Here at BangShift we’re all about low buck builds and making due with what you have in regards to parts and tools.
I’ll admit to having used a screwdriver as a pry bar or the handle of a floor jack to gain some extra leverage instead of searching for the breaker bar that seems to wander around my garage, only to be found six months later. Sometimes you have to make due with what you have within arm’s reach, am I right?
That said, there’s a few things that I won’t mess around with, like lying under a vehicle that isn’t supported by jack stands or firing up a motor for the first time without it having first been installed in a vehicle or on a good, solid engine test stand.
But hey, I’m just one of those fancy-pants Yankees, so what do I know?
Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a testament to real ‘Merican ingenuity, which is a polite way of saying “Check out these self-proclaimed rednecks that decided that firing up a big block Chevy attached to an engine hoist via a chain and a tow strap or two was a good idea”
Giving credit where credit is due, the guy firing up the “fo fitty fore” has some big brass ones for even being willing to stand next to the Chevy mill while it’s doing its best “Enraged animal trying to break loose from my human captors” impression, and it does sound pretty good for the few seconds that it actually remains running (Side note: Almost everything sounds decent with open headers).
If any of you BangShifters have a line on the sequel to this video, which I’m anticipating will be titled “Man sets fire to himself due to unfortunate fuel spill and carb backfire in tragic yet hilarious turn of events“, drop me a line ASAP.
CLICK BELOW TO WATCH SOME REDNECK INGENUITY AT ITS FINEST
Gee , I’d love for them to break in my newly rebuilt engine …………. NOT !
They’d break it alright…
Was including “in” with that post a typo? 🙂
So what was the big deal ? They handled it……………..
I couldn’t watch this very long.
The only thing missing was a toddler walking near the running motor unsupervised.
Darwin is always watching. I bet these turds have a rendevous with destiny.
Was anyone even bothering to look at an oil pressure gauge? Ah, never mind…
If it’s a flat tappet it’s toast
Think I’ll do that w my slant six.
All’s well that ends well!
My uncle would do stuff like that. Stopped to visit one day and he had a Corvair engine sitting on a pallet running. Old school?
“Hold my beer and watch this sh1t”
You know that damn big ass motor is going in RL’s 4wd mud truck anyway. That’s the one that him and puddin got hitched in. Its got that big terbo 4hernt tranny and those traktor wheels. That sucker is sweet. That’s the Truk that Puddin and RL made them 6 kids in. Well maybe not that redheaded one. RL still thinks that’s his bro’s LT’s. That boy is the smart one.
oh… are you not supposed to do it this way?? OK, I’ll admit it! when I first pulled my 351 out of a wrecked Fairlane I needed to fire it up…and I have video to prove it!! check out the gnarly flames near the start… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fytn33gCVlc
Sweet! Now I need to go pick one of my loose engines and rev the shit out of it.
geez, i thought everbody had run an engine on a stand or hoist or the ground at one time or another?
heres a 350 i built for a buddy, running on a stand with a hoist for back up. 🙂
(sorry bout the low quality vid)
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After seeing that I think I’ll sell my engine stand. Who needs one when ya can just strap the thing to a cherry picker?
These guys ain’t rednecks like the guy said.. Rednecks wouldn’t strap it down then say, “Watch this.” 🙂
actually one of the funnier things I’ve seen is a guy buying a Holden 308 from a wreckers we were at… they had it sitting on a tyre idling away after starting it with a battery and a can of fuel.. no exhaust, sitting on the floor in the counter area.. that was sketchy enough….then the guy who’s looking at buying it, without letting anyone know what he was about to do, leaned down and cracked the throttle open… and there was no return spring on the carb….so it went from idle to five or six grand in a second and torque being what it is shot off sideways and rolling like a psycho chainsaw…everyone jumped for their lives and it smashed through the timber at the bottom of the counter….destroyed the carb, fan, fuel went everywhere but didn’t ignite, battery acid all over the floor too – then the guy who revved it goes ` nah, its rooted now ‘ and calmly walked out while everyone else was in shock…