Has anyone truely blown their engine?

[1974dodgecharger]

By adding a power adder? 

Curious how fun it was I hope to be there one day, but everyone who I talk to saids, 'I know my cousins, sister, brothers, uncle, sisters, dads, mom who drove their 1000HP  daily driver 69 Plymouth barracuda hemi 572 back in 1970 blew their engines by adding a blower'

Its never  actually them and YET they blow their engines constantly even as a stock setup 

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Will anyone here ever admit to blowing anything.....even a seal?     

[Lennard]

Will anyone here ever admit to blowing anything.....even a seal?     

I've blown a fuse once!   

[1974dodgecharger]

Will anyone here ever admit to blowing anything.....even a seal?     

the guys I talk to somewhat admit they blown their stock engines and tell me adding a blower will blow my engine because their stock engine blown...so yeah 

but your right I guess I would never admit I 'blown' anything....I NEVER HAVE 

[c00nhunterjoe]

Melted the plug tips off of my 383 right after i built it when i 1st dabbled in the dark art of giggle juice.

Years later i tried to blow up my 302 in the fox body on spray. Couldnt do it. Bone stock bottom end with 140,000 on it. Trick flow heads, f cam, roller rockers, torker intake and 850 holley. Plate system adding a 150 shot fogging 300 on that. Had a seperate fuel system for the spray. Car DESTROYED transmissions. Ran 11.50s on motor, 9s on giggle juice.

[birdsandbees]

I wanted to replace the 318 x auto in our '69 Fury II with a 440 x 4 speed. I tried everything to blow it up so I could, first running it with a brick on the pedal without coolant until it seized. It started right back up once cooled. Then I removed the oil and did the same thing and the bastard still wouldn't really die. Dad came around the corner and said "just do it already"! 

[c00nhunterjoe]

We did a test in high school on some of our donated cars that were head to the scrap yard. We drained the oil out and fired them up in the morning. We let them idle.... some for hours. Hammering and smoking and carrying on but still running. It was pretty amazing to watch. Some locked up in minutes, some ran a long time.We had an old escort that ran clean up til lunchtime so my teacher got in it and held her wide open to finally kill it.

[Daytona R/T SE]

the guys I talk to somewhat admit they blown their stock engines and tell me adding a blower will blow my engine because their stock engine blown...so yeah 

Stop hanging out with Chevy guys. 

[1974dodgecharger]

the guys I talk to somewhat admit they blown their stock engines and tell me adding a blower will blow my engine because their stock engine blown...so yeah 

actually you are CORRECT!!!  The guys who told me this were chevy guys and one ford guy....


Stop hanging out with Chevy guys. 

[440]

I rather say it's a huffer then a blower.

the guys I talk to somewhat admit they blown their stock engines and tell me adding a blower will blow my engine because their stock engine blown...so yeah  

actually you are CORRECT!!!  The guys who told me this were chevy guys and one ford guy....


Stop hanging out with Chevy guys.  

Weed is now legal...... maybe need to lay off it a bit?

Just sayin  

[Charger_Fan]

I have bought a couple with blown engines, does that count? Here's the most recent one, with engine carnage pics 3/4 down on page one...
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,44616.0.html

[fizz]

Its a job better left to proffesionals. And I have several that work for me.

[69wannabe]

My buddy had a 68 barracuda that I built a 416 stroker engine from a 340 and he ran it at the strip a good bit and sprayed it with a 175 shot of nitrous and it flew apart after a good year and a half of nothing but abuse. I still believe if we would have went with the H beam rods instead of the I beam rods the engine would have never came apart. Lots of carnage in the oil pan after it went poof!!! Lol

[6spd68]

I have bought a couple with blown engines, does that count? Here's the most recent one, with engine carnage pics 3/4 down on page one...
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,44616.0.html

Did you end up swapping and selling the car?

[Charger_Fan]

I have bought a couple with blown engines, does that count? Here's the most recent one, with engine carnage pics 3/4 down on page one...
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,44616.0.html

Did you end up swapping and selling the car?

I still have it.
I built a new engine for it & fixed a few other smaller issues, then when I was ready to sell it, the economy had tanked bad enough that I would have lost money. I didn't "need" to sell it, and especially if I was gonna take a loss, so I kept it & drive it occasionally during the summer.

The selling prices are looking better currently, so I may try to Ebay it next summer.

[6spd68]

I figured something like that would've been the case, based on the post dates.  Hopefully she goes for a fair buck when you do 

[cbrestorations]

i have blown an engine... going into turn 3 it felt like someone reached over and pulled the hand brake, spun around and hit the wall head on. come to find out a rod let go, hit the cam, snapped the cam in half, spit it out the back of the block and got wedged inbetween the button clutch and the block locking the rear tires at about 100mph going into a turn.

[Lord Warlock]

I'll raise my hand, I have "blown" up three engines in my life, and had one commit suicide while parked in my driveway.  The suicidal one, parked outside in FLORIDA, froze one night and instead of a freeze plug popping, the whole side of the block broke, where you could see pistons from the outside.  Never seen another block break that bad from a simple freeze.  Had freeze plugs pop before, never a whole block.

My 69 charger RT, I blew up the original motor, driving back from offshore oil rigs where I worked at the time off the coast of LA or TX.  had a piece of Teflon from the timing chain gear that dry rotted and fell off the gear, and it had got into the oil pan, and on the trip the small piece of plastic got past the oil pump screen, got stuck in the oil pump and snapped the drive shaft off, car overheated, I pulled over immediately, let it cool, added water and tried to turn around and go back to Slidell Louisiana...didn't make it a half mile, engine seized shortly after, had no idea the oil pump was to blame till I tore it down.  That was my original matching number motor, and it had a small two inch long hairline crack in the middle main journal.  Back then (early 80s) used engines were cheap.  it was cheaper to buy a salvage motor than to do the machine work to have original block fixed.  Feel retarded to have let the engine go for a simple hairline crack like that...It could have been saved i'm sure.

Its replacement engine from a salvage yard was a 383 magnum, was told it was a 440, and only found out otherwise when got the engine in the car and got to the point where I put the distributor back in, and was using as much from the original motor as I could, and tried to install a 440 distributor in a 383, didn't work.  Eventually worked it out, got it all installed, and the beast fired up on the first try, which was amazing to me back then.  Drove that engine for about a year, but it "blew up" also on a long drive, it overheated and locked up, It spun a bearing,  never found out what caused the bearing to fail, just took it out, and bought a wrecked 69 charger r/t, and pulled the motor and transmission out of it and put it in my car.  When I got done, and it was running again, I decided it was time to park the charger and stop using it as a daily driver, got a different car, and kept the charger in my dad's garage (his fit 10 cars at a time in it)until I had my own house/garage to park it in, then moved it back with me. 

My 91 dodge twin turbo blew up on me on the way home from the dealership after I had them change valve seals on the heads.  I heard the bearing go, sounded like I ran over a steel plate on the highway (I was on a bridge at the time) just a loud clank noise.  as I got off the bridge and got on an off ramp, the engine died completely, and never ran again till I had a new motor put in.  I should have accepted the loss and moved on with a newer car, I had been using that car for 9 years and it had been trouble free the last 4 years.  Made a bad decision and elected to "build" a potent replacement, had a great paying job at the time, and could afford it, but I wasted 15k on the drivetrain on that car, which I never really drove again full time after that engine replacement.  Eventually decided to work on the 69 instead after a close friend of mine died in his 40s of a heart attack, figured if I didn't restore the charger then, I never would, and sat the stealth aside and started a slow restoration on my charger.  Took me almost 10 years from that time for me to get close to completion. 

As to "blowing" a motor via adding a supercharger, I haven't done that ....yet. I had the twin turbo stealth and was into turbos a while, then two cars later owned a supercharged mustang cobra, which ran great at 21k miles when I got it, and sold it with 45k miles on it to buy my current challenger RT. 

I am currently trying to make the final decision on whether to order a supercharger for my challenger.  Have the money set aside for it, know what I plan on getting installed, and who to do the work, but have been procrastinating on the actual purchase because I've never spent 10k on a car mod before.  I have no desire to get another car, I love the challenger I have, but want a little more after 5 years of driving it as it was.  I kind of want to hear from my doctor whether chemo is working or not before pulling the trigger, just had a CT Scan today to find out, may have to wait til next week or week after to hear from the doc though.