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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fFh31Ejmk Crappy music, but you can see the entire piston and rod sail out the side of the engine. That fiat split open like an egg, jesus. Edit: Thanks. 
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Absorbs Smaller Goons posted:An engine block can twist when overheated. Combine that with torque and you can easily bend an engine block.
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Nov 1, 2009 20:17
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hobbesmaster posted:You just have to keep stress/strain in the plastic region. A ME could elaborate on how hilariously improbable that is, but there you go. I know. I was asking for some empirical evidence since outside of very minor warpage, a block is going to splinter and shard before the whole block goes pretzel. Get just throw some duct tape on this whole conversation and continue on our merry way. 
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Nov 1, 2009 21:51
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'm pretty sure that was a joke about how many pickup truck owners will just throw another 500lb of crap in the bed of their truck that's already got 2000lb in it and is barely rated for that. Some people just flat out ignore any ratings what so ever. There is a Prius floating around where I live that was towing a beat up camary down the highway at a painfully slow speed. There is a video of some mudding hole were a jeep got stuck and they called the site's tow truck to help pull it out. 90's era F150 tow truck ended up bending in half.
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Nov 21, 2009 18:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTd_xXpDQ0 You can hear that front end snap like toothpicks. There is a video of a f150 tow truck trying to pull some jeep out of the mud and it ends up bending in half from the strain. I can't seem to find that one.
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Nov 29, 2009 03:43
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scapulataf posted:Imagine, a whole society of refugees living at the bottom of the sea in their shipping containers. Biocrate.
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Feb 7, 2010 01:40
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Looks like the flywheel has left the building. I think it was that silver disc bouncing down the track at 100mph after the explosion.
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Mar 27, 2010 07:41
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D C posted:My thought was an exploded transmission sending the motor flying breaking the mounts. When they first get an up close shot of the aftermath you can see the bellhousing has been shattered and the entire flywheel/clutch assembly is missing. The radiator support is bent away from that area of the car from an outward explosion. High RPM + lovely bolts/unbalanced assembly is what I'm thinking. That kind of force could gut everything in its path. I think there was a video a couple pages back of a small block on an engine dyno that sent its flywheel through a few walls/metal cabinets when it failed. Edit: All I can find is this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2pz1PkhAo8 "I'm FREE!" and this; http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80533 Makes me nervous about putting on my new chromoly flywheel in my mr2. Kotaru fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Mar 27, 2010 |
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Mar 27, 2010 21:50
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I've never seen a piston completely vaporize like that. That poor 283, good little motors.
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Aug 11, 2010 02:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vBWtq_uacs That would scare the ever loving poo poo out of me.
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Aug 11, 2010 19:53
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Whitey Ford posted:Is that some cheapass chinese "lightened" flywheel or something? The teeth from an aluminum flywheel can separate and cause just this since they are just heated then pressed on. Chromoly flywheels are safe imo; hard to screw up a steel flywheel.
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Aug 17, 2010 06:15
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Clutch failure; The friction materials teleported out of the disk.  I've heard about the USS Thresher sinking back when I was in school, but I've never heard the actual radio logs. Google is not bringing up anything.
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Feb 5, 2011 19:57
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That tierod held on for dear life.
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May 10, 2011 03:37
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peepsalot posted:I'm trying to figure out what causes the flash of light on the face of the water heater from the view of it popping at 2:10. The electrical connections shorting out since its rocketing off at that point.
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May 28, 2011 17:14
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Landerig posted:
My folks have two cars, a 99 lumina fleet that hasn't had an oil change in 20,000 miles because "I don't have the time" aswell as front brakes that have completely failed leaving the rear drums to reel in the car when its clanking its way down the highway at 60mph. The other is a 97 Sable Station wagon I gave them that has been ignored to the point now that its spun a bearing(s) but is still being driven. The truth is that most people out there don't care at all and act extremely upset that they have to pay for upkeep/repair on a complicated piece of machinery. And when the extremely neglected machine fails, they scream and cry about everything being unfair.
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Jun 10, 2011 19:26
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The Scientist posted:It sounds like he was able to run all of his errands, I'm not sure I'm seeing your point here. People are too cheap/inconsiderate for a tow, thats what I got from it.
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Jul 13, 2011 22:31
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Motronic posted:
Houston, just saw that one the news. How did the signage support that sort of impact and not turn into a pretzel?
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Aug 10, 2011 15:24
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revmoo posted:I'd take it to Napa and ask them to machine it just to get their reaction. Drop some weld on it and mill it back smooth.
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Sep 16, 2011 04:14
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At least the freeze plugs are still good.
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Oct 25, 2011 03:54
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I knew there was a reason I took to 2 wheels so easily. Reminds me of a acquaintance I know in the MR2 forum, he spent 2K on a fresh new machined 4AGE, then left it dangling on a cherry picker with no cover or sparkplugs outside for a month. A tarp at the very least would have been better. Of course that above is miles worse.
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Dec 6, 2011 19:42
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:AND HE'S A loving ENGINEERING STUDENT!?!?!?
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Dec 6, 2011 20:04
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Yey! I finally get to post one of my own. I'm replacing the head gasket in a 500 dollar MR2 I purchased as a second car. Aside from the ripped out torque mount and the incredible assortment of wrong bolts and wood screws that held it all together I found this. I wanted to see why it had zero gear oil when I pulled it.  Hello differential, you getting some air? I think he tried to JB weld it with paper or something. Edit: 
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Jan 9, 2012 19:59
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Root Bear posted:
He is a NASCAR driver and overcooked a right turn. 
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Feb 9, 2012 04:06
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So how peppered with holes was the starter?
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Jun 15, 2012 17:35
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some texas redneck posted:I dunno, his Redneck Rollercoaster looks like a fuckload of fun. He is still on YouTube under a new account but I can't bring myself to watch him anymore due to his past.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:How does that even happen? Seriously hosed tranny cooler? I imagine the transmission discovered it has wonderful new straw and a sweet tooth.
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Aug 13, 2012 01:59
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The oil filler cap held strong.
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Nov 10, 2012 23:11
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Sockington posted:To be fair, it's not like there's an engine up there to absorb some of that impact. They are pretty stout for their age and size. I feel safer in it than my third gen camaro.
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atomicthumbs posted:Install explosive reactive armor for extra fun factor. We've protected your ankles by vaporizing the offending projectiles and the vehicle they came form.
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Jan 11, 2013 06:31
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A horrible mechanical failure waiting to happen; http://imgur.com/a/lgdfm
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Feb 6, 2013 04:10
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TotalLossBrain posted:It is unfortunately fairly "common-place" for radiography sources to do this kind of damage. These have been put out in favor of linear accelerators in the medical field, only a few labs still carry cobalt 40 systems for non-medical purposes. I thankfully normally deal with sub 150Kv medical imaging systems, but we do have a 1.5Mkv linear accelerator that you can gain access to via a 2 foot thick steel/lead lined vault door.
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Feb 26, 2013 17:33
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CommieGIR posted:...and then put force behind it. So it will snap off and impale the palm of you hand. It all makes sense now!
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Mar 25, 2013 19:46
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kastein posted:Just realized I forgot to put this here. Is the AX5 based off the T5? Because that pretty much how the T5 fails 90% of the time and that assembly looks exactly like a T5 main assembly.
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May 19, 2013 14:05
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Kill-9 posted:$40? Where? Fits through a hole the size of a sparkplug? I require something like this. For, um, science. Yeah. Science. I bought this http://www.harborfreight.com/digital-inspection-camera-67979.html and it would not fit through the sparkplug hole.
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Oct 15, 2013 17:16
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Apparently someone on Reddit took pictures of something Sock touched; http://imgur.com/a/sPeQJ
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Seat Safety Switch posted:More of a horrible craftsmanship failure, but Expanding foam painted silver!
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