And despite appearances it`s not a small car-sized engine either... Large truck/small marine application unit by the looks of it. Probably around 15-20 litres capacity.
looks awful the way its dumping parts and heamoraging fluids whilst dyign to death afterwards. messy!
Sounded and looks expensive! Would love to see some pics of the aftermath though! After watching that again, can't help wondering if that was a destruction test though, sounds like it's revving way past it's comfortable speed.
When the engine's speed is increased it seems to go off a cylinder a few seconds before finally grenadeing itself. I used to work on the big Mercedes 17 litre V10 engines, and if the driver down changed for a hill too soon and over-revved the engine they would chuck a rod. I remember stripping one down, and when I took the second bank of cylinder's exhaust manifold off, the front half of the block rotated one way and the back half rotated the other way! The conrod on no5 had punched out all the block around it and made quite a good job of making 2 x V4 engines.
Imagine a 21,000bhp V14 marine diesel throwing off one it`s (bolted on) 400kg (-ish) crank counterweights...or snapping it`s crank... Big bang. Big mess. Properly scares a turd out of your a*se, I can tell you...
Looks like it, though someone clearly put in the wrench-time...wonder what one of those retails at?...
tbh it looks like he needs to get down Harrys and order three of the big ones. the will fetch a premium the night before race wars, though
I hate to see engines die - but that was grea to watch!! Literally a shower of debris followed by a dumping of oil.
i recently changed a diesel engine that had died in a simialr fashion. It was only a sprinter diesel, but i thought the damage was pretty bad. done trucks that had chucked legs out etc, but i just loved this image that my fist could go straight into the belly of the beast!
