While the see through engine exploded, I think it's a perfect demonstration of how much strain the engines in our vehicles can withstand. Fascinating result!
Guys, if you can get a rover K series engine it would be ideal for this, cause the head bolts go though the engine into the main bearing caps. Also lower the compression a lot so the block is not so stressed. It don't need to make power, just run only. Great effort and look forward to the next attempt.
I literally wrote this on someone elses comment before i saw yours, we literally had the exact same idea 🤣. The sandwich block is a rather good idea tbh.
It was the most spectacular engine failure ever. And this shows how big are the forces in an engine and why the engine blocks may and ups broken sometimes even if they are made of cast iron. It was a very educative video. Thank you very much for the show and knowledge.
That's why I laugh when people say "an engine is just like a giant air compressor". But its not even close. The amount of forces and stresses of the machine and how it generates and pushes power is incredible, and there are many physical forces at play beyond just the pistons making power through compression.
@@kingduckford yet millions of them are made every year and a good percent lasted for hundreds of thousands of miles with little or no problem. Amazing, simple amazing.
Dunno why the Debby downers but that was hilarious. I was expecting at least a couple revs but blammo! The expression he had after just explaining how long it took to make was perfect editing lmao
I think the timing was too far advanced, myself. That was probably a backfire. If that was an epoxy block, it’s not as strong, anyway. I would find a solid block of polycarbonate and machine away enough to fit the crank and pistons, and have head bolts that go clean through to the bottom of the block. I would run a stiffener bar around the perimeter of the block, and have the bolts clamp the block to the head, if that makes sense. This was a worthy first attempt. I’ve seen a polycarbonate head on a flathead engine, so this should work. Oh, one other thing! Since it’s definitely not going to be used to power anything, I would lower the compression to around 4:1. If that’s good enough for a flathead, it’ll be more than good enough for this!
I really appreciate your take on a negative result being a significant result. I wish more people understood this more. If you build something and it works the first time, it's cool, but then you move on to something else. If it fails, the interesting part is finding out why it failed. That is even cooler. There is much more to learn about failure. I hope your next design is as interesting! Well done!
His calm acceptance is the hallmark of maturity and a proper engineering attitude. I would have freaked out just for the comedic comedic value while figuring out what failed first. Anything for street theatre. But get it fixed. Fun!
I think combustion was just strong enough to break the clear material used to mount the rotating assembly. You'll have to probably make a central metal carrier for the rotating assembly and then get bolts long enough to reach from the head to that assembly to hold it all together.
I'm surprised he didn't draw more positive attention to the fact that they did indeed achieve and record a power stroke through the windowed block. It's a matter of discovery before our eyes how the material couldn't handle even that much stress. It's a reminder how amazing it is that our metal blocks keep together for so long.
The piston had a power stroke and kept on going. Stresses made by the mounting of everything, this material doesn't have the elasticity of a metal block, stress risers don't work the same, they have to be more gradual and beefier.
This was an impressive episode. The fact that a single combustion cycle occured inside is impressive, given the pressures involved. In the future, these guys could use alon (transparent aluminum) for the engine block, as the material is highly durable. However, it is prohibitively expensive as of 2023.
@@skuula less compression ratio decrease the compression temp and stress. Decrease the combustion temp and power. Perfect to just show the engine running
The pressure in the one single cylinder with the piston is about 180 to 500psi, your car tire is 35psi. Its amazing what the engine does, now get this, in a diesel engine that uses fuel injection for power rather than spark plug, the injector need to overcome the pressure from the piston and on top of that use about another 2000-3000psi to mist the diesel into the compressed air. Its mind blowing.
That looked like a whole lot of work to make that clear block, it looked really nice! At 7:39 you can see an existing crack just above the motor mount. I'm not sure if that crack was significant to the failure, but it certainly didn't help.
@Noirlite at 4:59 its not there, but the crack appears after the first start at 5:11 its a shame a flywheel wasn't used from the start, maybe this wouldn't have broken the drill or the block by absorbing some of the energy.
I'm terribly sorry Vlad, you did your best, the machining was top notch, your crew was very skilled in their fabricating the needed parts to make it work. I love your channel!
This is what I love about this channel. Believe it or not, this is real science. It's about trying everything to find what works and what doesn't. Who else is gonna have the balls to prove what can be done, and what isn't possible? These guys will. Love and respect to the Garage54 team from America
If it dosen't work, then it must make to work. Less pressure, it dosen't need to run a car.. This demonstrates how much some gasoline give force when it ignite. That timing should be maybe little late, to make it loose some power that isn't needed in this project. Did it destroy any of those rubber rings when explode?
@@jannejohansson3383 just from what was visible I'm almost certain that there were gas vapors that accumulated in the crankcase, and they we're ignited in some way. The most likely culprit would he the absence of a head gasket - upon compression stroke one or more cylinders forcing fuel between the block and head into a oil passage into to crankcase, or even into a water jacket and filling the coolant galleries with an explosive mix. In real life, I've only ever seen that type of bottom end destruction on boosted racing engines where the boost controller failed, and started feeding boost to the point that even the crankcase was having to hold 80+ psi. Of course if a controller fails at high rpm the destruction is instantaneous. Even with no PCV system present I simply cannot imagine that level of pressure forming due to the pistons alone. It seems to me that it would require an actual detonation in the crankcase. But, this is all conjecture and maybe they will post an update showing more. Peace
Out of all of your videos, this one had me laughing uncontrollably. Not because you guys failed, but because the shock and unexpected result was insane. Stay crazy my fellow Russians!
The whole side of block had a crack down it before ever starting idk how the guys putting the flywheel and starter on it didn’t see it lol it’s clear as day
Use long head bolts chaps going straight to the crankshaft main bearings to hold it all together it's what rover did with there series engine works great..keep up the good work guys xx
That could be deadly. With the vertical forces taken care of, all that pressure would likely cause the thing to explode horizontally with even more force than we saw here. That guy squatting down beside it would be history.
Yes, this was still worth it 👍 It was a great illustration of the forces placed on the components of an engine. I certainly wasn’t expecting that! It you guys decide to do this again, perhaps it might be possible to modify the design of the engine block to accommodate studs that go all the way through the head and engine block? By the way excellent idea to run rubber O rings instead of steel 👏
I was expecting it to fail, but I figured the cylinder walls would blow out. I wasn't expecting the bottom end to blow off. I think retarding the timing would help as the loads from combustion wouldn't push the crank down so hard like it does at or just before TDC.
And that my friends is why engine blocks are made out of aluminium or cast iron. They have to container an explosion. Peak combustion pressures in the average petrol/gas engine are up to 1500 PSI per cylinder if it’s turbo charged and 1000 PSI for naturally aspirated engines. Modern turbo common rail diesel engines are around 2500 PSI all the way up to 4000 PSI if it’s super tuned diesel. This is why diesel engines are built thicker and stronger and more robust than a petrol/gas engine. There is a lot more stored energy in petroleum oils like diesel or paraffin (kerosene) than in petroleum spirit.
That was basically to be expected, the crankshaft needs to be in a metal girdle and the girdle directly connected to the head with sturdy supports, so the combustion won't shoot the bottom end downward. You would also want a very low compression ratio, since this engine does not (and in fact you don't want it to) output much power at all.
This is a testament to how many different forces aluminum and iron blocks deal with, combustion, centrifugal, transferring that force to the engine mount and transmission, you have the g forces of traveling on and off road, bumps, train tracks, etc.
🤣🤣🤣 I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard in a while. It’s sucks but it was funny as hell. Especially the way he just laid down the cables and was all calm.
Yeah that’s all…. While the whole bottom end is laying in the floor. There’s a reason engines aren’t made of anything but aluminum or iron with steel sleeves.
That shows quite impressive the reaction forces inside the engine block and where no weak points should exist. Now imagine this an engine under high torque output which increases the acting forces on another level.
Yeah, that lasted about as long as I expected it to. Biggest mistake was that a “liquid glass” block was treated the same as a cast iron block, even though the material is substantially weaker. You needed to use way, way more material to even get close to the same strength, but you didn’t. So, of course it was going to break almost instantly. As others have said, it broke a little on the very first puff with the drill.
Also needs way less compression, and some metal straps going around the bottom to hold it against the forces pushing the bottom down. Maybe metal studs going through the glass to reinforce it also.
Exactly, it needs more material, but some parts will be always week due to the design based on cast iron, as the crank shaft mounting points. It needs a substantial redesign, may be a single piston with less compression, thicker walls and some iron studs in the good spots
I would make a rebar or some type of similar reinforcement inside the clear block cast, similar to what's done when reinforcing concrete. I saw other comments here to use really long head bolts to secure crank assembly and reduce compression ratios - that also seems like good ideas! I would try to do all these things to help keep block together.
I swear back when I was studying auto in high school I would day dream about a transparent engine like this. Just because I knew I could read all the curriculum materials, pay close attention to the lectures. Memorize vocabulary, steps and procedures. I could poke all I want at the engine, but until I saw exactly how everything looked on the inside, how an engine worked on the inside, I would never truly learn mechanics the way I needed to. I have to really fundamentally understand how something works before I can truly learn about it. I could memorize how change oil, replace spark plugs, replace an entire exhaust manifold, etc. but the second I get under the hood of a different vehicle, I’d be back at square one. I could only ever memorize how to work on that specific car. A single car at a time. Unless I truly could grasp my mind around how and why an engine works. How each part relates to another. So seeing this, honestly is really cool, I think every auto class should have something like this.
Good that you were wearing Siberian safety glasses for this. Nobody was hurt except the drill, and it was an interesting project. Thank you for your hard work.
The piston moved so quick just off of one bang, some comments have been have been suggesting some things for lower compression and such, hopefully you guys can actually get one to work and get it to run upto a pretty cool rpm! It definitely gives and idea of how much energy is in an engine
That has to hurt. All the work that went in to building it. I would not mind seeing the next one just run with out fuel for a few mins before attempting to start it! Still quite cool!
I remember a few months ago saying I'd love to see a transparent engine block and here we are! Unfortunate that it blew up. Maybe raising the deck to lower compression and retarding the timing a bit would allow it to run instead of blowing up
This is absolutely THE BEST channel on the internet. From the ideas, the production quality, the humor and most importantly, Vlad and his personality / delivery. Great job guys!
I respect for all the hard work you guys put to build this engine,allthow it did not work.....i admire your ambition! Never give up! Your channel is the best on UA-cam!!👏👏👏 All the respect🤝😉
Block has already cracked before fell apart. Maybe you should install crankshaft bearing consoles from iron block and also some long bolts which can hold head... I think that could work... 😁 Anyway, great work!
Came here to note this. Frame-by-frame shows the cracked block down in the skirt area, clearly visible from the right side of the frame at about 7:41. The crack begins to open just before ignition becomes visible, looks like just before TDC in the first cylinder to fire.
The intake, compression, FIRE (didn’t have time for exhaust)part of combustion is when it pushed it right thru the weak glass Pretty fking cool to see this tho
The result is not what you were working towards for sure but, I was hooked thru the project! I feel for you guys for the work you put in to this... You just don't know til you do! Still a great series! Thanks for sharing!!
Damn. I was really hoping to see it run, but I understand that plastic and resin aren't strong enough to handle the forces involved with an internal combustion engine. That was definitely an amazing transparent display piece and I'm sorry it blew up. I don't blame y'all if you guys don't want to make another one. If you do though, I think it should be a display piece to teach young and learning mechanics about how engines work. Maybe with a flywheel and starter along with the distributor and ignition coils, but with no compression or fuel so that it doesn't blow itself apart. You could use a light scratch pattern and LED lights to illuminate the cylinders as they would fire to teach college students and apprentices in the field how an engine works using that transparent block. You might even be able to sell them for profit. Not meant to run, but teach about valves, pistons, and firing order. Anyway still an awesome video that we can all learn something from, and a good idea for teaching future mechanics at least. Sorry to see this one didn't work out.😢 I love you guys and all of the amazing experiments y'all do. Can't wait to see what y'all do with that diesel Lada y'all made.
Awsome! I think for reinforcement, you could also try to insert glass fiber mesh or some iron net. I know that it not be 100% transparent, but it will help, especially in the most stressful parts if the engine. Also i'd like to see a 2-nd antempt for this experiment. Thumbs up! 👏
Keep doing what you do! Success or failure, it's all entertaining and educational! Looked like it had a LOT of compression! Maybe teflon coated rings instead of rubber?-So there's a little loss?Just a suggestion, I'd love to see this run! It's beautiful!
You guys did a great job. A common technique to make the contents transparent is to make something integral out of a material like acrylic. However, that approach faces many challenges such as insufficient strength and cracking. Concentrate on making the contents transparent and you will get more. Recall that reciprocating engines started out as single cylinders, with each of the four cylinders doing independent work, only interlocked through the crank. If you think about each single cylinder, there should be only a limited number of areas you want to make transparent. I think you can achieve your goal by using different materials for the parts of the engine that you want to see and the parts that support the strength of the engine. If you try to make everything transparent, it would be the same effort as building a new engine out of a material that is not strong enough, instead of building a 4-cylinder engine that is transparent in the areas you want to see. That is a distraction from the original goal.
Yeah, exactly what I though. Maybe only the cylinders should be transparent, not the crank case. Maybe with external metal reinforcement it would have worked. Good attempt thou. Engineering failure, but spectacle success !
This is actually a really good example of how a compressed explosion exerts force on the crank and rods and how increasing the pressure via turbo or supercharger wears parts out faster in high hp applications.
if you pause it at 6:58, you can see the cracks re already there. the most apparent is the more right side of the engine below the pistons, almost in line with the main bearings
The thrust bearings should be independently supported with steel up to the head and down to the frame, so all the downward force on the crank isnt pulled through the liquid glass.
I'm not sure if the plastic/resin used is ideal for shock forces. You could try to create deep triangular webbing for the block that will hopefully give it more strength. Possibly cast the main caps so that the bolts go all the way through the block and reinforce the attachment point at the top of the block with steel. This is also a perfect example of why gm uses 4 bolt mains in
You guys are like the mythbusters of engineering
I’d also go as far as to say they’re the engineers of mythbusting 😁
Yes
Russian Mythbusters
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(Android doesn't know how to Russian)
They are better...
his reaction is the best. so calm and collected, like he wasn't surprised it didn't work.
Probably because his employees had done most of the work.
Or he was surprised and didn't know how to react 😂
i think he was in one of russias wars
It's called shock. Takes a minute for your brain to register wtf just happened lol
disasociated
You can see the block crack at 5:09 - with the first try of starting it with a power drill
Good eye
I don’t see it I just see the ignition on cylinder 3
@@mikecorleone6797 I just saw it too!
On the engine mount!
Wow, good catch!
thats what i was about to write...
"A negative result is also a result" man I gotta admire the positivity here ❤
Negative results are waaay more important than people give them credit.
Tons of inventions were built on top of a graveyard of negative results.
While the see through engine exploded, I think it's a perfect demonstration of how much strain the engines in our vehicles can withstand. Fascinating result!
Guys, if you can get a rover K series engine it would be ideal for this, cause the head bolts go though the engine into the main bearing caps. Also lower the compression a lot so the block is not so stressed. It don't need to make power, just run only. Great effort and look forward to the next attempt.
I literally wrote this on someone elses comment before i saw yours, we literally had the exact same idea 🤣.
The sandwich block is a rather good idea tbh.
we told them that when they started this endeavour
You could translate that to Russian and post in the Russian version of this video?
I had one myself ☺️ great engine
@@android584 that is probably 2+ year old
It was the most spectacular engine failure ever. And this shows how big are the forces in an engine and why the engine blocks may and ups broken sometimes even if they are made of cast iron. It was a very educative video. Thank you very much for the show and knowledge.
That's why I laugh when people say "an engine is just like a giant air compressor". But its not even close. The amount of forces and stresses of the machine and how it generates and pushes power is incredible, and there are many physical forces at play beyond just the pistons making power through compression.
@@kingduckford yet millions of them are made every year and a good percent lasted for hundreds of thousands of miles with little or no problem. Amazing, simple amazing.
So true good and bad it's awesome knowledge thank you guys great work
this vid made me understand more when I see those plus 1k engines blown up like this tear apart in half, it seems the crankshaft pulls everything down
@@kingduckford air compressors go under the same amount of stress or even more you just indirectly admitted to not knowing what you are talking about.
The explosion was the funniest thing I've seen from you guys especially when you said how long you have been working on it 😂 Thank you very much!
Kinda sad actually
@@gabrielv.4358 Agree. Not funny at all.
@@SoddingaboutSi What did you expect? Epoxy is brittle AF.
We should be grateful that Vlad still has his eyes.
Dunno why the Debby downers but that was hilarious. I was expecting at least a couple revs but blammo! The expression he had after just explaining how long it took to make was perfect editing lmao
I think the timing was too far advanced, myself.
That was probably a backfire.
If that was an epoxy block, it’s not as strong, anyway.
I would find a solid block of polycarbonate and machine away enough to fit the crank and pistons, and have head bolts that go clean through to the bottom of the block.
I would run a stiffener bar around the perimeter of the block, and have the bolts clamp the block to the head, if that makes sense.
This was a worthy first attempt.
I’ve seen a polycarbonate head on a flathead engine, so this should work.
Oh, one other thing!
Since it’s definitely not going to be used to power anything, I would lower the compression to around 4:1.
If that’s good enough for a flathead, it’ll be more than good enough for this!
I really appreciate your take on a negative result being a significant result. I wish more people understood this more. If you build something and it works the first time, it's cool, but then you move on to something else. If it fails, the interesting part is finding out why it failed. That is even cooler. There is much more to learn about failure. I hope your next design is as interesting! Well done!
His calm acceptance is the hallmark of maturity and a proper engineering attitude.
I would have freaked out just for the comedic comedic value while figuring out what failed first.
Anything for street theatre. But get it fixed. Fun!
I think combustion was just strong enough to break the clear material used to mount the rotating assembly. You'll have to probably make a central metal carrier for the rotating assembly and then get bolts long enough to reach from the head to that assembly to hold it all together.
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I agree. The compression it created was to strong for that bottom. Need somewhere for the compressed air to escape
These guys seem pretty cool. Their positivity, ambition and perseverance are as impressive as their creative ideas like this one.
Get off they’re dick and just watch the video….
I'm surprised he didn't draw more positive attention to the fact that they did indeed achieve and record a power stroke through the windowed block. It's a matter of discovery before our eyes how the material couldn't handle even that much stress. It's a reminder how amazing it is that our metal blocks keep together for so long.
The piston had a power stroke and kept on going.
Stresses made by the mounting of everything, this material doesn't have the elasticity of a metal block, stress risers don't work the same, they have to be more gradual and beefier.
My diesel engine on my works VW caddy died like that, loud bang, wheels seized up, open hood, steam and oil everywhere, close hood and call for help
This was an impressive episode. The fact that a single combustion cycle occured inside is impressive, given the pressures involved. In the future, these guys could use alon (transparent aluminum) for the engine block, as the material is highly durable. However, it is prohibitively expensive as of 2023.
@@darrellcook8253 it also had the flywheel/ring gear which acted as a reaction to the piston
Why is it surprising that metal can withstand that?
It needs two metalic structures to support the crankshaft and decrease the compression ratio to work 👍
Yeah and is there a low temperature fuel? Other than any fuel, way rich.
@@skuula less compression ratio decrease the compression temp and stress. Decrease the combustion temp and power. Perfect to just show the engine running
Thread bar from main cap to head.
And much thicker walls for structural integrity :D
Yes
Wow I’m sorry to see the results after so much hard work. Just goes to show how much strength an engine has. Very impressive.
And think about the forces on high performance drag engines. With turbos, no2, etc increasing the pressures
@@donaldduck9493 mind blowing. What is capable of creating the human being
The pressure in the one single cylinder with the piston is about 180 to 500psi, your car tire is 35psi. Its amazing what the engine does, now get this, in a diesel engine that uses fuel injection for power rather than spark plug, the injector need to overcome the pressure from the piston and on top of that use about another 2000-3000psi to mist the diesel into the compressed air. Its mind blowing.
That looked like a whole lot of work to make that clear block, it looked really nice! At 7:39 you can see an existing crack just above the motor mount. I'm not sure if that crack was significant to the failure, but it certainly didn't help.
@Noirlite at 4:59 its not there, but the crack appears after the first start at 5:11 its a shame a flywheel wasn't used from the start, maybe this wouldn't have broken the drill or the block by absorbing some of the energy.
i love how you can actually see it fire at the top just before it blows apart. the force that it develops was simply too much
Really
No shit?
Well yea it was too much. Too much compression and pressure for er
It had a big crack through it before he kicked it over, look close.
Well spotted, looks like it starts where one of the bolts for the frame was fitted. @@gamerdrive5565
I'm terribly sorry Vlad, you did your best, the machining was top notch, your crew was very skilled in their fabricating the needed parts to make it work. I love your channel!
This is what I love about this channel. Believe it or not, this is real science. It's about trying everything to find what works and what doesn't. Who else is gonna have the balls to prove what can be done, and what isn't possible? These guys will. Love and respect to the Garage54 team from America
It's priceless for thinking people. Teaches those who wants too be taught.
Couldn’t have said it better myself Daniel.
It's "seat of the pants engineering".
If it dosen't work, then it must make to work.
Less pressure, it dosen't need to run a car..
This demonstrates how much some gasoline give force when it ignite.
That timing should be maybe little late, to make it loose some power that isn't needed in this project.
Did it destroy any of those rubber rings when explode?
@@jannejohansson3383 just from what was visible I'm almost certain that there were gas vapors that accumulated in the crankcase, and they we're ignited in some way. The most likely culprit would he the absence of a head gasket - upon compression stroke one or more cylinders forcing fuel between the block and head into a oil passage into to crankcase, or even into a water jacket and filling the coolant galleries with an explosive mix.
In real life, I've only ever seen that type of bottom end destruction on boosted racing engines where the boost controller failed, and started feeding boost to the point that even the crankcase was having to hold 80+ psi. Of course if a controller fails at high rpm the destruction is instantaneous.
Even with no PCV system present I simply cannot imagine that level of pressure forming due to the pistons alone. It seems to me that it would require an actual detonation in the crankcase. But, this is all conjecture and maybe they will post an update showing more.
Peace
Out of all of your videos, this one had me laughing uncontrollably. Not because you guys failed, but because the shock and unexpected result was insane. Stay crazy my fellow Russians!
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The whole side of block had a crack down it before ever starting idk how the guys putting the flywheel and starter on it didn’t see it lol it’s clear as day
The most patient man alive. God bless his soul!
Thanks for sharing this. I can only imagine how many hours went into this.👍
you thought that you couldn't make a transparent engine block you thought wrong
Use long head bolts chaps going straight to the crankshaft main bearings to hold it all together it's what rover did with there series engine works great..keep up the good work guys xx
That could be deadly. With the vertical forces taken care of, all that pressure would likely cause the thing to explode horizontally with even more force than we saw here. That guy squatting down beside it would be history.
@@KenFullman Don't squat down beside it. Simple. I wouldn't be anyway lol
And yet they r still garbage! Imagine that huh 🤷
Yes, this was still worth it 👍 It was a great illustration of the forces placed on the components of an engine. I certainly wasn’t expecting that! It you guys decide to do this again, perhaps it might be possible to modify the design of the engine block to accommodate studs that go all the way through the head and engine block? By the way excellent idea to run rubber O rings instead of steel 👏
Yup! Main caps are important. Clamp them!
I was expecting it to fail, but I figured the cylinder walls would blow out. I wasn't expecting the bottom end to blow off.
I think retarding the timing would help as the loads from combustion wouldn't push the crank down so hard like it does at or just before TDC.
And that my friends is why engine blocks are made out of aluminium or cast iron. They have to container an explosion. Peak combustion pressures in the average petrol/gas engine are up to 1500 PSI per cylinder if it’s turbo charged and 1000 PSI for naturally aspirated engines. Modern turbo common rail diesel engines are around 2500 PSI all the way up to 4000 PSI if it’s super tuned diesel. This is why diesel engines are built thicker and stronger and more robust than a petrol/gas engine. There is a lot more stored energy in petroleum oils like diesel or paraffin (kerosene) than in petroleum spirit.
This and the mount was attached to the block and the head which ripped it apart, it should have proper mounts
Throw a rod or sometimes throw all the rods.
That was basically to be expected, the crankshaft needs to be in a metal girdle and the girdle directly connected to the head with sturdy supports, so the combustion won't shoot the bottom end downward. You would also want a very low compression ratio, since this engine does not (and in fact you don't want it to) output much power at all.
This is a testament to how many different forces aluminum and iron blocks deal with, combustion, centrifugal, transferring that force to the engine mount and transmission, you have the g forces of traveling on and off road, bumps, train tracks, etc.
Man, my heart sank when I saw it blowing up. I cannot imagine how much work this endevour took, but thanks for showing it to us!
Shows just how much stress a motor is under 👍
Makes you appreciate the properties of iron and aluminium.
Just imagine how much stress a blown drag engine is under or a high performance diesel.
@@jesusisalive3227 Using carefully selected solid blocks of high-grade metal that are CNC machined... and even then they don't always stay together!
Makes me appreciate the durability of the 60 years old rr56 hiduminium rods in my old triumph
or how much energy is in petrol
🤣🤣🤣 I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard in a while. It’s sucks but it was funny as hell. Especially the way he just laid down the cables and was all calm.
THe timing belt just feel appart.
Yeah that’s all…. While the whole bottom end is laying in the floor. There’s a reason engines aren’t made of anything but aluminum or iron with steel sleeves.
@@38911bytefree apart maybe? And no, it was just thrown off..
That shows quite impressive the reaction forces inside the engine block and where no weak points should exist. Now imagine this an engine under high torque output which increases the acting forces on another level.
That was a loud bang! There was a huge crack in it and then it pulled apart at first bang. crazy to see that!
Yeah, that lasted about as long as I expected it to.
Biggest mistake was that a “liquid glass” block was treated the same as a cast iron block, even though the material is substantially weaker. You needed to use way, way more material to even get close to the same strength, but you didn’t. So, of course it was going to break almost instantly. As others have said, it broke a little on the very first puff with the drill.
Also needs way less compression, and some metal straps going around the bottom to hold it against the forces pushing the bottom down. Maybe metal studs going through the glass to reinforce it also.
Mr fucking obvious over here thinking is Mr fucking knows it all 😂
Exactly, it needs more material, but some parts will be always week due to the design based on cast iron, as the crank shaft mounting points. It needs a substantial redesign, may be a single piston with less compression, thicker walls and some iron studs in the good spots
I'm glad you have stayed transparent on the issues you've had along the way.
I would make a rebar or some type of similar reinforcement inside the clear block cast, similar to what's done when reinforcing concrete.
I saw other comments here to use really long head bolts to secure crank assembly and reduce compression ratios - that also seems like good ideas! I would try to do all these things to help keep block together.
Yea! Concrete..... engine block..... it's all the same!...... NOT
they need to do it with a boxer engine design, like the old vw bugs
Good idea. Less compression ratio and some reinforcement like glass fiber
@@walasiewicz some plastic materials have a good reinforcement like carbon fiber and glass fiber.
"You would make" 😂😂
Course you would , put your video up then . . .
"Charmin Double Soft is extra soft" ad following the bang was a nice touch 🤣
I swear back when I was studying auto in high school I would day dream about a transparent engine like this. Just because I knew I could read all the curriculum materials, pay close attention to the lectures. Memorize vocabulary, steps and procedures. I could poke all I want at the engine, but until I saw exactly how everything looked on the inside, how an engine worked on the inside, I would never truly learn mechanics the way I needed to. I have to really fundamentally understand how something works before I can truly learn about it. I could memorize how change oil, replace spark plugs, replace an entire exhaust manifold, etc. but the second I get under the hood of a different vehicle, I’d be back at square one. I could only ever memorize how to work on that specific car. A single car at a time. Unless I truly could grasp my mind around how and why an engine works. How each part relates to another. So seeing this, honestly is really cool, I think every auto class should have something like this.
Even with the outcome, I’m still completely impressed with how the motor came out! Keep up the awesome content!
Ok that was epic and the reaction was priceless. Bravo
Good that you were wearing Siberian safety glasses for this.
Nobody was hurt except the drill, and it was an interesting project. Thank you for your hard work.
I love how the power drill broke she could take the stress of starting that motor
Stellar, really didn't expect that outcome. Gonna have to connect that main bearing to the uppers. And beef up the thickness.
I really enjoyed watching your attempt.
I hope you are not discouraged. A success seems reachable.
5:28 That look of “Did that really just happen??” 😂
The piston moved so quick just off of one bang, some comments have been have been suggesting some things for lower compression and such, hopefully you guys can actually get one to work and get it to run upto a pretty cool rpm! It definitely gives and idea of how much energy is in an engine
Have been have been........
I love their philosophy of just get it done and make it work.
but they dont quite hit the mark, going to be even harder now
I like it that they believe in practical tests rather than theorising.
They don't use an engineering approach. It makes for great viewing though.
The translator inflecting up at the end of phrases 😂😂😂 "it's quite nice?"
What an awesome attitude... It didn't go as planned, oh well, no big deal! It did look cool with the pistons going up and down...
I'm going to say that was a partial success. It did appear to start and run, albeit a split second to a second. So I will say it was a success.
That has to hurt. All the work that went in to building it. I would not mind seeing the next one just run with out fuel for a few mins before attempting to start it! Still quite cool!
There was a huge crack by where it was mounted on the rig before it blew huge weakspot hard to see but such a shame man excellent effort as usual guys
Thanks for attempting, demonstrating, something I can only think of , let alone time and money, hats off
I wasn’t the biggest car guy growing up but recently I’ve been interested in the mechanics of it and stuff like this is amazing
I remember a few months ago saying I'd love to see a transparent engine block and here we are!
Unfortunate that it blew up.
Maybe raising the deck to lower compression and retarding the timing a bit would allow it to run instead of blowing up
This is absolutely THE BEST channel on the internet. From the ideas, the production quality, the humor and most importantly, Vlad and his personality / delivery. Great job guys!
Vlad's complete lack of reaction is the best part of this video 😂
They did a great job on this. So much work for not even 1 revolution.
,,We put so much work în to this, this has to work''💥💥
U NEVER fail to amaze me. This one is truly inspiring.
I respect for all the hard work you guys put to build this engine,allthow it did not work.....i admire your ambition! Never give up! Your channel is the best on UA-cam!!👏👏👏 All the respect🤝😉
Block has already cracked before fell apart. Maybe you should install crankshaft bearing consoles from iron block and also some long bolts which can hold head... I think that could work... 😁
Anyway, great work!
Bearing consoles? Wtf are you even talking about? Do you even know?
Came here to note this. Frame-by-frame shows the cracked block down in the skirt area, clearly visible from the right side of the frame at about 7:41. The crack begins to open just before ignition becomes visible, looks like just before TDC in the first cylinder to fire.
The intake, compression, FIRE (didn’t have time for exhaust)part of combustion is when it pushed it right thru the weak glass
Pretty fking cool to see this tho
"We've put so much work into this..."
First combustion event blows the bottom right out of her. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great attempt! Keep this kind of projects coming please.
Went as I expected. Big Thumbs Up for this magnificent experiment and all the work you put in it!!!
The result is not what you were working towards for sure but, I was hooked thru the project! I feel for you guys for the work you put in to this... You just don't know til you do! Still a great series! Thanks for sharing!!
well he did say that a transparent engine block wouldn't last as long as a steel engine block and he was correct about that
that was pretty cool ngl. not even mad it didn’t run. legendary explosion
I wanted to see this run real bad! You guys will persevere next time!
Damn. I was really hoping to see it run, but I understand that plastic and resin aren't strong enough to handle the forces involved with an internal combustion engine. That was definitely an amazing transparent display piece and I'm sorry it blew up. I don't blame y'all if you guys don't want to make another one. If you do though, I think it should be a display piece to teach young and learning mechanics about how engines work. Maybe with a flywheel and starter along with the distributor and ignition coils, but with no compression or fuel so that it doesn't blow itself apart. You could use a light scratch pattern and LED lights to illuminate the cylinders as they would fire to teach college students and apprentices in the field how an engine works using that transparent block. You might even be able to sell them for profit. Not meant to run, but teach about valves, pistons, and firing order. Anyway still an awesome video that we can all learn something from, and a good idea for teaching future mechanics at least. Sorry to see this one didn't work out.😢 I love you guys and all of the amazing experiments y'all do. Can't wait to see what y'all do with that diesel Lada y'all made.
You guys are the best!!!
i admire the amount of work you and your crew do these experiments particularly this one; shame it did not run for long.Love your channel!
This was an amazing experiment. Thank you and greetings from Germany to the heroes of crazy engineering!🇩🇪🤝
shout out to all the efforts you made. it's still an impressive work.
That was spectacular. 107% success.
Awsome! I think for reinforcement, you could also try to insert glass fiber mesh or some iron net. I know that it not be 100% transparent, but it will help, especially in the most stressful parts if the engine. Also i'd like to see a 2-nd antempt for this experiment. Thumbs up! 👏
I was thinking about the same thing, mesh would distubute the stress more evenly
even though that wasnt the result i think you and most people were expecting, still one of the coolest videos you guys have ever done
To be honest it was pretty cool the way it structurally failed. Lets you appreciate the considerable forces involved on a combustion engine.
that was so cool to watch. Thank you for all your hard efforts, even for such a catastrophic result. What you do is truly a form of art.
Keep doing what you do! Success or failure, it's all entertaining and educational! Looked like it had a LOT of compression! Maybe teflon coated rings instead of rubber?-So there's a little loss?Just a suggestion, I'd love to see this run! It's beautiful!
The flat top pistons are providing too much compression. They need to use dished pistons.
Wow!!!!! How long did it take to build?? Will you try again?
Better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all! 😊
You know they're going to try this again with a stronger transparent block. Thanks for sharing your work guys
It worked great. The block just couldn't support the pressures. Just before the failure, you can see the ignition! Fantastic.
6:52 average Subaru engine lifespan
In conclusion:
No, you can't have a transparent engine
Trzeba bylo zastosowac wzmocnienie kadluba z metalu przy misce olejowej.
the first combustion stroke kills it. dope the material with graphene
That's a heartbreaker. So much work down the drain in less than a second. What we need is that "transparent aluminum" from Star Trek.
"I mean we have have put so much work into this, it HAS to start!"
*Engine vine-booms*
Wow so much work gone in an instant. Great demonstration of the power of combustion!
the laugh of my morning after a bad day working on a car yesterday. 😂😂😂😂
I never see something like this. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Romania.
You guys did a great job.
A common technique to make the contents transparent is to make something integral out of a material like acrylic.
However, that approach faces many challenges such as insufficient strength and cracking.
Concentrate on making the contents transparent and you will get more.
Recall that reciprocating engines started out as single cylinders, with each of the four cylinders doing independent work, only interlocked through the crank.
If you think about each single cylinder, there should be only a limited number of areas you want to make transparent. I think you can achieve your goal by using different materials for the parts of the engine that you want to see and the parts that support the strength of the engine.
If you try to make everything transparent, it would be the same effort as building a new engine out of a material that is not strong enough, instead of building a 4-cylinder engine that is transparent in the areas you want to see. That is a distraction from the original goal.
Yeah, exactly what I though. Maybe only the cylinders should be transparent, not the crank case. Maybe with external metal reinforcement it would have worked.
Good attempt thou. Engineering failure, but spectacle success !
Great effort , you should be proud. It's impressive your technical skills.
His reaction was hilarious. He just sat there in disbelief lolol
This is actually a really good example of how a compressed explosion exerts force on the crank and rods and how increasing the pressure via turbo or supercharger wears parts out faster in high hp applications.
My heartiest sympathies with you after seeing the blast I felt broken myself. :(
if you pause it at 6:58, you can see the cracks re already there. the most apparent is the more right side of the engine below the pistons, almost in line with the main bearings
I'm baffled that he didn't even wear eye protection XD That is pure engineer right there.
Oh wow!! This is amazing! Thank you for trying! Please keep at it.
The thrust bearings should be independently supported with steel up to the head and down to the frame, so all the downward force on the crank isnt pulled through the liquid glass.
I'm not sure if the plastic/resin used is ideal for shock forces. You could try to create deep triangular webbing for the block that will hopefully give it more strength. Possibly cast the main caps so that the bolts go all the way through the block and reinforce the attachment point at the top of the block with steel.
This is also a perfect example of why gm uses 4 bolt mains in
The Chevy LS V8 uses 6 bolt mains.
Well, that was still bad ass!!! And wow, what a lot of work. Good work.