dyno explosions

[Ghoste]

Here are some great time wasters.  Hard to believe a Chevy guy sent me the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDp8yjdFAD4

[firefighter3931]

Tractor pull explosion : http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=sy8pk0&s=5

BB Mopar stroker failure : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Kh-A08FAc

[bull]

Holy moly! Where'd the top of that tractor engine go? All those clips look very expensive.

[tan top]

not good  ..damn that tractor was a big blow up 

[Ghoste]

Anybody here experience an explosion like that?  Whether on the dyno or on the track.  (I don't mean witnessing them, I mean your own engine)

[bull]

Anybody here experience an explosion like that?  Whether on the dyno or on the track.  (I don't mean witnessing them, I mean your own engine)

Not quite as catastrophic but I did window the block of my brother's 6 cyl IH pickup. Made about a 3x4 hole in the side with a rod and yet it was still running on 5.

[FLG]

Man...thems some shiney pistons in that tractor engine....had to be brand spankin new!

[69bronzeT5]

Holy moly! Where'd the top of that tractor engine go?

Under the back tires!!!

[Tilar]

I've been to a lot of tractor pulls and have seen parts come out through tractor hoods, but never the whole top half of the block.

[mauve66]

well hell the crank still looks good, hey bubba, go over to home depot and get some JB weld.........................

[suntech]

I had my engine blowing up big time in a powerboat race in UAE. 2 conrods broke off @ 10K rpm! This was a 2,5 litre mercury outboard F1 motor.
Could read the newspaper through the hole it had in the block!! 

[jb666]

When my buddy got his dyno installed 2 years ago, I spent a good part of each Saturday filming dyno runs for him/different groups. One person with a '68 Vette was CONVINCED he was pulling 375 HP, so he kept pushing and tuning and pushing and tuning until BOOM.... He was towed back home. I felt bad for him..

Other than that, I filmed no accidents, explosions of other problems.