Holy Catastrophic Engine Failure Batman...

[Chaotic_Warlord]

Came across this on the Something Awful forums, just a heads up there is no language filter or NSFW filter on this site so if you see or read something outside of this thread that gets you in trouble consider yourself warned.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3222431

Just so you know if you've never heard of Something Awful, it is a paid site, so while you can view pretty much everything on the forums you can't just join, you have to either be invited by a current member or pay a fee depending on what kind of membership you want. This keeps out the riff raff and prevents the average joe from joining just to troll in a thread. And No I am not a member I just lurk the forums every once in a while to see the awesomeness that gets posted...

[Chaotic_Warlord]

Lots of views and no comments, weak.

[Ozzie]

Cause we are all still looking at the linked thread.

Good find.

[MellowZ32]

SO MUCH CARNAGE!

[Razi]

This is some cool ish!

[nissangirl74]

That is some pretty crazy shiznit. I never knew some of those breaks were even possible.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

I never knew one could literally snap an engine in half. Though I guess when it's under extreme stress, like say a drag racing, I guess anything is possible.

[tigersharkdude]

I was like OMG WTF when i saw the v8 turned into 2 inline 4's

[TroubleBound]

Haha that site is awesome, i like the tags when members edit their posts.
Makes me feel little better about my timing chain rattle.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

I never knew one could literally snap an engine in half. Though I guess when it's under extreme stress, like say a drag racing, I guess anything is possible.

Engines are essentially contained explosions happening very quickly. You get an engine block heated enough, it will warp, then fail. Or, if you have oil starvation, the rotating mass of about 100 pounds stops very quickly...transferring that energy to the cylinder wall and then the block. Probbaly a combination of the two caused that 302 to split in half. Was probably running high levels of boost or N02 with inadequate cooling and lubrication (Blocked oil pickup)

[Chaotic_Warlord]

I never knew one could literally snap an engine in half. Though I guess when it's under extreme stress, like say a drag racing, I guess anything is possible.

Engines are essentially contained explosions happening very quickly. You get an engine block heated enough, it will warp, then fail. Or, if you have oil starvation, the rotating mass of about 100 pounds stops very quickly...transferring that energy to the cylinder wall and then the block. Probbaly a combination of the two caused that 302 to split in half. Was probably running high levels of boost or N02 with inadequate cooling and lubrication (Blocked oil pickup)

Yes but the normal reaction is to either grenade itself thus sending a rod and/or a piston (or 2) through the side wall of the block, not create such an intense fissure in the middle of the block to cause not only a portion of the block to break off but go to the extreme of split it straight up the middle. After all these are solid forged iron block that we're talking about here, not something pieced together by welds or a 2 piece mold.

[yourbullit]

it's all "loving" and "gentle caress" on that forum.

[hatedinthemind]

thats crazy stuff