Is this the Worst 5.0 Engine Carnage You’ve Ever Seen?
Chris Demorro / powerTV | StangTV: The Ultimate Ford Mustang Magazine
If you’re in the auto hobby long enough, you’re bound to see some serious engine wreckage. Sure, you can always play it safe and keep power levels low, and build everything out of the strongest parts available.
But have you ever seen anything this bad? Bangshift forum user Blazerteam posted this picture up, and the only thing greater than the carnage is the mystery surrounding this mangled motor.
What you see before you are the shattered remains of a Ford 302 engine. There’s almost nothing usable left on this motor. The crank shaft is broken…everywhere. A huge chunk of the engine block is missing. Both the oil pump and pickup are twisted and the windage tray is together, but just barely. Every piston has been punished, and not even the flywheel managed to escape. Stick a fork in this motor, because it’s all done.
Alas, we don’t really know much about how or why it happened. Apparently the picture was labeled “lewtons 302 after rev test” on some Norwegian site, so we’re guessing the testing didn’t go quite as planned. That’s a lot of money to lose on the engine dyno. We just can’t see how anything could have survived, and it makes us wonder just how much horsepower this bad boy was making. Does it get any worse than this?
Chris Demorro / powerTV | StangTV: The Ultimate Ford Mustang Magazine
If you’re in the auto hobby long enough, you’re bound to see some serious engine wreckage. Sure, you can always play it safe and keep power levels low, and build everything out of the strongest parts available.
But have you ever seen anything this bad? Bangshift forum user Blazerteam posted this picture up, and the only thing greater than the carnage is the mystery surrounding this mangled motor.
What you see before you are the shattered remains of a Ford 302 engine. There’s almost nothing usable left on this motor. The crank shaft is broken…everywhere. A huge chunk of the engine block is missing. Both the oil pump and pickup are twisted and the windage tray is together, but just barely. Every piston has been punished, and not even the flywheel managed to escape. Stick a fork in this motor, because it’s all done.
Alas, we don’t really know much about how or why it happened. Apparently the picture was labeled “lewtons 302 after rev test” on some Norwegian site, so we’re guessing the testing didn’t go quite as planned. That’s a lot of money to lose on the engine dyno. We just can’t see how anything could have survived, and it makes us wonder just how much horsepower this bad boy was making. Does it get any worse than this?
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