99.9% metallurgy, something wrong with the heat treatment on those rods. Never sean AL rods fracture like hard candy. You are a stand-up individual God Bless you.

Holy smokes that is wild!

Steve I'm AMAZED you quoted Jesus that's awesome that's why I bought my cam from you I sensed you had a good heart.

When you went to the Bible at 27:50 I understood how you are so patient and calm about this situation. Being a mechanic nearly all of my life I've seen many weird, strange things happen. But never anything at this level.

Rod material failure, absolutely. It would be money well spent to have a metallurgist look at the microstructure of the material to determine a root cause and fix it. Attaching a "Blame" name to stuff like this is useless and counterproductive. I'm with you on this one Steve.

I love that you show us this stuff, Steve. I've been in the engine building industry my whole life but never on your level. You share secrets, build tips, failures, and everything in between. Such a learning experience for me. I guess two ways to look at this failure. #1...maybe a metallurgy issue with the rods. #2...they always teach you to build the motor to fail every cylinder at the same time, otherwise you are leaving power on the table. Cheers bro! Clearly a good tune up!

This video is absolutely awesome and Steve is a fucking treasure. They're out here on the edge of what's possible with materials and engineering, and Steve recognizes that and is happy to find out problems and just keep pushing. Stuff like this wasn't possible 20 years ago, and that's due in no small part to Steve and people like him. Keep up the fantastic work Steve and crew!

Your attitude and outlook on this whole catastrophic failure has earned my like and follow! Not that I’m anyone, but from one man to another you helped redirect some of my negative thoughts when I’ve dealt with things in racing bikes and now as I start to build a drag truck. Kudos sir keep that positive vibe flowing!

When he says “If you can’t afford to fix something like this, don’t build it” I can appreciate that. That’s why I have cheap junk that’s around 1100hp and goes 8s. Built for next to nothing. If it breaks. It’s whatever. It’ll hurt. I won’t be happy about it. But I can throw another budget engine in it and go back to throwing 32psi at it 😂

im just in awe of how 8 rods can say later , and the crank still spins . parts failure is common but this is just one of those that is just hard to understand . thank you for sharing

Wow! 😳😳😳😳😳 Parties over "Everyone Out"! And I mean NOW! Looks like Rodney and Frank the Crank had a fight and parted ways!

This is supreme carnage. Thanks for sharing. Thank you Steve, for being so good to us.

Steve. I have a very, very high degree of respect for you sir! You are an amazing engine builder, father, friend and business man. I am 74 and have been building engines/racing since 1967. I can truly say that I have "never" met a person like yourself. I have had carnage in my days but never on that level. Please continue being the Steve Morris we all know and appreciate.

Steve... You are one HELL of a standup guy! I say that because you're an elite engine builder, where your bread and butter is living the American Dream, doing what you're talented at, and capitalizing on it as a small business. You didn't have to share this video with anyone. Yes your car broke while at the track, and mention of it may have made it's way around, but you didn't have to share this and elude to any carnage this mule motor suffered, but you did.. And I hope everyone watching understands that you're not putting this out there to say that theirs anything flawed with what you've built for others... You're putting it out there to educate, but more so to show the community that you're a hardcore veteran (and that puts it lightly), who's able to know just how far his work can hold up before any potential issues because you're committed to R & D.

Much Respect for your cool outlook on this expensive disaster. I raced in the 60's and 70's on the street and fact is when you are pushing your equipment to the max sh** happens. Glad you didn't wreck nor get injured.

Man your a humble person. I almost think I can hear the frustration attempting to come out when your discussing everything near the end of the video, but I also hear you keeping calm and not allowing it too make things worse then they are. .

I have had similar failures on aircraft parts in 7075-T73. After the analysis it was determined the anodizing caused the failure to micro corrosion. Have the certs pulled from the anodizer. I really appreciate the way you are handling this!! You would be a great customer!

Damn Steve after watching the whole video I just figured out I really like you! I don’t know you but I think you are a decent stand up guy with a great outlook on life. We can all learn a few things from you and not just about engines. 👍🏻

27:46 Amen Brother! Stuff happens and you're a role model for dealing with it. Love the channel and all the fine work you do!

I totally enjoyed watching this video. What a great attitude you have Steve! Confucius says turn the rev limiter down 3.4 rpm and you will never have this problem again. More importantly, it is so nice to see that you are looking at the things to be thankful for in this disappointing situation.

Bad metallurgy... The aluminum provider needs to do some explaining. 🤔

Steve Morris you are a awesome guy!! Your character speaks volumes about the type and kind of man you are… thanks for sharing!!! Keep being you brother!!

As a fellow engine builder, and a former resident of Muskegon it's really nice to see how much your shop has grown over the years. Keep it up man. Love the content.

I love your honesty & great attitude & strong faith, even in a crisis. Honor to subscribe.

With all 8 rods disintegrating, makes me think that something in the process when they were made wasn't correct. A dry sump has a major safety benefit in a situation like this! So glad that you and the wagon are ok! Thanks Steve for all you do, I've learned alot from you and your videos. God bless brother!

I built and worked on engines for almost 35 years and I never saw a failure like this ever . my only question is when did they start making rods out of explodium it looks like one rod failed and took the rest of them out for a beer .

Great attitude. The Rod‘s are the number one high stressed part of your engine. it would be interesting to do a metal analysis and see if there’s any issues there but this is racing. Great video

It's great listening to the total disbelief as you continue discovering more and more. That thing is SO blowed up, I think it suffered deep EMOTIONAL DAMAGE TOO! Whelp - yup. There it is! I'm grateful to see you taking it in stride, and appriciating the fact that, you don't HAVE to spend a lot of hard-earned money to vet this thing back to the track, ypu GET to spend a bunch of hard earned money to get it baxk to the track. Good on ya, Steve! Gratitude is it's own reward - and being able to show that to others is priceless. Rock on, Steve! 💪👍🏁

You're a great role model Steve. Thanks for keeping your attitude positive and preaching the good news!

First thing I thought as soon as I saw the first connecting rod was “hey, weren’t those from a new rod vendor?”. Sounds like he’s working well with you and I hope he can get his material sourcing sorted out. Thanks for taking us along for the ride

Steve you sir are a class act! In adversity you are seeing that it’s still a sport and you are a good sport when it all hit the fan! My hats off to you! I hope the rod mfg. Can stop this from happening to another racer! Keep going fast! God bless!

Amen brother! Great to see a man being a man about this cuz ur right stuff happens!! Im a super gearhead inspired by your attitude and shop ,God has really blessed you ! im inspired to have a shop like yours soon! Im proud that theres a clean mouth believer out there burning rubber and engines lol 😂 God bless you sir!!

Steve being as real and as salt of the earth as it gets. You're a good man for sticking up for your supplier. No rant, no crapping on anyone. It's racing and stuff happens. 100% agree with your assessment, it's the raw material. I'm buying a sticker to go with my tee that didn't have a piston in the package.....

You're so right. If you cant afford to blow it up, lose it, etc, you should not bring it to the battle.

I trust the man that shows his own piston deletes. I love your channel and thank you for sharing your knowledge.

What a stand up guy. Love the fact you didn't trash or blame anyone. Was on best pass of my life a cpl yrs ago and rearend exploded, ppl were trashin dude that built it for me except me and ended up being a parts failure just as yours was and they were awesome about helping solve the problem.

Connecting rods have left the chat!! Absolutely incredible destruction, kept looking to see if any of the rod journals of the crank had a rod on them before you got the pan off. Huge amounts of respect with how great of an attitude you are handling this with especially the last 5 minutes of the video. Hats off to you sir.

This is when you realize how important that drip pan is. Wow. Couldn’t imagine all that under the tires at that speed.

Love your attitude. That goes a long way towards a dependable, honest, and successful business.

Thank you for your Jesus Sermon comment. We all need that constant reminder of our Lords wisdom. May God bless you and all of us.

LOVE this content Steve! Honesty, Integrity, Humility, with a healthy side of Gobsmacked. If you aren't breaking stuff you aren't racing hard enough. You and your incredible parts suppliers will learn from this and apply that knowledge to make it better and faster. You can make a snow globe with the shrapnel.

You're a good man Steve I love the attitude "stuff happens" hopefully after you get it all figured out you'll lets us know what happened and looking forward to the rebuild video.

You sir are a class act! If all the world were as humble it would be a different place.

You're a good person Steve! You will help progress the sport of racing with that kind of attitude!!! 🏁 🏎

Once again the man is just brilliant pure genius. 4000hp and turned those rods to dust absolutely insane carnage. Sucks to see but I'm sure he will figure it all out and crush his personal best. Can't wait to see next engine build and the disecting of this engine. Stay safe Steve Morris.

I’ve seen windowed blocks before. I’ve never seen every rod disintegrate inside the engine before. Glad you’re safe to race another day!

My first time watching your clips Mr.steve. I truly have to say I addmire the way you handle this. You have a good heart an may God bless you many times over most other guys would of blamed my mother an every body's uncle. L.o.l good to see . from all us car guys. Refreshing. Addatud. Good luck

Sir I have the utmost respect for you. God bless.

So honest and real. Transparency on your UKposts videos is what people will respect you for

Not trying to arm chair quarterback, but I would look into sending the rod parts to a testing company. Find out if the material had an incorrect heat treat or some other material processes. It may have occurred before the rod company began machining… in the raw billet stage. I do NDE UT/PAUT/Eddy Current. Billet material should be accompanied by a lot number.

It's crazy how much I have learn in your videos taking your motor and mullets motor apart crazy how you can find what mostly died first thanks Steve

you Mr.Morris are such a humble person. glad i found your builds thru cleatus.

The harmonics that go on in an engine at 8500 rpm are hard to fathom. Crazy respect for your over the top professional attitude. What a legend.

Kudos to you for your great demeanor. You set a fine example to those who look up to you.

God bless you Steve I love to watch your CLEAN channel!! I know God is with you and you will get it figured out with his help. Again God bless you

Man, I've been watching tons of your stuff recently, and how you are handling this and quoting Jesus, you just won a lifelong fan and brother. love you man!! Way to shine your light and show people how to have some grace and that we aren't perfect and sometimes crap happens, but God is good all the time.

What an unfortunate situation but I love the way you handle stuff, we'd definitely all be better off if everyone adhered to God's golden rule. You really have a fantastic channel going here and I'm always eager to see your content. Can't wait to see what's next and thanks for bringing us along.

I have heard of "grenading" an engine before and seen many failures. however this is the first and maybe only time I have seen or ever will see what can truly be described as "grenading" thank you Steve, you are a modern day legend! i am very grateful for your content!!!

Very nicely put together video and very EPIC destruction as well. Love your channel. Thanks for posting this.

Your right. Never seen such destruction in one motor! Hopefully yall get it sorted out so it doesnt happen again.

I've seen some blown engines. This was absolutely the most beautiful extreme failure I've ever seen in person or on the internet. Also way to use this scenario as a teaching moment for your viewers and customers. I'll definitely be curious to see how you fix this!

Hi Steve, looking at that grain structure of the shattered pieces I agree with you on them being way too brittle. Hard luck bro, thanks for sharing and we’ll be looking forward to your next move.

That is a spectacular failure. Glad you are unharmed. I’m curious as to what the top end looks like as well as a closeup of the pin side of the rods. You build amazing motors. I look forward to the next iteration.

Very cool to see how it all comes apart at the limit. Transparency builds confidence. I’ll be fortunate to be a customer some day 👍🏻

Wow. Great testament to the importance of having a drip/catch pan! I'm with you. It's more amazing and curious that they all broke at the same time than the fact your engine broke.

Sorry to see this happen, Steve, but your outlook on problems such as this is really admirable. Keep up the amazing work!

When your drip pan has dents in it, that can't be good. Lol! 🤣 Those rods were just so excited to get out and have some time to themselves.

What a fantastic stand up guy! I couldnt be more impressed Steve!

Love the video. Like you said stuff happens. I like the fact that the rod manufacturer didn’t blame something, and that y’all will work together to figure out why. It’s so hard to tell, but seems like a material failure. Looking forward to the up dates as you fix the engine and work to figure out what caused it.

Thank you for sharing this Steve! Let's all just be happy that everbody is ok and nobody got hurt.

Your attitude is amazing! Just keep doing what you best!!!

Your attitude brought me joy today! 👊🙏👊🥰

Much Respect ! Sad to see these results , like you said it's racing , stuff breaks , hopefully we can offset some of the cost buying some merch and keep this channel alive and grow ! Glad no one got hurt !

You know what is really amazing though? the block, pan and tray contained everything therefore no oil under the tires and stayed off the wall. Testament to the strength and design of the engine and car. 8 rods eject in one go, stunning.

Dude you’re awesome. Love your attitude towards this

You are a great person.that is a costly engine and parts failure.the best to you.

I think you and Tim McAmis are the best guys to listen to, appreciate the content and depth you go to Steve

Man that track loves to take motors... This brings back memories of the destruction I had at DragWeek 2021. Thanks for showing this because it shows that these unfortunate events happen to even the best of us.

I once lost two pistons on a burnout after a massive coolant leak into two of the cylinders, but that was absolutely nothing, after all I had a 4 banger. Compared to this of course it was a day in the park 😁I am just amazed by the total annihilation of this engine. Only thing I can think of is material weakness and the drop of rpm during shift obviously set it all off. Love your channel Mr Morris. Much love from Norway

You get a thumbs up for attitude Steve. I just had a major break this week. Not an engine. I stayed chill phoned the guy who built it. I said sorry to tell you mate but the shaft broke. He was gutted. I knew he would be. He was more proud of the machine than me and it lasted 2hrs from brand new. Anyhow together we come up with with a great plan to up grade it. It will cost me a bit more as it should but he is fronting the bulk of it. In the end my company will have the only bit of kit like it. Life is as nard as you make it.

Thanks for the Video. I appreciate you showing what happened. I was amazed to see the crank without a rod on it. That has to be the first time I have ever seen that. I also appreciate your response about the rods, it would be easy to point fingers, but it takes a stand up guy to realize stuff happens. It’s part of the game when your pushing the limits of the materials your working with. Big Fan. Thanks

That's pretty cool of you to have the outlook you have about the situation. Most people wouldn't be big enough to do so. Much respect.

Your business ethics are very parallel to mine, and there are very few of us left. I've been in the IT supply business 19 years and have fought off Fortune 100 competitors with honesty and integrity. It is obvious you love your job and love your customers...don't every change that. You are awesome!

Thanks for showing this Steve, just keeping it real.

Steve, thanks for sharing all this with us, and even more, for showing us what it is to be a good person.

Thank you Steve. Seeing you pull the drip tray and your reaction was unreal. I could feel you staring at holes in the pan. This level of destruction is hard to believe. Please show the disassembly. You are a patient and fair man. God bless.

You are a class act Steve! I give you so much credit for trying not to curse. The "I'm not a jerkoff" statement was priceless 🤣 5.90's Let's GO! 👍

Wow, I am just as lost for words as you are. Complete devastation and totally rare to have all 8 rods go at the same time. 8500 rpm and 4000 hp, 40 pounds of boost may require a rod made from a material off an alien planet…… Love your work Steve. Cheers Cammy 🇦🇺

truly incredible work Steve! It completely obliterated them! And you're totally right, no matter what kind of engineering you're doing, stuff's going to break.

I can only imagine the stress and pressure inside of something like that! I really appreciate how you are taking all of this, to be honest. Hopefully this will all help with tweaking some things here and there...hardening/temper on the rods or whatever it happens to be.

I absolutely enjoyed the video especially the part about the sermon on the mound god bless you

Hello Hello From Canada!! WOW I have never seen any rod failure like that. The pistons look like they are suspended in similar spots. If I was an engine pathologist it looks like you got to a certain boost and after each cylinder fired the rods disintegrated one after the other. The rods were probably heat treated incorrectly so they were so brittle, they just shattered after they reached their max load. That is probably a one in a million situation Steve and I would love to buy a piece of that to hang on a key chain. I hope you have much better luck in your future builds. I am so glad the motor didn't seize but more important, you are safe, sound, ready and able to race another day. 🙂

This has quickly become my favorite channel! I wish I could afford one of your engines. But I appreciate what you’ve shown us and I’m definitely using the knowledge. Shirt order coming your way for sure

Simply mind-blowing event!!! You handled this event in a way that very few others could. I'm sure your still trying to get your head around what the hell happened. You have my utmost respect for your ability to stay calm, maybe your still in shock like soany viewers. Best of luck in the future and thanks for the honest videos.

Understatement of the year, "this is a failure!" OH for an internal slow mo view! Seen hundreds of blown motors but none that shucked all 8 rods without pushing the crank out! Heck, even if you happen to run over your crankshaft there's usually a couple rods standing on it to flip you the bird!

Bin around this stuff 60years have NEVER seen a blow up this bad. Your a good man.

Wow! Thanks for going through and showing us all the carnage. It was amazing. Never seen rods do that before either. Look forward to hearing the results of the investigation. Really good video. Thank again!

Well done sharing your faith at a point where many of us would have been highly stressed and upset. You can tell a lot about a man based on how he reacts to difficult circumstances. Build-back-better. We'll see you back soon.

When that oil pan catch tray came out I was like I thought he said there was an oil pan above this not a windage tray 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have been around a lot of mechanical everything. Not pointing fingers, But what are all the heat treat specs. On the crankshaft. Cleeters also. But you never know where your next weakpoint is going to be. Lots of 🐎. You and the Cleetus crew are the beep. Love you guys! And Ste e you've got me wanting to build a 1996 Caprice Wagon. Yours is Badass. Your car and Mullett are my favorites. what's the saying If you ain't bending you ain't sending. Thanks for your through assemblies and disassembles. I have the Fever !!!