When Good Ole Boys Working on an Engine Goes Bad… Big Explosion! 🎥

There’s nothing like gathering up a few buddies and spending the afternoon in the shop working on a race car.  Some of the best memories a man will ever make happen while turning wrenches or just standing around watching the other guys turn wrenches. However, some of the most terrifying memories can also take place while working on the hotrod, as you will see in the video below.

This group of hotrodders are working on a gasser called The Stovebolt, trying to get it to fire up for the first time. While the video doesn’t show what happened leading up to this, it seems likely they’d been trying for a while before getting to this point. The solution they’re trying in the video is one that’s been used – without incident – countless times: dumping a little fuel into the intake. In this case, it appears to be alcohol they’re squirting into the carburetor in hopes of getting the engine to kick over and fire.

What they get, instead, is a couple of turns from the starter and an insane backfire that sent the intake flying and the mechanics scrambling. Apparently the timing was way off, causing the engine to backfire through the intake instead of turning over and cranking as expected. The explosion was incredibly forceful and looks like it could have done some serious damage to the engine, the shop, and the people around the powerplant when it exploded. Be warned, there is some pretty intense language following the backfire, so you want to listen to this with your headphone if you’re watching at work or around small children.

While we can’t really preach too much against what these guys were trying, it is always better to try to make the engine fire normally before taking the step of spraying fuel directly into the intake, just to prevent things like this from happening.