Yes, his confidence and knowledge can lead your average viewer into a false sense of security. I, fortunately, have a friend who has vast experience building and damaging complete race engines that walks me through tuning and working on our 8 second bracket car. His costly experience and loss is our gain. It is a gift when guys like my Buddy Vinny and Steve Morris are gracious enough to help other builders and racers by sharing their experiences, both good and bad. Sincere thanks!
What a damn legend. He not only builds world class engines, but also freely passes along expensive and hard learned lessons to those who otherwise might never discover or figure them out themselves.
This guys a genius! Anyone and everyone will benefit from this failure, investigation, and re-engineering of those pistons! I foresee an avalanche of orders for these pistons, once he starts manufacturing them!
Other engine builders must have Steve's tech videos on loop in their sleep😂😂 half the people when they get to this level in anything wont give out free game and here steve is posting it on youtube, shows how much of a class act the guy is🤘🏼 and that wagon is seriously fast considering how big and heavy that thing is😂
I wouldn’t say he is giving away info for free, he is hoping to build his channel and make money off it as well as attract new customers to buy all the smL engines he is building so make no mistake he is a genius a genius at making the cheddar!!!!
Major props to you Steve for showing your mistakes. Building crazy bulletproof engines like you do doesn't happen without first finding the limitations. This means broken parts. Both this and the Cleetus clearance issue are the things that happen whenever you push the envelope, It shows HUGE integrity that you freely show this stuff, and then find a way to fix it. Thanks.
@@Nick210 the fact that he built cleetus a engine is pushing the envelope. Cleetus is awesome and developing as a racer, but he makes maintenence and mechanical mistakes like the rest of us. Sometimes more than us.
I would not call what happened to Steve's engine a mistake, it is development / trade off . When the rods get shorter to solve this problem, there may be other issues. A mistake is when you know what to do and don't do it.
I never thought Steve was this down to earth I remember watching his builds with my dad back 10+ years ago , never thought he was this cool . Love your content Steve !
As someone who loves to help people, I love watching your videos! It's great to watch someone so motivated to help people learn. Thank you for sharing you knowledge!
You're the man, Steve. I love the fact that you put so much information, including all the small details out for public consumption. A lot of drag racers are so secretive about their stuff, but you're so open about your stuff. Really appreciate that there's guys like you out there to make the sport a better place. Keep on keeping on!!
Hey Steve. Loving all the content you have been putting out. Been following you since way back when the only car guy material available was Hot Rod Magazine. Awesome to see legends like you and Tom Bailey being active on CZcams.
The way Steve explains and teaches everything.... it makes me want to drop EVERYTHING and come to FULL TIME shop work... I do not care about pay. Just want to learn more and be in good knowledgeable company! No One has more passion for drag racing than me.. but I love to learn from the best!
Props to you for being so down to earth and sharing your knowledge with us. Love the channel, glad to see you on the strip and collaborating with a great group of folks.
Awesome video Steve. I have the utmost respect for you. Your honesty, your engineering prowess, and your willingness to freely share the information, along with your knowledge, speaks very highly of the person that you are. Thank you for finding the time to run your channel. Regards from Perth, Western Australia, Greg
Love all the Intel from your page Steve! Also from Michigan and got some great advice a few weeks back from your staff about my LS3 build. THANK YOU STEVE!!
Very very rarely do you find a builder thats extremely good at what he does and still willing to teach. I appreciate you taking the time. Appreciate it very much.
Crazy damage. Amazing how you always show everything, no matter if good or bad. Not afraid to hide damages and "problems". Integrity, Transparency and Honesty that are impossibly hard to find nowadays 👍👍
Hey man just wanted to say how awesome this content is, we need more masters of their craft out here sharing their knowledge, been watching cleeter for a couple years now and getting turned on to your channel has been one of the great things to come out of it. Keep up the good work.
You are the man Steve, love how you explain situations that come up like your piston issue , it's what makes racing great when people like you and others do explain their problems and find new solutions glad you and Cleetus hooked up , Mullet needed a big block 👏
Steve, you are an awesome teacher. You explain things in a way that is easy to understand. You are definiately a wealth of knowledge that you willingly share with others. Most engine builders would keep everything quiet and not share these lessons learned. Thank you.
Steve Morris and his transparent knowledge is just priceless . I may never have an engine in that level but the education from this video is unreal. Eye opening lesson on the engine tech, thank you Steve and associates. Keep rocking 👍🏻👍🏻
Its good to see you as a builder and tuner showing your own engine going poorly. Your pushing the limits with both the engineering and development and things do happen and your not afraid to show the world so hats off to you. Cracking channel so interesting in both what can be done and how to make stuff live with these huge numbers your getting ...
Really appreciate the honesty from you no excuses no b.s just what really happened even tho your name is on it that’s pretty big of you keep the vids going 👍
Im a programmer with a degree in computer science. I love listening to you and your expertise in what you do. As someone who strives for prfessionalism and competence in my career field, I have so much respect for the work I getti see you do! Congrats and good luck on hitting 230 mph!
This is why I love Steve. His honesty and willing to make changes to fix problems and admit limits. He doesn’t claim inaccurate longevity for products. Like where the rumors of stock LS motors handling 1000 hp forever. This is why his motors are some of the best. Thank you.
I love the way you show everything, there is no shame in failure. The only person that has never faked is the person who never tried….. and in my opinion has never lived!,,
Awesome explanation. Very easy to understand. It’s so informative and entertaining watching your videos. Keep pushing the limits and showing us the carnage.
It's funny, before you showed the piston, I was saying "ring land". Apparently, at these horsepower levels the thickness of the area between the ring lands is really important. Great job pointing out the real issue. I would have thought the tune was just too much if you hadn't explained it. Failure analysis is really important to make the right corrections, and I tend to learn something new with most of your videos. Thanks.
Just recently started following and watching all your content. Great videos, awesome builds and some amazing products. Experience and knowledge are very obvious also, and you do a great job on camera explaining things to people who may not get hands on with such amazing toys and tools. 👍
Thanks for explaining the issue in a way that this old man can understand your a awesome engine builder and testing in order to provide better quality engines. As always be safe 👍
Wow, Steve. That was a fantastic explanation of why that piston bit the big one! Holy Crap, That piston took a real beating. you have an Excellent understanding of why things break. Thanks for sharing. After I saw you working on Mullet I started following you immediately! You are such a down-to-earth Dude, Hopefully, I will get an opportunity to meet you someday. You will have to make it closer to the Pacific Northwest though. Denver is a 17hr drive from Spokane!
I literally learn three things EVERY video, thank you Steve! Maybe the outer most piston ran lean for just a second, the center of the motor sucks the fuel mixture away from the outer piston it seems.
Huge respect for your utter transparency on anything that breaks, loving watching you working on Mullet, learning heaps - principally that engines making this much power aren't easy!!! One piece of advice if I may - pack 40 gallons of mosquito repellant next time, that buzzing from the next lane was scary!😅
Oh WoW, thanks for the update. So that's why stroker turbo combo's have problems. Ring support. I figured it was always ring pinch. Real good visual on the other piston with the bent ringlands. Always is a balance it seems. Keep up the good work. Really enjoying the content lately. Good variety 🤘🏻🇺🇸
The way Steve can make me feel like I could build break diagnose rebuild break and diagnose just from watching his tech videos is insane . Steve truly is a master builder of epic proportions but on a humble enough level to make sense to the common dude ! 👏 bravo sir bravo
That is serious power! Steve, just wondering if you have enough material to raise the deck height. Then whatever deck height is added can be added to the piston land thickness.. That way the rod ratio can stay the same. Just throwing it out there. I have a lot of respect for you as a builder.
Often seems to be the case that an otherwise seemingly healthy engine will hurt itself at the traps as soon as the foot comes off the skinny pedal. It’s awesome to learn from an expert who’s engines you’ve watched compete for years. Love all the info. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
"pedaling" them has always been an issue and creates mega-massive forces and piston rock, add in silly things like "traction control" goin D-D-D-D-D-D-D, guaranteed damages and worse with shorter piston skirts, even causing lean-out knock/ping every single repetition. and never overlook the more simplistic thing of a valve adjusted wrong or supposed good/new sparkplug that has flash/junk from factory and heats causing pre-ignition! they all look like junk to me, fresh out of the box and I'm not an engineer, but I know how they're mass produced and near whizz quality control, s is everything today.
Steve ain't lying, wrist pin height affects piston strength in all engines, big and small. It would be interesting to hear about wrist pin height on a high boost engine vs high rpm where the connecting rod pulling down on the piston has more force than the combustion/power stroke.
Steve, I'm willing to bet that, that piston was damaged by the windage tray even and just happened to give up the ghost during that last run. Those pin buttons are doing a great job I think. You are truly a master at your craft. My hat is off to you sir.
Steve has a way of dumbing everything down to the point that makes me think I can rebuild a 2000 hp engine. lol
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This is very true 😂
yes :-)
His stuff is designed to be easy to work on. Steve and his team have some crazy brain power.
Yes, his confidence and knowledge can lead your average viewer into a false sense of security. I, fortunately, have a friend who has vast experience building and damaging complete race engines that walks me through tuning and working on our 8 second bracket car. His costly experience and loss is our gain. It is a gift when guys like my Buddy Vinny and Steve Morris are gracious enough to help other builders and racers by sharing their experiences, both good and bad. Sincere thanks!
What a damn legend. He not only builds world class engines, but also freely passes along expensive and hard learned lessons to those who otherwise might never discover or figure them out themselves.
This guys a genius! Anyone and everyone will benefit from this failure, investigation, and re-engineering of those pistons! I foresee an avalanche of orders for these pistons, once he starts manufacturing them!
Other engine builders must have Steve's tech videos on loop in their sleep😂😂 half the people when they get to this level in anything wont give out free game and here steve is posting it on youtube, shows how much of a class act the guy is🤘🏼 and that wagon is seriously fast considering how big and heavy that thing is😂
its like a free college, engine building course haha
I wouldn’t say he is giving away info for free, he is hoping to build his channel and make money off it as well as attract new customers to buy all the smL engines he is building so make no mistake he is a genius a genius at making the cheddar!!!!
Major props to you Steve for showing your mistakes. Building crazy bulletproof engines like you do doesn't happen without first finding the limitations. This means broken parts. Both this and the Cleetus clearance issue are the things that happen whenever you push the envelope, It shows HUGE integrity that you freely show this stuff, and then find a way to fix it.
Thanks.
What part of Mullet’s motor is pushing the envelope?
@@Nick210 the fact that he built cleetus a engine is pushing the envelope. Cleetus is awesome and developing as a racer, but he makes maintenence and mechanical mistakes like the rest of us. Sometimes more than us.
@@Nick210Cleetus also had a 481x but never used it
@@Nick210 exactly its just a Brodix block. Not no billet special.
I would not call what happened to Steve's engine a mistake, it is development / trade off . When the rods get shorter to solve this problem, there may be other issues. A mistake is when you know what to do and don't do it.
Man she WENT 😂🤘
1000 miles and 230mph on damaged pistons. Steve you're the man🇺🇲
Dude we were the car that ran morris at the start, He beat us by a legitimate ass hair, i loved the race though
I never thought Steve was this down to earth I remember watching his builds with my dad back 10+ years ago , never thought he was this cool . Love your content Steve !
They're man made, could have been a detect in that one piston! Thanks for the transparency in your videos about everything that you do!
Not likely to be a defect if he has a collection of the same failure
“Shit happens” is a true statement.
That wagon is unreal cool.
Steve not make his own pistons?
Nope… probably Diamond pieces
As someone who loves to help people, I love watching your videos! It's great to watch someone so motivated to help people learn. Thank you for sharing you knowledge!
You're the man, Steve. I love the fact that you put so much information, including all the small details out for public consumption. A lot of drag racers are so secretive about their stuff, but you're so open about your stuff. Really appreciate that there's guys like you out there to make the sport a better place. Keep on keeping on!!
The information that you share with the world is incredible, thanks for these videos.
I was thinking "Why does Steve's cars sound so weird?" - turns out it just is the crazy loud rotary car in the other lane... 😂😁👻
Great example of Steve's theory of " making HP is not a problem, making things last is". Great vid Steve !.
I'm surprised you didn't have more damage to the cylinder with all that piston material bouncing around in it
Shout out to that haul butt rotary too👍
How ironic it happened while racing a rotary.
Very educational. 👌
Fast one, too.
Love how he talks in simple terms.
Hey Steve. Loving all the content you have been putting out. Been following you since way back when the only car guy material available was Hot Rod Magazine. Awesome to see legends like you and Tom Bailey being active on CZcams.
In this day and age your transparency is refreshing. As Always, May God Bless you and yours!
ILL SAY IT AGAIN….YOU, ARE, THE HORSEPOWER GOAT!!! Thanks for the uploads. As a daily uploader I know how much work it is!!
The way Steve explains and teaches everything.... it makes me want to drop EVERYTHING and come to FULL TIME shop work... I do not care about pay. Just want to learn more and be in good knowledgeable company!
No One has more passion for drag racing than me.. but I love to learn from the best!
Props to you for being so down to earth and sharing your knowledge with us. Love the channel, glad to see you on the strip and collaborating with a great group of folks.
Cleeter sent me here. Wow great channel Steve your engines are amazing!
Absolutely love these technical videos. All the data and reasons why something didn’t or did work. Could watch these all day!
I really appreciate how you just keep it real simple. You stand by and back up your work. Your knowledge of what happens "WHEN" is topnotch.
Awesome video Steve. I have the utmost respect for you. Your honesty, your engineering prowess, and your willingness to freely share the information, along with your knowledge, speaks very highly of the person that you are. Thank you for finding the time to run your channel. Regards from Perth, Western Australia, Greg
Love all the Intel from your page Steve! Also from Michigan and got some great advice a few weeks back from your staff about my LS3 build. THANK YOU STEVE!!
Nice straightforward explanation ; something we have come to expect from you. Thanks Steve , much appreciated.
Very very rarely do you find a builder thats extremely good at what he does and still willing to teach. I appreciate you taking the time. Appreciate it very much.
This is amazing info, great to see. I came over from Cleetus' channel, really digging the expertise Steve has and his willingness to share it.
Absolutely loving this channel! So informative and helps the average person (like me!) learn a thing or three. And man, that rotary was sooo rowdy!
Awesome video! Love the honesty and how he explains different scenarios with his engines. Definitely one of the GREAT engine builders/drivers!!
Crazy damage. Amazing how you always show everything, no matter if good or bad. Not afraid to hide damages and "problems". Integrity, Transparency and Honesty that are impossibly hard to find nowadays 👍👍
Hey man just wanted to say how awesome this content is, we need more masters of their craft out here sharing their knowledge, been watching cleeter for a couple years now and getting turned on to your channel has been one of the great things to come out of it. Keep up the good work.
You are the man Steve, love how you explain situations that come up like your piston issue , it's what makes racing great when people like you and others do explain their problems and find new solutions glad you and Cleetus hooked up , Mullet needed a big block 👏
Love how humble you are we know what a world class engine builder you are but it’s awesome your so open about mistakes even you make!!!
Steve, you are an awesome teacher. You explain things in a way that is easy to understand. You are definiately a wealth of knowledge that you willingly share with others. Most engine builders would keep everything quiet and not share these lessons learned. Thank you.
I’ve seen several of your videos now, and this was my favourite. Just the goods, straight up, love it! Be well.
Thanks a lot of this great content, Steve. All the best to you and your shop this Summer. Really enjoy seeing your work in the shop and at the track.
Can't beat a engine builder blowing up his stuff.. how contained it was is amazing.
Steve Morris and his transparent knowledge is just priceless . I may never have an engine in that level but the education from this video is unreal. Eye opening lesson on the engine tech, thank you Steve and associates. Keep rocking 👍🏻👍🏻
Its good to see you as a builder and tuner showing your own engine going poorly. Your pushing the limits with both the engineering and development and things do happen and your not afraid to show the world so hats off to you. Cracking channel so interesting in both what can be done and how to make stuff live with these huge numbers your getting ...
This is the content alot of people won't show or wanna even talk about ! The content and knowledge is amazing 👏
I love what you do! You gave me a HUGH flashback to when I used to build Cleveland engines. Being so methodical is the only way to go! Thank you!
Man alive I found another car channel I'll actually watch all their videos. Thank you Steve we love what you do and the education is priceless 😀 👌
Your videos reminds me of KSRs videos.
Just way too much information given out free of charge.
In extreme detail.
You are a beast man ✊🏾🔥
KSR is the bomb! Cleet got a KSR built car with a Steve morris engine. That's about as good as it gets.
Really appreciate the honesty from you no excuses no b.s just what really happened even tho your name is on it that’s pretty big of you keep the vids going 👍
Im a programmer with a degree in computer science. I love listening to you and your expertise in what you do. As someone who strives for prfessionalism and competence in my career field, I have so much respect for the work I getti see you do! Congrats and good luck on hitting 230 mph!
Great explanation 👌 it really shows how much R and D you put into your engine program. Always evolving. Nice work.
The channel is getting better and better, love it. How much merch would I have to buy to get an old piston? Extremely want one!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This is why I love Steve. His honesty and willing to make changes to fix problems and admit limits. He doesn’t claim inaccurate longevity for products.
Like where the rumors of stock LS motors handling 1000 hp forever. This is why his motors are some of the best.
Thank you.
Thanks Steve, keep up the great work!!!! Need to do more with Garrett and Derek.
cletus sent me..
I love the way you show everything, there is no shame in failure. The only person that has never faked is the person who never tried….. and in my opinion has never lived!,,
Thanks so much for your channel! The knowledge and thought process you share with the community is just amazing!
Testing, someone's got to find the limits and you guys are, it’s pretty awesome to see, keep up the good content.
NICE TO SEE NO MATTERY WHAT LEVEL YOUR ON YOU NEVER STOP LEARNING AND INOVATING FOR THE BETTER.
Came from Cleetus, stayed for the knowledge. Great work man!
That wagon is so cool looking. I always liked that style. Amazing build.
Awesome explanation. Very easy to understand. It’s so informative and entertaining watching your videos. Keep pushing the limits and showing us the carnage.
It's funny, before you showed the piston, I was saying "ring land". Apparently, at these horsepower levels the thickness of the area between the ring lands is really important. Great job pointing out the real issue. I would have thought the tune was just too much if you hadn't explained it. Failure analysis is really important to make the right corrections, and I tend to learn something new with most of your videos. Thanks.
Just recently started following and watching all your content. Great videos, awesome builds and some amazing products. Experience and knowledge are very obvious also, and you do a great job on camera explaining things to people who may not get hands on with such amazing toys and tools. 👍
Laying down the knowledge Steve, thank you for sharing!
Great video, Steve. Awesome seeing the internals, and learning what you check.
Fascinating stuff Steve! The insight you provide is amazing!
Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks for explaining the issue in a way that this old man can understand your a awesome engine builder and testing in order to provide better quality engines. As always be safe 👍
Wow, Steve. That was a fantastic explanation of why that piston bit the big one! Holy Crap, That piston took a real beating. you have an Excellent understanding of why things break. Thanks for sharing. After I saw you working on Mullet I started following you immediately! You are such a down-to-earth Dude, Hopefully, I will get an opportunity to meet you someday. You will have to make it closer to the Pacific Northwest though. Denver is a 17hr drive from Spokane!
I just love those wagon. So sleek and practical at the same time
I literally learn three things EVERY video, thank you Steve! Maybe the outer most piston ran lean for just a second, the center of the motor sucks the fuel mixture away from the outer piston it seems.
Not with 55 lbs of boost, it doesn't have lean cylinders
Thank you for the education, Steve. I always learn something from the videos.
Thanks for all your good schooling!
I always learn something from your videos!
thanks for the heads up!😮
Huge respect for your utter transparency on anything that breaks, loving watching you working on Mullet, learning heaps - principally that engines making this much power aren't easy!!! One piece of advice if I may - pack 40 gallons of mosquito repellant next time, that buzzing from the next lane was scary!😅
I'm not talking crap ,your a legend dude...
Your technical tip's are informative and helpful Steve. So greatfull for explaining the problems. 💯🤟 Aussie Fan 🇦🇺😎
What an amazing thing you are doing sharing this knowledge. Thank you sir.
dude, what a great channel! you are fricken amazing, and what talent! binge watching all day!
Fascinating! Keep up the great work and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Steve for dropping some knowledge on us! Always interesting videos to watch and hopefully one day I can build a car and run with the big dogs!
Crazy that it held up as well as it did, great work
Love his videos. King of Horsepower! Keep them coming please.
It's always a good day when steve uploads!
Awesome for you to speak to us on this level. I appreciate the clean language. Love that wagon. New subscriber here.
The simple fact that your sense of humor lead me right to this video 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh WoW, thanks for the update. So that's why stroker turbo combo's have problems. Ring support. I figured it was always ring pinch. Real good visual on the other piston with the bent ringlands. Always is a balance it seems. Keep up the good work. Really enjoying the content lately. Good variety 🤘🏻🇺🇸
Love that sound! Sounds like my 1900 hp 272 cid Buick v6 . Thanks Steve
To spend a week with Steve we would learn so much, thanks for sharing sir
Makes total sense! Depth of distance between the top of the pin and the top of the piston need more meat to handle the pressure. GOT IT!
Great video Steve! Thanks for all the info!!
The way Steve can make me feel like I could build break diagnose rebuild break and diagnose just from watching his tech videos is insane . Steve truly is a master builder of epic proportions but on a humble enough level to make sense to the common dude ! 👏 bravo sir bravo
Props to that rotary, looked like it was holding it’s own
Oh no!
But by god I learnt so much in this video Steve. Thanks for the ring land explanation!!!! I never knew.
That is serious power!
Steve, just wondering if you have enough material to raise the deck height. Then whatever deck height is added can be added to the piston land thickness.. That way the rod ratio can stay the same.
Just throwing it out there.
I have a lot of respect for you as a builder.
Often seems to be the case that an otherwise seemingly healthy engine will hurt itself at the traps as soon as the foot comes off the skinny pedal.
It’s awesome to learn from an expert who’s engines you’ve watched compete for years. Love all the info. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
"pedaling" them has always been an issue and creates mega-massive forces and piston rock, add in silly things like "traction control" goin D-D-D-D-D-D-D, guaranteed damages and worse with shorter piston skirts, even causing lean-out knock/ping every single repetition. and never overlook the more simplistic thing of a valve adjusted wrong or supposed good/new sparkplug that has flash/junk from factory and heats causing pre-ignition!
they all look like junk to me, fresh out of the box and I'm not an engineer, but I know how they're mass produced and near whizz quality control, s is everything today.
Steve ain't lying, wrist pin height affects piston strength in all engines, big and small. It would be interesting to hear about wrist pin height on a high boost engine vs high rpm where the connecting rod pulling down on the piston has more force than the combustion/power stroke.
Good choice in rods, quality still seems great sense the buy out. Mike is a great dude, I remember getting a tour of his shop in the very early days.
Great explanation and look forward to the fix and getting even faster!
I really love these tech videos and appreciate you for sharing them.
Steve is a mechanical genius. So glad to see him teaming up with the Macfarland racing squad.
You spelled wrecking wrong.
I love the explanations and it clearly makes sense!!!
Mr Morris always is a humble genuine fella I’ve never meet!! 1Day
Great video! You should sell those used pistons with rods to people. I wouldn't mind one to sit on top of my tool box
Steve, I'm willing to bet that, that piston was damaged by the windage tray even and just happened to give up the ghost during that last run. Those pin buttons are doing a great job I think. You are truly a master at your craft. My hat is off to you sir.
Steve you rock! Love the channel and content! I'm here for the algorithm! Peace