3 Ways to Prevent Your Engine from Blowing Up!

In this week's video we discuss the top 3 things that can mean the difference between a happy high performance engine and one that's blown up!

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[ChurchAutoTest]

Can't emphasize the fuel commentary enough. I always tell customers to put a little 100 octane in at the track as insurance on their pump gas cars. Whether its fuel starvation, hot temps, or some other unseen circumstance, a little extra octane is cheap insurance. Also, the effects of g-forces on fuel system performance. There are stock cars that will starve the fuel pump if you run them on race tires (Honda S2000 under 1/2 a tank for example). Recently had a customer with a 4-figure hp V8 setup. Didn't have issues for a long time until he made a full throttle acceleration pass on sticky tires with 1/8 of a tank of fuel in a stock fuel tank. The end result was ugly. First (and probably last) time he ever made a full hit on low fuel.

[ajc]

I Freaking love this guy extremely informative and smiles the entire time!

[loganh]

As a subi owner I greatly appreciate this video

[brandon_buildsDIY]

Once again, Mike is dropping dimes. I feel like I can build engines for a living after watching his instructional videos. Keep ‘em’ coming Mike, so bummed you guys got rid of the B13.

[hankitytankity]

“Don’t overheat!” Amen to that. I’m tempted to install the largest oil and trans coolers but my engine only makes 185hp…..

[az_kgt]

If anything Upgrading your coolant system should be one of your fist mods. Relatively easy to do and basically no downsides.

[byIncarnate]

I could (have?) listen to Mike talk about engines for hours. Great videos!

[notsam]

Couldn't agree more about finding good tuners.
I did business with one of the big ones for Chevy years back and he started telling me all kinds of things that didn't make sense. But with what little I did understand in the data logs I saw the engine pulling huge amounts of timing.
Turns out they were doing exactly that, pumping the boost, advancing the timing and damping the knock control system.
I ended up taking the hptuners license I paid for and doing it myself. It took years of reading and learning and more school to really start understanding things front to back. One thing I've learned is most companies just talk peak power... Rarely is that peak sustainable. The things that made my car faster were not at the peak of the power curve.... They are on both sides of it.
I didn't end up with their peak power numbers, but I did end up with a long lived engine that is incredibly fun to drive.

[philarends]

I love Mike's low pulse matter of fact delivery.

[muasboy]

First thing I do when watching Mike’s video..is survey the cars in the background. They always have gems just chilling in back. Like that Em1 👍

[shilohbear]

I upgrade my cooling system even in my daily driven cars. Here in Oklahoma, no telling when you're gonna be stuck on a smoking hot highway in a traffic jam. And I always install a fan that can be turned on by a switch, cuz I don't trust the computer to not overheat or act up. Better safe than sorry. Operating temp is always best, but cooler is always better than hotter. Same could be said about exhaust as well. A good flowing exhaust disperses heat better, a long with having an air intake that sits outside the engine bay. Breathes better, keeps air temps down, etc. And unless you're going with a monster sized intake tube, it won't lean out enough to matter

[CrAzYtothe]

This man responds to mostly all the comments asking questions. Thats the nicest thing ive ever seen. I appreciate it being able to look at comments and learn more. Cooling def helps. I have a full size rad but only had space for one fan that fits half of it. This makes me want to look into a way to get another fan next to it

[-evl]

Can’t upvote this video enough, the absolute GOAT of engine knowledge! Thanks dad

[rolieg]

Your knowledge and chillin demeanor earned you a sub sir! Great vids man.

[christophersteingart]

I don't race anymore, but I still for drive for a living. I'm a motor courier in Colorado. I just wanted to say thank you for all the valuable information.

[MasterSheep]

Learned the hard way with the fuel part of this video. Ran fine for Dyno pulls. Hit the dunes and after about 5 mins of pushing it hard a fuel injector died and leaned out a cylinder. Currently doing a rebuild 😊

[ianthomson]

Great video, thank you! Heat, knock and oil for anyone that wants the TLDR version - but highly recommend listening to all the possible issues and solutions.

[xxbeejayxx]

Thank you so much for these videos!! I blew my first engine. After these videos I’m confident I won’t make the same mistakes! 🤙🏽💯

[Zquicksilver]

Mike reminds us of the ripple effect, over and over and over, LOL! The amount of info and great advice in this video is overwhelming. 29:00 It's why I trust him... Mike really knows how to squash the "urge to modify" in me, lol. Hats off to all the passionate car enthusiast at there that place the order for that large turbo kit or set of MT drag radials, hahaha. You are about to go down that rabbit hole! ;)

[dennissawin-lwcr]

You have a lot of good information and obviously you know exactly what you are doing.
I'll be listening sir, thank you for sharing your knowledge