I watch this guy's videos occasionally. I think he's actually a member here BTW.
Anyhow he's got this big heavy truck he uses for burnout contests and the like. He gets a stock bottom end magnum 5.9, runs the absolute snot out of it under massive boost, essentially running it to total failure. Dude is running 20 psi on a mostly SBE 5.9.
He details what he does to make them live. Nothing magic, and in fact it's down and dirty to be honest. He changes out the main and rod bolts for arp hardware (no main studs just bolts). He then runs head studs and MLS gaskets.
Line boring the mains? Nope. Honed with torque plates for those studs? Nadda. Dude cleaned up the deck surface with a freaking orbital sander.
Crazy thing is, he's been at it for awhile and has been through several engines, progressively figuring out what's going to fail.
In the video below, the failure point was apparently the stock rod and main bearings. It got me wondering, according to the experts here, what should he have done to prevent this particular failure? Is this an inadequate oil clearance issue? Maybe oil over temperature or wrong viscosity?
This guy is absolutely punishing these motors. Sitting pegged at 20 psi WOT for minutes at a time. 20 psi, on a suitably cammed 5.9 making say 325 hp NA... that's an 800hp motor boys. WOT for minutes at a time!
No race block. No forged fancy stuff. Stock stuff with a sorted out tune on e85.
