The beer barrel intake and mpfi has about the best distribution you can ask for. He is tuning it on a terminator x but I’d bet he’s not into individual cylinder tuning on it. Not even sure the terminator has individual cylinder tuning capabilities. This was a hard parts failure.
Aren’t they all hard parts failures? The cause, however, we can only speculate on. 20psi isn’t a lot of boost, except in the case of a 40 year old stock block so who knows. It could have let enough oil in the chambers where even the best tune wouldn’t have mattered. He could have easily found the threshold of too much timing at peak torque for those rods as well. Pretty hard to tell the root cause from a video. Still, pretty cool to see.
Ha! Yea they almost always break hard parts. Without knowing what his tuneup looks like, you’re correct we are all merely speculating on the root cause. I would however place my bets on rod bolt failure being high on the list of possible suspects.
You should watch it, the amount of carnage is pretty impressive. It broke so much stuff I can’t imagine the crank isn’t bent. He does roll it over after all the rods are off the journals and says there’s a tight spot, so highly likely.
Yeah, but instead of praising Tony for doing it, everybody will run his *** down.
Only if hes wrong.
You joke.. but that old *** boyd cottington show (not sure on spelling his name) had a car that wouldn't start.. they blamed it on a water leak.. no lie.... a buddy and i still laugh about that
...and this guy wasn't "wrong" for 20 PSI on a stock motor? I know. Of course he wasn't. But Tony would have been. I understand. You're a great machinist and a very knowledgable individual, but you're fulla **** as a person.
That's the goofy part. Mopar guys are as you said "cheap bastards" but unfortunately shivvy crap is what's cheap..... If more of the Mopar guys stepped up they would get cheaper to work with...
I think you misconstrued my comment. Tony has a history of "borrowing content" from other channels to give his input. ( THATS what I was referring to) it was a bit of a joke, but true. A recent example is the video of the "600HP 318" failure. It was someone elses engine, he made a video explaining his theory is the timing chain was to tight, and it broke the block after 2 years. He was wrong, as usual, that's my point. Tony should stick to his own content, like how to build a slant six that wont last one 1/8th pass without breaking. Or how to spend 5 years on a turd 318 that also brakes down every trip to the track. As far as knowing me as a person? You have never met me, so that part of your comment is baseless and absurd.
I can assure you there is a whole WORLD of mopar guys that are NOT cheap. And the chevy stuff at the same power/durability level isnt as different as people think cost wise. The "cheap bastards" are the people who follow garbage builders like UTG. Not all mopar guys are that stupid.
Maybe I did and I apologize if I did.
No worries
