With knock sensors and other such tech features packed into modern engines, somebody outside the field might expect failures to be nearly impossible. Alas, even the quickest tech analysis shows this is far from the true. As a result, every now and then, there's one project car owner out there who has to mourn his or her engine.
The most recent example of this comes from the piece of footage below, which shows an extreme build being wasted. We're dealing with a Fox Body Mustang that has been taken down the twin-turbo route.
The machine is strapped to a dyno and asked to pull the mandatory run, but its V8 decides it's time to give up instead of showing the level it has reached with the help of forced induction.
As you'll be able to see in the video, the engine was gifted with a set of massive turbos, so we're talking about a seriously quick piece of 'Stang here.
Sure, when one starts building such an extreme drag racing vehicle, the possibility of an engine failure has to be taken into account, but this doesn't make the event any less painful when it occurs.
Luckily, this wasn't one of those blow-up moments that see an engine giving up the "internal" part of its combustion process. Remember when we showed you one of Brazil's fastest cars, a turbo Volkswagen Gol, going through a similar incident? The Gol's engine exploded due to a block failure, causing considerably more damage than what we see with this Ford.
Even so, the soundtrack of the dyno run we have here is enough to get one into a bad mood, as the delicious boost sound is followed by the engine's last cry. It's easy to associate the latter with the sound of an imaginary engine whose combustion process would involve dollar bills and compressed air.
In his quest to bring you the most impressive automotive creations, Andrei relies on learning as a superpower. There's quite a bit of room in the garage that is this aficionado's heart, so factory-condition classics and widebody contraptions with turbos poking through the hood can peacefully coexist. Full profile
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