style Hemi for the Camaro. This was BEFORE he blew up the SMX.

Yessir Steve can sure as heck build an engine

Indeed Steve engineering is monstruous.

When he said “680 tune” I was like, ‘wait, doesn’t this thing make like 4000 horse?’ Then I realized he meant 6.80, not 680 horse 😂

Incredible that the motor refuses to give up and massive props to Steve for building these beast units, this isn't his fault. Cleet really needs to step up his maintenance game. He's upset about parts that have been broken for an unknown amount of time but this ain't a heads/cam LS. At 4000+ hp it *needs* to be torn down and inspected after every event. He runs the car full blast at an event, parks it with maybe an oil change, pulls it out a few days before the next race, then gets blindsided by issues that are totally preventable/fixable but didn't know because he doesn't pull it apart until after it explodes. I love the channel, Cleet, the guys, and the cars but it hurts to see him treat his equipment this way.

@@Joebobinator That thing has a soul at this point. Too bad Cleet neglects it.

If this turns into some goofy sponsored change to a different engine builder / buying part ownership in an engine builder will be super disappointing. Throwing Steve under the bus seems fake / weird / unnecessary.

Exactly. I was quite shocked by the ending. They should do some self-reflection instead of taking stabs at Steve. SMX engines have proven to be great and reliable engines. Yet they need to be taken seriously. Continous inspection. Which also includes the transmission. To me it seems like it's been biggest problem in all the breakdowns. Anyways... we'll see how this unfolds. Probs to Steve Morris for showing up immediately once again.

Y'all are taking this way to serious to think cleet would move away from smx I don't understand why everyone so butthurt all of sudden get a grip it's not that damn deep

@@DesertEagleDutch That isn’t what it was at all. Cleet could have done a better job explaining himself, but yall are also taking what he said out of context. What he meant was the SMX isn’t the correct platform for Mullet, and he’s 100% correct. He can’t even take advantage of all the power this engine has on tap becuz the damn el camino chassis can’t put the power down without blowing the tires off. They struggle to get under 1.17 60 fts, which is a joke to this engine. Mullet 100% needs a new platform, whereas the new Camaro would be a perfect fit for an SMX.

I Imagin the vibrations in the engine were horrific!

Maybe he wont drop steve's engines and just use the old bigblock from steve too

he said hes staying with steve but going back to his last settup

i have to imagine Mullet's weight is an issue as well, it seems like Steve has SMX engines doing fantastic in Promods

It definitely is. Time to make it a dedicated drag and drive rig, eagle will take the reins of the 6 second (and less) car

Yes!! I dare anyone to take a 600+ cid and spin it to 9500 rpm on 40lbs of boost... Parts will go through the hood.

There's wisdom in that Denny. People will get in and drive things that are ready to fall apart, doing the same with aircraft is usually, well, lets say the landings are rather difficult.

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yeah my first thought was he better be maintaining his planes a lot better than his cars or he's in trouble

He needs to go a different route on this car and for the future race car “eagle ” SMX is clearly not the answer

I agree 💯 ....

Nah. Cleet's just being stupid and doing stupid shit with the SMX. At the level the SMX performs at, it tolerates a *little* stupidity, but not what Cleet's tossing at it.

The guy from Canada has a Pontiac engine.

​@@TheMrMusedEXACTLY

@@sleeperimpala2504 There's more than one guy from Canada, dipsh!t.

I know it's hindsight but if you are going to be running the engine for MUCH longer periods than you normally do, before a long event, wouldn't you pop the valve covers and drop the pan to do a quick torque check? Take the intake off and use a borescope to check the cam lobes? Or use a stethoscope to give it a close listen?

Momma know she raised a weenie?

The donuts didn’t hurt it the abuse of that burnout wasn’t as much abuse as a turned down pass to the 1/8th

​@@54raceman this..only detonation causes that kind of damage. This is on the tune up, not the engine.

You could hear the cogs turning as he seen the carnage... Was like wtf....

I think the SMX will be put in the Eagle when it is done.

It's not even an SMX

true, texas speed were getting a bad name due to seeing Cleet blow them up non stop. It's more a user error and maintenance needed and not try and self tune with out even looking at half the data showing it's about to blowup being lean etc. Zac etc are great people, they aren't experinced race car pit crew people. A 4000hp capable engine needs legit experienced people on the spanners

He would still have a steve morris engine. Just not the smx. The old engine he ran was from steve morris also. SMX is a beast but also a pain in the ass. They literally can’t even work on it or swap anything without steve because only certain parts work and steve has to always bring them the parts

@@bmxican0704 He doesn't HAVE to bring them parts. He has them in stock, most of them, and they just don't buy it until they need it and they usually need it RIGHT NOW. Not 2-3 days of shipping later. The only way to make that happen is for Steve or one of his employees to hand deliver it. Cleeter could easily buy 2 of the exact same engine and have spare parts for literally anything. I mean he's literally pushing this thing to its limits every pass.

​@@bmxican0704agree, if they had a full time engine person the smx is awesome. but I think a lot of the issues is mullet being a heavy arse car that forces that engine to live on the edge every second.

@@sirmonkey1985 yeah it definitely had nothing to do with spinning it 9500+rpm and then making 200mph passes on an engine that is running off load balance causing rod tensions and compression to be completely thrown off. Dealing with 7000hp compressors, I can tell you if your rod tension and compression is off on one cylinder even 4 foot wide main caps wont survive at 900rpm.

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Time for a new combination

Exactly there's alot of metal and pressure being built to move that heavy body and I've seen it on this channel when a trans acts funny like that it takes the engine as well. And they just slap another 427 in. An old ag pilot told me engines reliability dissappears at 600+ hp. It's part of racing.

I agree, runnin it out to 9000+ rpms is probly what did it to the main. Think about that crank was flexin out in the middle puttin extra pressure on the caps. I would have thought that the trans issue would have been picked up readin the data logs but i guess its not something you always look at, till now.

@@leonardzielewski2744 that's why they're building the camaro

you act like he has a choice, plenty of people complain about his engines, when you ask him if the push rods should hit the head in the pushrod ports and he responds "itll work itself clear" youd lose alot of hope in that "engine builder"

Lmao wtf

That goes completely against this channel 😂 have you not seen Ruby shoved in a corner, dale truck, blue f150 now, Supra, and a bunch others. All these cars are meant to get used and abused

They are the best engines in the world

😂😂😂

Steve can get a lot of data from Cleetus to improve the engine from his race, abuse, etc. Just wait for SMX engine version 10.

haha agreed

@@JerryDLTN The engine is not what needs improvement, it's Garretts program that needs to be improved.

Burnouts and over-revving, no 2nd gear, no wonder it failed.

💯 agreed... Even the welds a breaking due to the hp, torque and shaking. But it comes across that he's blaming the SMX.

I'm pretty sure it getting the piss kicked out of it isn't the engine builder's fault with the power levels they are making with it and lack of a real tear down inspection and doing things last minute to make sure it is ready

when did he blow steve off?

@@warrenmichael918 at the end of the video he talks about maybe moving away from the smx engine. I don't think the smx is the problem, it looks like it runs just fine with all the abuse.

@@nicholaskemp1287he might just mean a different Steve morris engine, not necessarily a different engine builder. I agree, it’d be a shame for him to go with someone else. Steve is a legend

I honestly expected him to move the SMX to the Camaro… has he hinted on what engine he plans on putting in it?

@@bvp794CJRC sad in their last video, they are expecting eagles motor to be there on Friday.

The damn thing hasn’t managed to make it to enough passes once yet for new springs or a rack or any of the maintenance intervals before having to be replaced from either breaking and having to be replaced early or something else failing and having to go back to steve instead

​@@54racemanHis goals just aren't realistic for that chassis and he's pushing the engine too hard! He's pushing more boost and turning it higher RPM's than Steve ever recommended! With the chassis he needs to push ~4000hp and he's losing to others pushing ~3000hp! (iE Snot Rocket!) Yeah he's disappointed and doesn't want to be done with the week on day 2, he said it himself that he's not blaming Steve and yet the comment section is going wild saying Cleet is blaming Steve and others are even blaming Steve themselves! You can't knowingly push an engine like that THAT hard with a dead cylinder (not to mention knowing the cam is smacking the lifter as well)! They turned the car around way too quickly and wanted to win overall without even thinking! It sucks but the only person to blame is himself..... (And that's not being said with hostility.... I'd love to see him ease up and go back to the basics so he can be back mingling with fans instead of being buried in the car the entire time! I liked it much better when it was him and Bret and the biggest struggle was getting caught in a downpour in Leroy! Make Mullet a 8.0 or 8.5 drag and drive monster and let Eagle and LeRoy go rounds at World Cup and FL/TK2k! Bring Ruby and the other guys on these drag and drives, just have fun! Don't have to be number one in them all!

Sam makes it look like he's out for a Sunday drive. Absolute GOAT

"look at me 150 years old" 😂😂😂

same a g driving 120 one handed

The old guy is a true inspiration.

Imagine the vacuum in the cyl of the dead cyl. if they ran it with the spark plug still in. That seems like it would put some serious strain on an engine running that many R's with the valves closed. I'm not an engineer or race engine builder but it seems like that would load the rod, crank, etc. if the plug was in.

I was wondering about that. It's a compression stroke every stroke lol

@@mrjelly0077 Not when a valve stays open like they mentioned. It throws the crankshaft out of balance everytime a compression or ignition stroke happens and actual forse is supposed to be applied to the crank from that piston.

Do you notice the Monte Carlo guy he's always under the hood and his 4200 lbs car runs in the 6s or low 7s. Its how your supposed to look after a race engine.

Bingo!! They even said it was vibrating when they were going down the highway…. The ran 7 second passes on it. That’s how you break main caps.

Also lets be honest they have not been doing proper maintence on any car in the fleet for a while. The number of cracked welds they showed in the video and all the loose bolts and the broken wire in the last video, that crap doesnt happen over night. I am honestly worried about garrett's safety if that's how they are maintaining the fleet.

Don’t forget the burnout pad from the last event.

@@stephenlea5765 oh man i forgot about that

@@nucphyschem1 He has too many projects and events that I think he and the team might not be able to 100% take care of em all. I haven't heard about his drift cars for a while either(The RTR Mustang, Donnie, the S13 was abandoned, etc). They will return for sure, but yeah, he needs to chill a good bit to retake on all projects.

@@nucphyschem1this is the correct answer, it doesn’t matter how much you pay for an engine if you don’t take care of it. They need to do a lot more preventative maintenance.

Don't forget the pants on hangers at the back window

You just answered your own question they are RU-vidrs not a serious race team😂😂😂😂so yea there’s gonna be mistakes they call themselves idiots I mean what did you think what would happen

till you realize its only for big name youtubers that he does that for

You act like he had a choice. Noonan would love to have him showcasing there water jacketed hemis they started selling