In this video series, you are going to see Steve Morris talk about the engine in his famed B Body wagon which gave up the ghost after just six runs. There are three videos and the first two are right here for you to see. Now to be clear, there was only one part that failed, which was not a Steve Morris Racing Engines part, but when the part failed it failed in all the wrong ways. The bad part was a connecting rod. Well, to be truthful it was eight connecting rods as they gave up WAY before the limits of all the other parts in this engine.
The great part about this video series is that not only do you get to see the carnage but you also get to hear the explanations on what failed and why. This is the kind of insight you normally wouldn’t be getting from an engine builder, and in fact most engine builders probably wouldn’t even have mentioned that this happened at all. He could have easily just not said anything to anyone and could have put in his good standard parts and called it a day. So let’s watch, see what kind of info we can get, and flinch at the level of carnage in this bad boy.
Ouch.
I watched all 3 videos yesterday and was impressed with Steve’s honesty (”I can afford to fix this”) and his ‘look forward, not back’ mindset.
While he did not mention the rod’s manufacturer, I’m sure those closer to this situation know, so it would’ve been good have shown one of those rods in it’s pre-nuclear condition.
If you’ve got the time to watch, it’s worth it. BTW, you can see the good rods in the assembly video.
it would be interesting if the rod manufacturer found the problem and shared. Not to fault them! just would like to know. And I’ve only watched the first video so far. I need more hours in the day LOL.
all so honest and interesting