Engine Exploding Compilation Is About as Intense as It Gets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVHajrEhHa4

All of these drivers are going to need a ride home. And a tow.

The internal components of an engine move at mind-bending speeds. Look what happens when everything goes wrong.

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In this YouTube compilation by AJRacing, it looks like the engine falls out of some of these drag trucks, pulling tractors, and dyno-tuned hatchbacks due to failing head bolts.

In these instances, the top end of the engine - the intake, head, and so on - separate from the engine's bottom end. Other engine failures are more anticlimactic, such as a dirt bike experiencing a rod failure, sending fractured pieces of the internals and case flying forward toward the front tire.

Either way, there's a lot of time and money going up in smoke in this compilation. Literally.

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