When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have never seen them go as wrong as spectacularly as they did for the guys who own and operate the Industrial Injection Master Shredder truck in this video. An explosion and flaming fury the likes of which you hardly ever see out of a top fuel car let alone a diesel engine is an incredibly violent demonstration of the forces at work inside an engine that’s truly maximum effort all the way.
Diesel trucks have been making four digit power for many years now but pushing the boundaries of 3,000 is truly incredible territory when using something like the basic 6.7L Cummins platform as your foundation like the truck in this video. No, it is not a stock block as the whole engine is all race stuff. This truck is a regular competitor at events like the Ultimate Call Out Challenge and other diesel competitions, like the one it’s attending in this video.
Amazingly no one was hurt and the driver as well as the passenger were able to scamper out under their own power. The most amazing thing to us is that this thing split the block with enough force to take a top half of the engine along with the turbos, all the plumbing, fuel pumps, etc and throw it to an amazing height. It threw it far enough that you’ll see it launch and then you’ll see it land as the truck reacts as if a VW Beetle were just dropped on it. Basically it was.
We have not seen any engine autopsy stuff yet but we can’t imagine there’s much left that can be saved. This is truly jaw dropping. Oh, we should mention that the truck nearly made it to 3,000hp as the dyno recorded well over 2,900 before the explosion.
Brilliant to run a machine on the very edge of self destruction with spectators packed around it.
This is why we can’t have fun events.
Ya its bullshit
was waiting for the super slo motion version.
Holy crap! I wonder what RPM he was turning!
Geico, we have a problem
sounds to me like the dyno failed then no load on engine, rpm zing and BOOM
It was loaded for sure. With the torque on these diesels, they spin up an inertia dyno quick. It was big number. I’d be curious to find out what it was with an overlay of the first run where it hit 2920hp. This is the second truck (Power Driven Diesel did it at speed on the dragstrip) to fail like this, but it is common in tractor pulling. The block simply gives up along the cam centerline. Everything above goes up.
There will be safety regs for this dyno going forward. This is the same dyno DHD blew apart on, but for that one, the doors were on and Mark was wearing a firesuit.
Here’s another vid with multiple angles….first three minutes is a guy talking, dyno pul starts around 3:15 – 3:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2zwCipHZGY&feature=emb_rel_end