17 year diesel tech here. That powerstroke likely isnt glow plugs. You need to check injection control pressure. Likely an IPR valve went bad. Very common on those engines. Start with pulling codes. Message me if you need any help.
As a machinist and CNC programmer in the aerospace industry, its still always facinating to me to watch someone elses machining processes. Everyone has their own style when it comes to fixturing, tooling, etc, theres a million ways to make a single part and how you do it is what makes it your own and youre killing it Steve!
Man you are by far the best engine builder AND BUSINESS OWNER I have ever come across. The length you went for Mullet is unbelievable. Obvious admission from V/O that it was over revved and abused MULTIPLE times. And you still back up your work. ANYONE ELSE would have turned it down. You go above and beyond and ONE DAY I’ll BUY one of your engines. Mark my words.
Nah, it's called service after the sale. His engines are expensive, if customers paid their actual costs plus a small profit Steve Morris would not be in business long running around fixing stuff overzealous drivers and tuners tear up. He is compensated for his time, don't for a second think he's doing it out of the goodness of his heart. It's just business for him.cleetus is a high profile customer, so he probably goes out of his way to take care of him. Sure, they are pals but at the end of the day it's just business.
@b.c4066 thanks for the laugh mate. Build something yourself and sell it, if it f@#ks up, you'll understand what I meant and what Steve is doing. Fricking hell. The stupid are everywhere
@allan95 None will drive 4 hours to help you. They will drive 4 hours to help Cleetus, bc him using the smx platform is an advertisement in itself. So helping him finish/win races is important. You're the one who said that other engine builders don't warranty their engines, which heavily implies that this was a warranty job. You need to pay attention to what you type. I can guarantee that Steve doesn't drive 4 hours to help anyone who bought an smx. I'm not even against it. It makes sense for Steve to do this. This is absolutely not standard treatment for anyone who buys an engine through him, and if you could get him to do something like this, the bill would be a lot more than what he'll charge Cleetus. If you bought an smx, you're a customer. Cleetus is an advertisement.
He doesn’t really have a choice with the amount of publicity he has. Imagine the hateful comments he’d get if he didn’t drive 4hrs to help Cleeter when he’s flown all the way to FL to help out previously. It’s more or less expected that he should come running when Cleet breaks something.
@@Nick210 More or less expected?? Have you ever owned a business or ever built anything in your life? In the racing world, you will find exactly 0 other engine builders who will do what Steve does, damm, that more or less expected just bothers me, this generation of pampered entitled ........
I watched this first and than the Cleetus vid he did you diry in the end..... Im here supporting you. You inspect your engine every day and he once in 5 years😂😂
That engine was the one steve blew up in his wagon and welded back together and remachined. He had to rebuild the oil pan thats how bad it was. That engine had problems in mullet from day 1, cleetus sent it to the moon twice, thats the second time he found metal in the sieve. Cleetus got steve the subs he has and steve basically gave him that engine in return. The fact that cleetus is mad is not steves fault, he said that over and over. He wants to go in a different direction, every time he says that it works out well for him ive been watching him for like 7 years. Steve isnt going anywhere, his engines are still bitchin and everyone knows it. theyre still friends, this is racing. Mullet will never be what Eagle is becoming, both of these channels have very very bright futures ahead.
@@MichaelOfRohan Agreed, Cleetus said multiple times it's not Steve's fault. He's mad, that's reasonable. any competitor that has had to drop out of 4 race weeks back to back would be mad about the outcome. He ran the Steve Morris BBC before the SMX and had great luck with that combo and won a ton of events with it. Steve makes killer engines, cleetus makes killer content. There's no reason people need to make everything into drama. Good on you for stating all of this to the person you replied to.
How did he do him dirty he said nothing against Steve or his engines but he keeps breaking it and also stated he m ew he was buying a scratch and dent unit but see what comes in the future just like he took his buddy’s shop of the back for his own nothing against him at all you didn’t even watch the end of his video did you
some one that does not stay in the loop and watches every video right here. if you watched everything around steve and cleetus, you would see everything instead you point fingers. time to adult here.
Congratulations on your first in-house block team Morris. I personally would enjoy watching the heat treating process explaining the science involved. Your RU-vid channel has a little something for everyone's interests.
After seeing the ending to Cleets video I rushed to his comment section. The amount of people in support of you is as amazing as your customer service seems to be. Every one is blaming Cleet and not your engines. Most are in agreement that cleet needs a crew chief for these cars and that's why he's always breaking things. A lack of proper maintenance. Running so many passes with no second gear. Hurt lifters and cam. Putting it in a burn out pit and sliding it around. Saying he wants to go back to the big block is silly. I guess he forgot how often he broke that engine too.
He didn’t break Steve’s big block too much I think the point of it is to at the new Camaro is gonna be his focus, mullet needs something more streetable for drag and drives. Steve’s engines are race engines, not drag and drive engines. You don’t take a $75,000 engine for a stroll down the road.
Everyone including cleet and Steve know Steve is not at fault, engines get hurt when you push them beyond their capabilities and even when you don’t. Stupid people in the comments will stay dumb shit it’s what we do.
Steve you need to collaborate with the guys from Titan CNC. As a machinist i can tell you that there are way better tool paths you could be using especially during the roughing that could literally save you hours per block. I really hope you reach out to Titan.
@@atnotthiolnoy1 depends on a lot of things... the wrong things happening to a lifter can for sure hurt oil pressure if you're dumb enough to leave the injector plugged in, you can wash down the walls and contaminate the oil pretty badly not saying either of those are likely but if you lose a hole and just keep driving it's possible to hurt things more
@@MikeHarris1984 Not this Power Stroke owner. I have a 99’ 7.3L Power Stroke. Theeeeee Last Great Reliable power strike with No Fricking Emissions, or DEF Crap on it. Every Power Stroke after the 7.3L is TotaL Crap Junk.
I pulled a 3/4 ton, 4 door, long bed Dodge across town with my VW Rabbit Diesel. I used that car as a shop tow and jump start vehicle. It never let me down.
Almost sure no SMX already claiming 5000 to 5500 up so that's even above the SMXs pay grade. The Eagle Camaro is going to be a state of the art ultra serious full out race car, this one should say Garrett on the roof this is no Cletus mobile. This car will run 5s and should be taking names, its going to be cool.
Smx is capable of 5000, but very few people are capable of putting more than 2000 to the ground. Lots of guys running stuff in the 3-4k range that can make 5000 on the Dyno.
@@glenryan6569 You can take anything Garrett says, and add a massive pinch of salt. That said, the SMX will be more than plenty for that car, and can put 4000+ to the wheels. Steve has already measured 4000 and change to the hubs on the Wagon. In case you do not know, that's somewhere between 4700 and 5000 hp to the flywheel.
I bet your engines are like having 100 children out in the wild, it's like when your kid breaks a leg , you rush into action like a dad coming to their kids aide. LOL
@supermotos I have a SME engine, and I can honestly tell you that the customer service and help is second to none. Now when it comes to Steve making a trip to fix an issue, I can 100% guarantee he's not doing it for free. Not even for Cleetus. Is he getting a cheaper rate? Probably. But I can guarantee you he's paying for those parts Steve's replacing one way or another. 😂
@@chrisoakey9841 the problem with that, I think, but I'm not an engineer, is consistency. You'd have to re-calibrate the whole thing after you've done the cuts, whereas if you let the CNC do the whole thing, you have no such issues and can just keep on going. It could very well be that the time you're looking to gain is wasted re-calibrating the CNC for the newly cut block.
@@halofreak1990 on the same mounting block, no. the difference in machine time milling vs a band saw or similar is quite alot. on top of which the cost of an hour of bandsaw vs an hour of cnc will make it worthwhile. since you are already removing the block to reposition, you need to do locating anyway. so why not get rid of the bulk corners.
@@halofreak1990 the reinstall in the machine requires the recalibration already. they have the end machining as references. i assume they already calibrate when remounting so they can be accurate to continue. the part is already out. so all good there. you could even add a probe to each cut surface so you don't machine to deep and risk breaking a tool. probing references may take a minute. but a million dollar cnc machine save 3 hrs each block. and the extra work is done on a $50k machine. its about machine billable hours. the more you can move off the big boy, the more the big one earns.
Steve you’re a hell of a friend/ business owner. Every time something breaks in mullet and cleet calls you and asks you for help to get it running good again your there at a drop of a hat. Your amazing man
@@DJPixcell So it is in fact hours 🤔 I was seriously confused if the clock showed hours:minutes:seconds or days:hours:minutes because he said "after one day" when the clock showed 01:30:53. I thought why does it show 1day : 30 hours : 53minutes when it should show 2days : 6hours : 53minutes 😂
It's the Morris Signal! Quick! To the Freedommobile! Also, that billet block isn't just a V8 engine block. That's a work of damn art right there, absolutely beautiful.
CNC Machine basically like being a sculpter. Remove everything that doesn't resemble an SMX block. Perfe work of art. As Always, May God Bless you and yours!
Just watched Cleetus, seems to me he can't take the blame for flogging your motor beyond its limits. You make an awesome product and went above and beyond helping Cleetus stay in contention. I solute you Sur.
@@hambo6713 The wagon it came out of is just as much of a beast and has huge tires. It has lived an easier life, load wise, since cleet took it off Steve's hands.
I'm not trying to bash the guy, but I have never seen anyone break as many engines as Cleetus. I think for a while he was keeping Texas Speed in business he broke so many of their engines. He just blew one up Pete Harrell built. So I'm not surprised he broke that SMX.
@@cmonkey525yep. People gotta realize these engines are made for a couple passes and rebuild. Not 2 years straight on the strip and 4000 miles on the street and then rebuild. You wouldn’t pay 50 grand for a street engine, cleet wasn’t thinking about the street side of things he just wanted the best so he got a bigger Steve morris engine.
@@Gkitchens1 Steve's engines are currently the gold standard in drag and drive Six Seconds 2.0 Won Drag Week with a 5 second average with one. He got the right engine for drag and drive. The issue Cleet seems to run into is throwing everything together at the last minute, not doing proper inspections and tear downs, little to no testing and expecting top performance out of the car at the end of the day. Mullet has been pushed much much further than it was ever intended to be, Cleet has said as much. When KSR built that chassis it was meant to be a e85 LS powered stock suspension deal. We now have a water jacketed pro mod engine, back halfed car. The chassis, wheelbase and weight are really limiting factors to what that car can do at this point.
It’s mainly for content. Run them as hard as possible. Get crazy videos and then break it. Get another cool video and repeat. He’s a marketing genius. He runs these engine so hard that he knows people will blame him not the engine. Gaining more views
Dont let cleetus go to another motor set up, soncw the beginning you have been the best at making sure he is all set up, flying there, driving there, dropping everything to take care of him. If cleet really wants to go thats on him. Wash your hands clean. Show his character more than yours, if i ever have the dough to get a big motor SM is for the Win!
Hello Steve, been a follower since I found out you were building motors from scratch. Extremely impressed with your very complete and reliable designs. I can't imagine how many hours of planning, programming, and testing went into getting the first one done, and then the additional 1,000's of hours spent refining it and perfecting them for production runs. I can't imagine the cost of all of that but I hope you are now able to reimburse yourself. I started out learning this stuff in a very modern EDM shop, Norman Noble in Ohio. I first learned to run the 2 Japax 5 head Wire EDM machines that were used to make surgical scissors for Johnson and Johnson, and heart cathedrals. It was not very exciting, but I got my foot in the door with zero experience at that time responding to an ad asking for a minimum 5 year guy. They couldn't find anybody else, but I didn't know that and called in to at least try to get in. I told them I was fascinated by the machining side of things and really wanted to learn, and that I learned quick so they hired me. I didn't realize how lucky I was at that time because it is one of the biggest EDM shops in America, and had the only 2 5 -head machines in the Country at that time. Then I moved onto Wire EDM, making military parts including Patriot missile parts and F16 landing gear, tool and die stuff and Heart cathedrals for J&J, and even Ohio Class sub parts. Many don't know this, but there is no "forming" or bending of metal allowed on any Nuke Sub. It has to be machined or welded. I got a job closer to home and worked for Arc Drilling and Dynamic balancing and learned there to do very close tolerance work. Many of our jobs, which included Involute gear cutters for Swiss machining stations had multiple + or - .0002" specs. Then I moved but continued on learning and learned to run CNC Conventional EDM machines, more wire work and finally CNC Mills. I loved learning the tech and was blown away at what was now possible. We also had 2 5-head Mills but the only jobs they were used for was for subbing out the machines for a guy who made custom S.S. props for race boats. Btw, no I'm not applying. lol I just wanted to share my background and after growing up in a drag racing family, and learning what can be done with modern machining, what you have done is on par with 1 in a billion. My dad, who passed 2 years ago, would be in awe of what you have accomplished. He built drag race motors for 30 years prior to his passing. He also went 5.99 in the 1/4 with a Turbo'd big block Chevy at 235mph in his Top Dragster. I can't imagine a low 3 second 1/8 mile at 180mph but he did it. Once they allowed Turbo's into the Top Dragster class his 7.70's car changed into a low 6 second machine. I got to drive the 7's rails of his and my brothers, but sadly, I was a 1,000 miles away once they went to Turbos so I never got to drive anything that fast. You guys are often going faster in the 1/8 then I did in the 1/4 going 7.70 at 172mph, my best pass. My 1/8 mile Et's were in the 4.40's at 147 mph. I can not imagine going 180 in the 1/8 mile, but I'd sure like to experience that one day. It's people like you that make that possible for us, and I can't thank you enough for all that you have brought to the field of racing, and speed and power. I wish you the best of everything, and I hope that God Blesses your intentions. You have made a massive contribution to this World, and I just wanted to thank you in full. I appreciate all the tech videos as well. I have learned a lot watching them and feel like I'm at the edge of my seat when you show how some things are done. Fascinating, to say the least. That you Mr. Morris for what you have done, and for sticking to it no matter how difficult it must have been to do. I am very grateful to you for that, and for sharing so much of it here.
hell ya! Thank you steve Morris and co.! what an amazing group of people. Wonderful individuals working so hard to improve themselves over and over again..love you all!
Trips and moments like this, are the actions that are going to cement you as a legend in this industry for many many many years to come Steve. Absolutely love the type of man/friend that you are
Steve can you please tell Cleet he’s the problem and the SMX is NOT the problem. Perhaps proper & routine maintenance, not running it on 7 cylinders, not doing donuts post 5 runs, running it at 9500+ RPMs, + many other examples I won’t list here we all get the point. It’s amazing the beast of an engine the SMX is knowing the torture the Freedom crew puts it through. By the way you’re the man!
Garrett is the best advertising for Steve's engine I could imagine. If you can run Garrett's cars and trucks you can do anything a normal user would throw at you. I hope to God he doesn't treat his airplane and helicopter this way.
He never said the smx was a problem, it just isn't working out for him. There is no need to blame anyone or get upset when neither person actually involved seems to be doing that.
no need to point fingers at anyone because he never did either. Steve even said to send it on 7 cylinders.. Donuts are the least of his worries when he’s running low 6 seconds passes. The 9,500 rpm wasn’t exactly intentional, that’s just what happens when you loose a gear. No reason to point fingers at steve or cleetus.
You mentioned having to make a few scrap trips. If you use solid endmills and want to make less chip volume but still remove same mass look into helical roughers. They work well for me and the chips are smaller and wash away easier as well.
Cleetus is catching alot of flack in the comments in his video for even mentioning giving up on a SMX for Mullet. You're getting more supporters for being a class act Steve and many a very disappointed in his disrespectful comments after you have done so much constantly to help him.
@@IISTAGIIdude who s time literally worth thousands per hour drops everything to help out then is at the minimum thrown shade when the client in question appears and this is based on channel content which is what any of us have pushed the motor well beyond specified design parameters due to numerous factors many completely preventable... That' can come off as not cool to alot of viewers.... The unintended consequences could be the inability of sourcing engines when other builders see that and determine it may not be in their business interests to form a relationship...
The funny part is the big block he ran was also a Steve morris engine, so the commenters giving him shit are stupid. Especially considering the new Camaro is being built to replace mullet as cleet’s top dog.
I got to work with a lot of exotic metals! I’m sure it will be normalized before heat treatment. I enjoyed the process! Thank you Steve for the info you share!
You guys should build a little battery powered lexan/plexi disc that spins so it constantly flings coolant off of it. Mount your camera behind that so you can see the machining better. Make it magnetic mount so you can put it anywhere. Kind of like those spinning windows on the CNC machine doors you see sometimes
Tear down on mullets engine will be interesting. block may be toast, Cleetus it’s racing and this is what you do, no judgment. Steve’s been there for you. And you going to jump ship. Dont think I’ll be watching you do it.
I know you probably have a video addressing the SMX in Mullet coming soon but I want to comment about this now. I was embarrassed at the way you were blamed for what that group of destroyers with McFarland Racing did. They put that engine through what can only be described as irresponsible destruction. Zac seems like a nice guy but he knows only rudimentary maintenance and an engine of this caliber deserves qualified race mechanics. Garrett didn't tell Steve about putting Mullet in a burnout performance at Indianapolis even though he did say he may have run it up to 9500 RPM. I don't think you need to have a relationship with those type of people. It will only make your absolutely fine made equipment suffer at their hands. Then like today he will get in front of the camera, after you went down there to help, and blame you. He also said that engine was a "Scratch & Dent" special when he got it. Steve went through that engine before Garrett ever saw it. Steve, your an awesome person and builder of engines. Be proud.
I've mentioned it before. Your video titles are misleading. Title about mullet and helping cleetus, turns out to be a video about towing your sons truck and machining?
I just thought of a possible way for you to save some dollars on aluminium. With some clever planning, you might be able to sqeeze a bunch of them periferal alu parts out of the main block piece. Like if you first cut out the V and either side of the bottom end with a bandsaw, ofc leaving plenty of clearance for the milling machines to have some wiggle room, you could probably use it for a whole bunch of other smaller parts, and save on how much of that block goes back to the recycling guys!
You know the GM / Chevy guys are just loving it seeing the GM wagon towing the Ford😂 there's that old saying, what does ford mean backwards? Driver Returns on foot.
Seems like that SMX has been nothing but trouble for Cleetus. I know Mullet isn’t the right chassis but mechanical reliability wise the old Big Block seemed like such a better motor.
I think he’s a big boy, if he feels it’s too much trouble he can make that choice I doubt he wants or needs you to go to bat for him and comment on the engine builders video lol
Hey Steve, I thought I saw a small tear in the yellow lifting strap from the fork lift to block lift. Please check. Could be deadly. Those straps need to be replaced often. Even the slightest imperfection could reduce the max lifting weight significantly. Good luck sir. Rob
@@TheXshot Imagine you have all the material you machine away for the wadder passage and no wadder. Super strong engine. Methanol only of course. That said, I'm guessing Garrett will like to have that car as a D&D car, so a wet block is needed.
Just finished watching Cleetus McFarland video on Mullet and did not like what he had to say about the SMX and the problems he has caused. You have done nothing but support the man and product through everything. Lost respect for the man ....
Well Garrett did admit to abusing the SMX against the recommendations of Steve. But come on man that is just racing, and besides, it can also be considered R&D for Steve Morris.
In my racing carred everytime that I did something that the engine bulder recmimended not doing ended in bad results. Whern I took the pieces back got the builder and got the I told you so, kinda gard to blame hime and bad mouth him when I was the problem. Cleetus really thrashes his equipment and you don't see many maintaince videos, just replacing the carnage.
@@michaelm7874 Look the scars every morning where the second run of much blower over drive(104%) and 8300+ RPM when the builder said nothing over 94% RPM on the blower and red line 8000 RPM
Now that Cleetus dropped his video, we can see that hitting 9,500 rpm might have contributed to the damage that ensued. I know Steve said it can handle 10,000 rpm, but loaded and unloaded are two different scenarios. There's a reason that manufacturers put lower rev limits to unloaded conditions. And it's not to prevent neutral drops. You can prevent engagement outside of certain rpm.
Dont worry Steve, this is the engine from the wagon. It already had a hard life and served as testbed before it went to cleet. It became loyal to Cleetus but it had no easy life there too. So a weird failure was bound to happen on this engine, it has been thru allot. You get weird hardening and stresses over time in materials, that is the only way something so massive could break on multiple caps.
Shouldn’t have wasted your time. Guy throws you under the bus after he and frat boy buds destroy everything they touch. Not a true ASE or higher rated mechanic in the bunch. More to jumping from 7s to 6s than big wallet full of fanboys money.
Damn Steve you need a Bat signal !! A giant SM in the sky!!! You are one hell of a guy!! I can’t wait to have a motor built by you!! Saving up now!!!! I learned about you when you worked in designing the Devol 16!! Been a fan ever since!!
I agree, I’ve watched this for a long time. His crew is honestly relatively inexperienced. They are parts replacers and swappers. They just don’t have the knowledge and attention to detail an experienced team has at the level they wanting to compete in. How often do you see them say “ we missed this or forgot to do that ?” His aviation background needs to extend to his racing. A proper preflight and check lists. At all steps. I was watching Steve’s reaction and facial expressions when he saw the damage on Garrett’s video. Steve knew and mentioned off hand about a missed broken valve spring that probably started it all. He has to bite his tongue a bit as a business owner.
Definitely coming back for the 2 SMXs with different power adders. I know you won't disclose the numbers, but would LOVE to hear you talk camshafts on those!
Not the glow plugs. They only matter if it’s cold. The truck hasn’t been sitting in the cold and was just running, plenty of heat in the engine. I might suspect air lock in the fuel system.
