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
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....
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.
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 .
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.
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
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
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 🤣
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..
@@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.
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!
@@OGbqze 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.
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
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.
@@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!
@@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.
To everybody talkin about putting radiators on them or fans do you realize that it would take days to blow the damn engine up at that point LOL the idea is to try to get them to overheat and blow up
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,
It looks like all GM engines blocks I hate see those old historic engines being destroyed..The last sounded like it was ready to blow before it got started.I am a Ford guy but it's still kinda hard to watch.
a good way to save the planet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pollution for the destruction and even more pollution to build a new one instead of rebuild the existing one.
The true geniuses were the ones running the water pump and recirculating it. 👏🏻👏🏻
Low compression. As fat as you can get the tune.....and get that quench as close to 32 thousandths as you can if the rules allow.
Higher ethanol content can actually cool down the motor as well.
@@ShadowsxEvil methanol would have been genius too, if it was a competition to last the longest as I assume it was
I feel like I’ve just witnessed several murders
A Ford guy here and I agree lol
Well said haha
Haha lol.
Cash for clunkers was a genocide then.
What a waist
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.
How do you tell that is not a 4.3 just by looking at it
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.🙂
@@richceglinski7543 damn alright. I only asked because that's what I thought it was lmao. You sir, know your shit
Your right on that first engine . Probably had 0 compression in one of them by looking at the exhaust flow from the headers
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!
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.
cool story, your dad sounds like an asshole.
@@The_Cat_Authority you too
When machines take over they will remember this
They will...
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
I know right! I swear I would be rich if I had a dollar for every time I seen a engine killed from heat/stupidity lol.
Well the goal it to blow these up without a radiator or fans...
Has anyone ever been in a fast boat? Throw the throttle all the way forward and hang on.
@@ryliemidwinter2816 that's the fkn point of the vid moron
@@The_Real_JN calm down little buddy
I think this falls into the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" category
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....
@@gofastdodge very true!
who has that amount of time in their lives to go and watch this and just sit there
The same people who have the amount of time watching it on RUclips
Rip bozo
Honestly this is just kinda sad... Any motor can be given a second chance.
Could've been put into a car or truck
Yea that's what I thought
I know what a waste of nice classic American iron. I gave this upload a big old thumbs down
Yall are week. I bet these didn't run and these kids fixed them and had their own fun.
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.
As vice grip garage would say ,giving her all the onions. Lol lol
VGG! Yeah! 👍
The old eye-talian tune up
Facts
All the onions and all of the Rpms it can take
That's factree
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 .
i think they stoped the 3.8 in australia in 2004 mines a l67 s/c vy commodore
One of the greatest engines of all time...💪😎🇳🇿🍺
i regret selling my vp wagon 😪. Its probably still getting around.
@@markcrystaltownsend1578 😂 it'll still be driving by the time i have kids and grandkids
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
Did you ever think that it might be for educational purposes
Lmao! These were tired ass motors and probably shit just laying around. Get over urself!
if no one wants it, is it good machinery? its - its not that deep.
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.
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
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
They taught us how to build engines to last,things sure have changed
@@randycobb7527 u kidding. Whats the point in destroying them!? Stupid project. Your not taking them apart either. Welded together now
@@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
@@erandy0240 ever heard of endurance test? It’s a common thing in engine building programs across the country.
@@randycobb7527 Did you get your refund from Trump University yet?
He was court ordered to pay you back.
Whooping and cheering at the destruction of a good engine. I don't get it.
Where's the fun in that?
How do you know they are good engines
Good??? Not one of them was running on all cylinders to begin with
I thought it was fun.
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.
That was a keeper. That motor will get you home!
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 🤣
6:21 reminds me of the race night . Come on 53 more laps to go . I had an olds455 .
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
Probably still got shitty quadrajet carbies on them lol 😂
👍 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..
What kind of a school teaches you to destroy rather then repair? School needs to lose funding
Schools that don’t have enough equipment to rebuild.
Pretty much the most boring engine destruction video you can find anywhere in the universe.
Yes, its the height of stupidity.
@@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.
@@GnosisMan50 to see what failed.
@@speedyme200 Thanks for your reply. I hope they make another video showing what failed.
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
I'd like to see someone bring a volvo redblock to one of these.
We wpuld be there all week waiting for it to pop. Haha
And bring a Deutz air diesel too.
Some say they already have and the event ended long ago. But the engine remains running
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!
A bit of an overstatement
@@averycarson747 Hyperbole, yes. Cheers
Meh EVs will go flat first
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.
Who's got that kind of time? An engine should run for quite a while at redline if it's kept cool.
@@sweet65mustang I do
@@OGbqze 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.
It's been over 3 years and they claim the slant 6 is still running strong.
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.
The last one was the best when it windowed the block, awesome!
Heartbreaking. That first one would have been awesome in my minivan.
That first one sounded like it had a couple of dead cylinders
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
Starving kids in Africa could have eaten those engines.
A old VW bug engine would crush the competition, air cooling go BRRRRRRRR
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.
Sand is not bad too, to kill an engine !
@@cletusspuckler2243 If your doing warranty work, sand don't belong in the engine where as nuts and bolts do. LOL
200 shot of NoS also works great
@@mattgraham1983 LOL !!!
The fuel has still a cooling feature, but when that block is red hot it's game over.
Fuel has a cooling feature? Fuel combust and creates fire which pushes the Pistons how the hell does fire have a cooling effect or "feature"
@@burdman5620 Yes, injecting cool fuel does have a cooling effect on the engine.
@@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!
"Garage 54" gots some funny engine blow ups!
We're giving her all she can take Captain. 😆
Best use of 305 Chevrolet I can think of.
That 3.8 Buick V6 lasted quite a long time!
Damn.. that old ford put in some work
Pretty sure the last guy didn't need an air filter 🤣
Air filter restrics flow and results in the engine running slightly richer and slightly cooler
@Sgt Brown well said 😂
What a totally useless event, must be the USA only.
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)
Pretty sure they built them to see which would last the longest. Looks like junkyard motors
Wow Frank what an intelligent comment did you go to school for that??
@@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.
I'm giving her all she's got Captain.
Why in the hell, dude there's so many gear heads that woulda loved to have had these engines
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
If Build Back Better was a engine.
Does this make anyone else sad? Motors are so good to us, why abuse them like this?..
I'm doing my state competition for hvac through skillsusa and it was cool to see another tech field doing there tests
Valve float kept the first one running a long time
This hurts me inside
2 men enter, one man leaves.
One of the most stupid competitions I ever saw……. And it’s actually called torture.
If someone was seriously competing in this competition, they would’ve brought one of the old inline sixes from GM, dodge or Ford.
Shit with those you can stick a box fan on it and air cool it probably lol
It's another "Let's see how much petrol we can waste for absolutely no reason at all" !!!!!!
I don't get it, what a waste of motors. 😭
What kind of test is this ?......Wow a water cooled engine with no water burns up....No kidding !
idk why they do it. but i love it
You proved that an engine with no coolant will seize.....yup
The buick 3.8 had to have stopped because the fire destroyed plug wires, id say it internally survived.
with coolant, these would have lived waaay longer... thank you for the rad delete!!
over heating and seizing engine*. if my high school was like this i would have gone….
you're supposed to hit it with nitrous for the spectacular grenade
poor motors ...........running without any lubricant / coolant ,very slowly painfull death ,can hardly watch it
How do you know they didn’t have lubricant (oil) in them?
When someone says, can I borrow your truck this weekend, this is what they do.
What a waste. Theres starving kids in Africa that could've eaten those engines
Women just wouldn’t understand this.
Neither do I, but I love it.
I have witnessed a Caterpillar engine idling away... once they drop the oil plug the timer begins
It did not last 90 seconds lol
9:31 satisfying rod through the pan with a m1 grand sound ping
That last engine looked pretty nice
runs like shit tho
@@d-metz7827 tuning
@@Speakertweaker-tp4em sounded like it
I was thinking the same shit
Overly retarded timing!
Always wanted to see this except with gasoline in the water jacket, give us something catastrophic and spectacular!
This is like watching paint dry.
It’s all fun and games until someone enters with a Detroit diesel and let’s it run away for an hour
I'd of never known this was a thing unless it randomly appeared on my homepage.
Wow, the entertainment this content brings
If these were Honda motors the video would be a lot longer.
No cooling. ... brilliant. What purpose does this serve.?? What a waste
Basically over heated.
I would like to have seen a runaway Detroit blow up
Truly ingenious
To everybody talkin about putting radiators on them or fans do you realize that it would take days to blow the damn engine up at that point LOL the idea is to try to get them to overheat and blow up
"One day ima get me sum wheels"....
Oddly satisfying 😌
If you drain the oil from crankcase it will have less internal friction
They got no water running to it how you going to do an endurance test of course the thing is going to blow up it's got no water in the jacket
With gas prices this days no one is going to this ever again
New valves and rings , probably work good as new
5:48 that’s why you don’t stand by the cage
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,
To that next motor runs for days.... MARATHON...
The 2nd engine sounded pretty quiet w/o a muffler
It looks like all GM engines blocks I hate see those old historic engines being destroyed..The last sounded like it was ready to blow before it got started.I am a Ford guy but it's still kinda hard to watch.
I think the second one was a Pontiac. Im ONLY going off of that little bit of blue paint. What do you think?
@@boeing175 pontiac engines are GM
The English refer to it as 'Giving it some Beans'
These poor engines :(
a good way to save the planet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pollution for the destruction and even more pollution to build a new one instead of rebuild the existing one.
She gave it hell that first engine
Why? Any fool can break stuff. Impress me by keeping something running forever.
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.
Even with the flames hold her to tha Tin!!!!🤘🎊🎊🎊 🔥 🔥 🔥
Hope people were sick enough to pay for that.
Watching one was enough.