I Built a 1500HP Big Block Mustang for Burnouts
**Building the Ultimate Burnout Car: A Step-by-Step Journey**
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### Introduction: The Challenge of Australian Burnout Competitions
In the world of car enthusiasts, burnouts are more than just a fun activity—they’re a test of skill, creativity, and engineering. While many car lovers enjoy burnouts for the thrill, in Australia, it’s taken to another level. Down under, burnout competitions are serious business. These drivers don’t just enjoy burning rubber; they build custom cars designed to leave everyone else in the dust. They push the boundaries of performance, style, and innovation, and they’re setting a high bar for the rest of us.
But here’s the thing: we’re not backing down. We decided it was time to create our own burnout car that could hold its own against the best of Australia. And this is where my latest project comes in—a 2017 Ford Mustang with a 2.3L EcoBoost engine. Last time, when we tried something similar, things didn’t end well for the engine. But this time around, we’re determined to transform it into an absolute burnout machine.
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### Tearing It Down: The First Steps
The journey began with tearing down the car. We knew we had to go back to basics—using what we know and trust. This meant working with a tough, reliable chassis that could handle the power we were about to unleash. Our plan was clear: replace the EcoBoost engine with something bigger, badder, and more powerful—a big block V8 with a supercharger.
The first step was removing the airbox. It wasn’t pretty, but it had to be done. Exhaust headers came next, and then the carrier bearing. We carefully pulled out the engine, inch by inch, making sure not to drop it on the front clip of the Mustang—a fate we narrowly avoided. The challenge was real: fitting a Chevrolet motor into a Ford car isn’t straightforward, especially when dealing with mismatched engine mounts.
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### Finding the Right Engine
With the hole for the big block now ready, we set out to find the perfect engine. We settled on a 454 Big Block V8, which we pulled from a wrecked truck. The truck’s life may have been over, but its engine was about to get a new lease on life in our burnout car.
The process of extracting the engine wasn’t easy. We had to unbolt everything, including the transmission and drivetrain, to get it out cleanly. It took some finesse, but we managed to pull the beast out without damaging anything else.
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### Fitting the Engine: A Test of Skill
Fitting the 454 Big Block into the Mustang was no small feat. We knew Chevrolet motors don’t fit seamlessly into Ford cars, so we had to create an adapter plate to make it work. This involved measuring, cutting, and welding parts together to ensure everything aligned perfectly.
The moment we dropped the engine into place, we were nervous but confident. The motor mounts held tight, and the engine settled into position like it belonged there. It was a triumph of engineering and perseverance.
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### Preparing for Power: Fuel Systems and Headers
With the engine in place, the next step was setting up the fuel system. This time around, we went with complete mechanical fuel injection, which would allow us to run alcohol and push 10-12 pounds of boost through the supercharger. The motor we had on hand might have been a junkyard find, but it was about to get a second life as a high-performance beast.
Headers were next. We initially tried using some long-tube headers from a Camaro, but they didn’t fit the Mustang’s frame. Instead of giving up, we decided to custom-make them from stainless steel—a process that took weeks but was worth every minute. The result? Headers that fit perfectly and added an impressive touch to the car’s aggressive look.
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### Final Touches: Exterior and Interior Upgrades
Once the engine was in place and everything was plumbed, it was time for some finishing touches. We swapped out the Mustang’s factory wheels for a set of custom rims with chunky tires—a decision that gave the car an even more aggressive stance. However, this meant we needed fender flares to accommodate the wide rear. bushwhacker was added to make sure everything looked cohesive.
Inside, we kept things simple—just a steering wheel and some basic gauges. The focus was on getting the car ready for burnouts, not on luxury or comfort.
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### Testing the Beast: A Nail-Biting Moment
Finally, it was time to see if all our hard work paid off. We poured in the fuel, connected everything, and hit the starter button. For a moment, nothing happened, but then, with a roar, the engine came to life. It was deafening—exactly what we wanted.
We couldn’t resist hitting the throttle and letting the car burn rubber for the first time. The supercharger whine mixed with the V8 growl was pure perfection. But as we pushed it harder, things started going sideways—or rather, under water. It turned out the intake had sucked in a significant amount of water during the test run, leaving us with a totaled engine.
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### Reflections and Future Plans
Despite the setback, we’re not discouraged. The car was only supposed to be a temporary build, anyway. We’ve already got plans for the next iteration—one that won’t involve this particular engine. For now, we’ll take a break, regroup, and come back stronger than ever.
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### Conclusion: A Labor of Love
Building this burnout car wasn’t just about creating something fast and loud—it was about pushing boundaries and proving that even in the face of challenges, anything is possible with enough determination and skill. Whether it’s Australian burnout competitions or our own backyard, we’re ready to take on the challenge—and this time, we’ll do it right.
Stay tuned for the next chapter in this story—because when it comes to burnouts, we’re just getting started.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enAustralian burnout competition guys I've always thought I did epic burnouts but on the bottom of the world in a place called Australia they do burnouts a little bit differently because for them it's not just something they do for fun it's a competition it's a sport it's a test of who can take and build the biggest baddest big block blowed cars in the world and who can burn Rubber with the most style and here's the thing guys they're kind of putting us to shame and I just can't let that happen and that right there is where I bring this bad boy I bought another 2.3 l EcoBoost Mustang now you guys might remember what happened the last EcoBoost Mustang we bought something kind of similar is going to happen to this one she's going to go from a meekan mild four cylinder that does I mean I don't know what it does it does something to being a absolute burnout Master that's enough of that let's go tear this thing apart woohoo the thing is when we decided to do a burnout car we had to go back to the things we know what we're working with we know how to make the power steering work we know how to make the rear end work and these are really tough cars so we're going to throw a big block with a supercharger in there we're going to have a lot of torque a lot of power we need something that's going to hold up and these cars seem to do pretty good so dude this thing going to be good imagine big old blower sticking out of the hood big old scoop on top of that making all kinds of big V8 noises for science we got to figure out exactly what this thing sounds like without the exhaust so oh got it okay here D over the car it sounds like a pissed off lawn mower oh my God 3 2 1 I think we should put it down on the ground see if it does better burnouts with this oh yeah for sure oh no I think we blew it up bad oh dude we screwed the anybody want to buy a previously used 2.3 l EcoBoost motor it's for sale not on sale we'll pull it out for you guys it'll be on a pallet ready to go it's a good running motor hey put it Park give it a good rep for the people yeah yeah it's fce it's a good motor R Great okay back into the shop we got to go ahead and tear it apart I mean it's it's broken now we've got to tear it apart well I will admit it's a lot more work pushing them in when we blow them up but it's a whole lot more fun blowing them up howo airbox goodbye air box see you oh that's an exhaust that's hot Drop the carrier bearing pull this bad boy out we're just pulling this engine right on out of here baby right we'll have to go up pull it forward and then kind of go up with it go up with it smidgen there we go keep going watch this hold on stop it's get it's not hooked on this side go back down keep going oh back up back up keep going there he goes woo he got her every about stand back when I say you got to be really smooth with this you got to be really smooth or it might lose this thing off keep it nice go keep going keep going keep going boom she pulled out it was barely on yeah the same thing on that side like it was just like barely on there we was one little breeze away from dropping a godd dang motor on the front clip of a Mustang all right so here's the deal we've got a big hole ready for a big engine now all we need to do is go find the big engine this a big old engine this right here is a 454 Big Block and uh all we got to do now is get it out of this wrecked truck put a couple parts on it make it a little beautiful and then stuff it in our burnout car first things first let's go ahead and pull it to town get to the shop oh my god did I back into that guy back there now you're good go ahead hey hold the brakes okay what off the brakes here we go fire up with a rip oh my God sh off not even no exhaust weaks are nothing no lift or TI she is ready for the burn outness that she's getting ready to experience dude it's actually really sad that we got to tear with this truck apart but she's got a bent frame so literally this the end of this truck's life it's okay you're donating your heart to a good cause all right where's the zos at woo did you cut through the goddamn windshield wiper flood hey it was just in the way okay excuse me paron me coming through oh almost had it got it there we go everything is out of the way all we got to do now is unbolt the engine the transmission the drive line and get this bad boy pulled right on out of here just the way you like it here's what's happening right now if you didn't know Chevrolet motors don't fit very good into Ford cars now here's the thing I've got an engine motor mount for Chevy I've got a Chevy motor a Ford car some plate a welder a grinder I should be able to figure out how to put this in there with just a little bit of science let me see let me see your equation four plates to back ass like you already said it wrong you can't be screwing up science why can't you write it right I do right right you got to read it Forward plate to back didn't didn't write that right did I now all I got to do is measure everything cut everything weld it all back together and then put it in the car and see if I got it right I know what you guys might be wondering what is this big Contraption I've built and what it is is an adapter plate to adapt the Sherway motor mounts that go underneath our 454 like that into the Mustang's K member so basically all we got to do is drop this bad boy in just like that bolt it down and then we can throw the engine in the car we'll slam it in there drop it in it'll be perfect right in the middle right where it needs to be everything works like that every time every single it's not like we've had this in here like four times already trying to figure out and make sure the motor mounts are right I mean we know it fits now 3 2 1 oh we're Hing some things okay oh she going right in baby oh keep going oh okay hold on now hold on now dude she might just fall right in really oh my God almost like we knew what we was doing look it's not even crooked or nothing how do I do oh oh she's even lined up maybe we got to make sure she's nice and high so we got a 2in spacer to go underneath the blower gosh she going to look so good boom she is landed baby so what we're going to do now is we got the blower on we're going to take and put the Hat on top of that we'll figure out all the fuel lines we got to put the fuel pump on it got to put the pulley on the front the belt and then she's basically ready to start up it's not it goes on like this right uh I mean kind of oh she looks so good oh my God look at her so this is a completely different system for what we used last time because this here is complete mechanical fuel injection so we're going to run alcohol in it we'll probably push like 10 12 lbs of boost this poor little junkyard motor who's got a razor blade dude the guy is over at Aly Digger you just handed me a 3 million chevres oh damn it's the key to this box too I don't know what that is is that's a throttle cable or the shutdown cable what is that what the hell is that does it go in there no it don't made damn sense how the hell does that work here does that go on there this goes this goes on there no no I don't know how this works sure this is a professional shop we know exactly what we're doing here my good friend is holding the ignition coil oh wait all right so I think we've got this figured out basically where' it go this goes onto here which holds the pump then we take and put the pump so yeah we got this figured out D look it fits we got the belt on there we got the pulley on the top the bottom the fuel pump fits the fuel pump belt is on it's a frostbite thing that Hol sent out to us this thing going to be so cold that it's never going to overheat so while I'm putting the water pump on he's actually pulling the studs out of the head so we can put the new headers on and uh everybody cross your fingers because there's a 90% chance we're going to break at least five I'm pretty sure I'm just choking a cancer stricken duck quack quack quack well problem guys I think we got to take the motor out to get the distributor in it took us a while but we got the distributor fit now we got to see if the cap will fit right there baby there we go she's ready to rock and roll get some spark plug wires on there put some spark plugs in it then we'll put the headers on it dude look at the long tubes we got hooker long tube headers in here and these are for like a 69 or 67 Camaro I'm not even sure but hopefully they fit 2017 Ford Mustangs they didn't fit we might have to take the steering out just to even get it in there Co sensor oil filter steering all the wayed now it should thing is once we get it in there we can actually put the stuff back just get it in there a new problem the brakes are inting it do we take brakes off too we can try your we can try your thing and like try the engine okay I got it get in there go you know a jack might be good oh wait a minute hold on now wait hold on did that almost fit pretty close bro that kind that kind of remember how I said them headers was almost getting ready to fit I was lying so we bought a complete set to make a custom set of headers from stainless head.com it took a week but they're done and they work and they'll probably be perfect let's move on to better things because I just want this car to go oh look at that look at it it looks so good all right you want to weld it in we got all that done but now look at this Holly sent us some shiny valve covers I don't know look we got shiny valve covers we're going to put them on the engine oh God they look so good I wasn't sure about them because they look like the vintage ones like from the ' 60s and 7s but they just look so freaking good all right guys here's the thing the last week we've got a lot done on this car we got the fuel system done the wiring done the Transmissions plumbed we got oil coolers on both sides now so we got an oil cooler and a trans cooler so I guess all we need to do now is pour some fuel in it throw the front bumper on try to crank it and see if it either blows up or goes dude this thing going to look good snap on the sides dude we completely transformed this thing it looks good before we start it up we got one more thing we need to put onto it okay bye-bye Mustang wheel hello new shiny wheel oh dude look how good it looks dude this thing is chunky when I ordered it I wanted the back tire to be fat but look at that thing that's like oh oh damn oh maybe I got a little bit too chunky with the B oh my God we're going to need a fender flare for this thing look how much it sticks out we're going to have to put a freaking bushwhacker on this bad boy maybe I got a little bit wild with order in the nitos oh it just looks stupid it looks so bad the front looks real good look at it the big block brings it down to the point just lowered almost the back doesn't look good I'll be honest the back doesn't look good at oh holy all right you got the start button you got the fire extinguisher yes sir all right and Micah just just make sure it doesn't blow up don't blow up oh she made a b bang dude that's close bro that starter is not happy oh woo yeah she got something that's going the right way now yeah we're going the right way woo yeah you hear that right there's power trying to esape out the exhaust you feel alive let's hit the dance Flor don't wait till my break a back blow return to the ma the king is back though cor and cash I never like those she saw the stone you know how that go fatality my diamond I think the thing is I have to touch the pedal just wants me it's not going to start but we're just going to try one last time just to make sure we Tred it all good baby what yeah yes I figured it out bro we messed with this thing for so freaking long and I told my and he's like oh the timing's right it's right it's right it's right turn the distributor all the way around fires right up like a freaking Beast did you hear that yeah bro he runs so good now we need ear muffs that thing is way too freaking here's the thing it is finally freaking time to pull this bad boy out and do a burnout it's been a long 4 months working on it and uh you're not going to be able to hear anything I say after I get it started so just enjoy everybody might get out of the way because I'm not sure if the brakes are going to work good enough to stop this car hey all fful of canas Baby Woo oh that wasn't good at all oh boy hey everything was going great right up until that happened dude all I seen is that I'm sitting there is I'm like doing a burnout and I'm looking forward and then I can't see nothing it looks like I just drove underwater that's not good oh there's a ton of BU the thing is it blew out right here wouldn't have been nothing for it to suck in a bunch of water right in the intake oh no oh no oh no oh no she's done dude that much Blow by off just cranking like she done she done we spent 4 months doing this video and uh we just blew her up but that's okay cuz I've got a surprise for you guys next time for this car don't worry this might not be the original engine she sticks with woo I'm fire maybe not my smartest moment I be honestAustralian burnout competition guys I've always thought I did epic burnouts but on the bottom of the world in a place called Australia they do burnouts a little bit differently because for them it's not just something they do for fun it's a competition it's a sport it's a test of who can take and build the biggest baddest big block blowed cars in the world and who can burn Rubber with the most style and here's the thing guys they're kind of putting us to shame and I just can't let that happen and that right there is where I bring this bad boy I bought another 2.3 l EcoBoost Mustang now you guys might remember what happened the last EcoBoost Mustang we bought something kind of similar is going to happen to this one she's going to go from a meekan mild four cylinder that does I mean I don't know what it does it does something to being a absolute burnout Master that's enough of that let's go tear this thing apart woohoo the thing is when we decided to do a burnout car we had to go back to the things we know what we're working with we know how to make the power steering work we know how to make the rear end work and these are really tough cars so we're going to throw a big block with a supercharger in there we're going to have a lot of torque a lot of power we need something that's going to hold up and these cars seem to do pretty good so dude this thing going to be good imagine big old blower sticking out of the hood big old scoop on top of that making all kinds of big V8 noises for science we got to figure out exactly what this thing sounds like without the exhaust so oh got it okay here D over the car it sounds like a pissed off lawn mower oh my God 3 2 1 I think we should put it down on the ground see if it does better burnouts with this oh yeah for sure oh no I think we blew it up bad oh dude we screwed the anybody want to buy a previously used 2.3 l EcoBoost motor it's for sale not on sale we'll pull it out for you guys it'll be on a pallet ready to go it's a good running motor hey put it Park give it a good rep for the people yeah yeah it's fce it's a good motor R Great okay back into the shop we got to go ahead and tear it apart I mean it's it's broken now we've got to tear it apart well I will admit it's a lot more work pushing them in when we blow them up but it's a whole lot more fun blowing them up howo airbox goodbye air box see you oh that's an exhaust that's hot Drop the carrier bearing pull this bad boy out we're just pulling this engine right on out of here baby right we'll have to go up pull it forward and then kind of go up with it go up with it smidgen there we go keep going watch this hold on stop it's get it's not hooked on this side go back down keep going oh back up back up keep going there he goes woo he got her every about stand back when I say you got to be really smooth with this you got to be really smooth or it might lose this thing off keep it nice go keep going keep going keep going boom she pulled out it was barely on yeah the same thing on that side like it was just like barely on there we was one little breeze away from dropping a godd dang motor on the front clip of a Mustang all right so here's the deal we've got a big hole ready for a big engine now all we need to do is go find the big engine this a big old engine this right here is a 454 Big Block and uh all we got to do now is get it out of this wrecked truck put a couple parts on it make it a little beautiful and then stuff it in our burnout car first things first let's go ahead and pull it to town get to the shop oh my god did I back into that guy back there now you're good go ahead hey hold the brakes okay what off the brakes here we go fire up with a rip oh my God sh off not even no exhaust weaks are nothing no lift or TI she is ready for the burn outness that she's getting ready to experience dude it's actually really sad that we got to tear with this truck apart but she's got a bent frame so literally this the end of this truck's life it's okay you're donating your heart to a good cause all right where's the zos at woo did you cut through the goddamn windshield wiper flood hey it was just in the way okay excuse me paron me coming through oh almost had it got it there we go everything is out of the way all we got to do now is unbolt the engine the transmission the drive line and get this bad boy pulled right on out of here just the way you like it here's what's happening right now if you didn't know Chevrolet motors don't fit very good into Ford cars now here's the thing I've got an engine motor mount for Chevy I've got a Chevy motor a Ford car some plate a welder a grinder I should be able to figure out how to put this in there with just a little bit of science let me see let me see your equation four plates to back ass like you already said it wrong you can't be screwing up science why can't you write it right I do right right you got to read it Forward plate to back didn't didn't write that right did I now all I got to do is measure everything cut everything weld it all back together and then put it in the car and see if I got it right I know what you guys might be wondering what is this big Contraption I've built and what it is is an adapter plate to adapt the Sherway motor mounts that go underneath our 454 like that into the Mustang's K member so basically all we got to do is drop this bad boy in just like that bolt it down and then we can throw the engine in the car we'll slam it in there drop it in it'll be perfect right in the middle right where it needs to be everything works like that every time every single it's not like we've had this in here like four times already trying to figure out and make sure the motor mounts are right I mean we know it fits now 3 2 1 oh we're Hing some things okay oh she going right in baby oh keep going oh okay hold on now hold on now dude she might just fall right in really oh my God almost like we knew what we was doing look it's not even crooked or nothing how do I do oh oh she's even lined up maybe we got to make sure she's nice and high so we got a 2in spacer to go underneath the blower gosh she going to look so good boom she is landed baby so what we're going to do now is we got the blower on we're going to take and put the Hat on top of that we'll figure out all the fuel lines we got to put the fuel pump on it got to put the pulley on the front the belt and then she's basically ready to start up it's not it goes on like this right uh I mean kind of oh she looks so good oh my God look at her so this is a completely different system for what we used last time because this here is complete mechanical fuel injection so we're going to run alcohol in it we'll probably push like 10 12 lbs of boost this poor little junkyard motor who's got a razor blade dude the guy is over at Aly Digger you just handed me a 3 million chevres oh damn it's the key to this box too I don't know what that is is that's a throttle cable or the shutdown cable what is that what the hell is that does it go in there no it don't made damn sense how the hell does that work here does that go on there this goes this goes on there no no I don't know how this works sure this is a professional shop we know exactly what we're doing here my good friend is holding the ignition coil oh wait all right so I think we've got this figured out basically where' it go this goes onto here which holds the pump then we take and put the pump so yeah we got this figured out D look it fits we got the belt on there we got the pulley on the top the bottom the fuel pump fits the fuel pump belt is on it's a frostbite thing that Hol sent out to us this thing going to be so cold that it's never going to overheat so while I'm putting the water pump on he's actually pulling the studs out of the head so we can put the new headers on and uh everybody cross your fingers because there's a 90% chance we're going to break at least five I'm pretty sure I'm just choking a cancer stricken duck quack quack quack well problem guys I think we got to take the motor out to get the distributor in it took us a while but we got the distributor fit now we got to see if the cap will fit right there baby there we go she's ready to rock and roll get some spark plug wires on there put some spark plugs in it then we'll put the headers on it dude look at the long tubes we got hooker long tube headers in here and these are for like a 69 or 67 Camaro I'm not even sure but hopefully they fit 2017 Ford Mustangs they didn't fit we might have to take the steering out just to even get it in there Co sensor oil filter steering all the wayed now it should thing is once we get it in there we can actually put the stuff back just get it in there a new problem the brakes are inting it do we take brakes off too we can try your we can try your thing and like try the engine okay I got it get in there go you know a jack might be good oh wait a minute hold on now wait hold on did that almost fit pretty close bro that kind that kind of remember how I said them headers was almost getting ready to fit I was lying so we bought a complete set to make a custom set of headers from stainless head.com it took a week but they're done and they work and they'll probably be perfect let's move on to better things because I just want this car to go oh look at that look at it it looks so good all right you want to weld it in we got all that done but now look at this Holly sent us some shiny valve covers I don't know look we got shiny valve covers we're going to put them on the engine oh God they look so good I wasn't sure about them because they look like the vintage ones like from the ' 60s and 7s but they just look so freaking good all right guys here's the thing the last week we've got a lot done on this car we got the fuel system done the wiring done the Transmissions plumbed we got oil coolers on both sides now so we got an oil cooler and a trans cooler so I guess all we need to do now is pour some fuel in it throw the front bumper on try to crank it and see if it either blows up or goes dude this thing going to look good snap on the sides dude we completely transformed this thing it looks good before we start it up we got one more thing we need to put onto it okay bye-bye Mustang wheel hello new shiny wheel oh dude look how good it looks dude this thing is chunky when I ordered it I wanted the back tire to be fat but look at that thing that's like oh oh damn oh maybe I got a little bit too chunky with the B oh my God we're going to need a fender flare for this thing look how much it sticks out we're going to have to put a freaking bushwhacker on this bad boy maybe I got a little bit wild with order in the nitos oh it just looks stupid it looks so bad the front looks real good look at it the big block brings it down to the point just lowered almost the back doesn't look good I'll be honest the back doesn't look good at oh holy all right you got the start button you got the fire extinguisher yes sir all right and Micah just just make sure it doesn't blow up don't blow up oh she made a b bang dude that's close bro that starter is not happy oh woo yeah she got something that's going the right way now yeah we're going the right way woo yeah you hear that right there's power trying to esape out the exhaust you feel alive let's hit the dance Flor don't wait till my break a back blow return to the ma the king is back though cor and cash I never like those she saw the stone you know how that go fatality my diamond I think the thing is I have to touch the pedal just wants me it's not going to start but we're just going to try one last time just to make sure we Tred it all good baby what yeah yes I figured it out bro we messed with this thing for so freaking long and I told my and he's like oh the timing's right it's right it's right it's right turn the distributor all the way around fires right up like a freaking Beast did you hear that yeah bro he runs so good now we need ear muffs that thing is way too freaking here's the thing it is finally freaking time to pull this bad boy out and do a burnout it's been a long 4 months working on it and uh you're not going to be able to hear anything I say after I get it started so just enjoy everybody might get out of the way because I'm not sure if the brakes are going to work good enough to stop this car hey all fful of canas Baby Woo oh that wasn't good at all oh boy hey everything was going great right up until that happened dude all I seen is that I'm sitting there is I'm like doing a burnout and I'm looking forward and then I can't see nothing it looks like I just drove underwater that's not good oh there's a ton of BU the thing is it blew out right here wouldn't have been nothing for it to suck in a bunch of water right in the intake oh no oh no oh no oh no she's done dude that much Blow by off just cranking like she done she done we spent 4 months doing this video and uh we just blew her up but that's okay cuz I've got a surprise for you guys next time for this car don't worry this might not be the original engine she sticks with woo I'm fire maybe not my smartest moment I be honest\n"