I Destroyed the rare 427 engine in my 1966 Corvette. DON'T DO THIS!

when this engine's warm the oil pressure is very low it doesn't go to zero but it's really low and there's a little bit of bottom end noise that i'm not liking so i'm very questionable about the bottom end of this motor the health of this engine oh okey-dokey welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i am at the car wizards lair he has summoned me up here because apparently both of my general motors products my 1994 gmc suburban and my 1966 chevrolet corvette 427 are fixed but he told me he has some good news and some bad news the wizard tends to be a little dramatic with this kind of stuff so hopefully it's not a big deal but i am very excited to drive this 427 corvette for the first time really because last time well it overheated within 10 minutes and i limped it back here the suburban has been a solid citizen but the fuel pump went bad i had to tow it up here so i imagine it's not a big deal there hopefully hopefully not wizard where's the drama queen condom man wizard what's going on as long as the bad news isn't lamborghini bad news then we'll be okay no it's not bad news that's good because lamborghini bad news is usually like five or ten thousand dollars so good yeah it's not bad news like that okay where is the rack is it coming it is coming it is in customs right now good so it's in the united states it is in unite it's in cincinnati in fact wonderful so suburban any bad news there it had wasn't running before it wasn't we got a new fuel pump in it and it starts every time now wonderful so the air conditioning also didn't work so did you look at that yeah let's take a look under the hood is it good news it's good news so good news would be like a cap a little leak well no we have a new compressor oh so the good news is you get to charge me for a whole new compressor yes that's good news so good there's good news for you i suppose all right these are known to fail with this uh aluminum ship here it just leaks freon out of these these are very known to do that so yeah that looks like a brand new ac compressor and while this thing was up here i thought well let's do the shocks because they were original no big deal there right yep all four new shocks no big deal at all okay well uh so that's that's the good news that's good news and this one's ready to rock what's the good news on the corvettes it runs it drives it's got more power and it revs higher than it has ever since you had it so just the review i bought this thing had been sitting for about five years it hadn't started but it started right up the transmission needed to be put together it'd been swapped with a tremec five-speed originally this thing had a four-speed in it uh but uh after that well there were a lot of issues to go through the transmission getting put together was a pretty easy ordeal and it does feel very very nice but under the hood well there were some issues with sitting right yeah we got the cooling system flushed it was completely just clogged with rust all new antifreeze and overheating issue has been solved right and there was a valve adjustment there was a bent push rod yeah we found out that this has hydraulic lifters so we set it accordingly to that with zero lash and amazingly with the new carburetor and everything set up right it's got pretty good power it's just not the power i think that it should have i'm sensing this is where the bad news is there is some bad news here okay we did a compression test on this engine and i would like to see 200 or more psi on this engine yeah and this is just like the engine you see it here there's the front ah so this is each cylinder and you're thinking 200 is healthy range yeah that's where it should be on this engine oh 140 yeah 150. there's a couple of 160s there's a 140. uh it's kind of uneven something is not happy with the compression it should be a little bit higher than that and you can't fix it i could fix it but it's a tear down tear down yeah i thought you were a wizard what do you want me to do wave my wand at it so on the bottom end i'm very strong suspect that something's not right when this engine was assembled when this engine's warm the oil pressure is very low it doesn't go to zero but it's really low and there's a little bit of bottom end noise that i'm not liking so i'm very questionable about the bottom end of this motor the health of this engine based on this and also the oil pressure and some of the other things and it just doesn't have the power it should be able to just melt these tires and it doesn't so you think that the engine is going to be needing to get teared down soon torn down tear it down what am i i'm speaking right now here's that or replaced with another one that's good already done yeah because this isn't the numbers matching engine but honestly though i think i'm going to get a second opinion okay i think there is a wizard that i used to work with back in my dealer days that uh could probably fix this thing for 20 bucks 20 bucks yep 20 bucks i'll be right back i'll go get them okay and i'd like to meet this with yes i'll show you weezer i'm back where's this other wizard at oh i met him at autozone he came back with me he's a doctor actually not a wizard a doctor engine restorer and lubricant he restores compression restores horsepower restores engine life and reduces oil consumption what yes that's not a wizard that's a mechanic in a bottle well these are very popular among used car dealers but i never ever used one i never used it in my entire dealership existence i promise you but it does work it'll fix this engine licking split i'll drive this thing around the block and the compression will be way up just just pour it in pour it in just just do it oh you got your listening device there you know what this is a pretty crooked fix i'm going to let you fill it in fact i'm going to give you the crooked funnel because this is a crooked really yeah this is beneath you huh this is not something i think is going to help this engine but you're welcome to try are you mad oh no but i think that this is not a step to fix for this engine well we at least hold the camera for me i suppose thank you it's the child cap is already defeating me here don't spill it all over your paint that's pull the pen it's blue it's the same color as your paint yeah look at that you want to taste it no putting some blue goo in an engine yes it fixes everything it really does work wizard it really does you'll see you'll see okay i'll take her out and be back shortly and you won't believe the transformation wizard is lining the cylinder of your funnel even doing its job there it looks like they put a bunch of smurfs in a blender and ground them up maybe it is smurf juice uh i don't want to know the gargamels are onto something wizard they must be all right wizard i'll be back sorry about your funnel what is that stuff it's it's blue you're really not going to taste it no it looks like something i don't know something from a smurf i don't know okay all right well time for some science here i can hear the wizard inside working away at the cylinders yes all right well the wizard has definitely quieted it down as far as all the clatter that push rod but i do hear what he's hearing something something deeper yes something not so good well let's drive a little bit give the little wizard a chance to do his job and then we'll head back the steering does feel a lot better the wizard put on a new knuckle the thing was kind of clunky before and now that's a lot better it's not overheating which is good it's actually going down the road pretty smooth it is sad though not sure what the state of the engine was before it went into its five year long slumber but this is just kind of what happens you see all these videos of people starting their engines for the first time in 20 30 years and uh i imagine a lot of those engines come out in a similar state as this you don't really find out the afterwards after they get it running but i imagine that's the case with a lot of them and also a lot of the people who do those videos before they even try and start it they take out the spark plugs and squirt stuff in the cylinders lube everything up before they start cranking but this is the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube so i just got in and just cranked it and that may have been what did the damage obviously it bent a push rod we saw that in a previous video with a stuck valve but who knows what else was stuck that may have been less sticky if i had gone through and done the proper way of restoring an engine after a long-term slumber we'll see this thing's actually smoothing out pretty good fingers crossed all right let's try a little bit harder pull now it's there it's just still pretty doggy this transmission though this transmission is just wonderful well that's probably been long enough for the wizard in the bottle or the smurf excrement to do its job so head back to the wizards see if it's any better compression wise it doesn't feel too wonderful don't tell the wizard about that just keep this between you and me well wizard it felt it felt great it felt a thousand percent better really yes it did find that better i guess we're going to do scientific measuring though we can go off of your your compression here which the lowest one was the back passenger side at 140 yes back here so if it's back up to 180 190 200 then we know the engine is perfect it'll ask for another 250 000 miles no problem right i don't know about all that i really have my doubts about this engine okay well i have faith okay i have faith in the little blue smurf excrement wizard thing i'll pull the plug and we'll do a compression test on that cylinder then thank you okay what does it say 130 130 it went down it went down 10 psi how does it go down it's just hot everything's expanded okay well then maybe i just need to drive it more oh you need to drive it yeah i'll drive it in and it'll just clear out i have a bad prognosis for this engine i think it's not going to last very long that's what i think okay i guess we're going to have to agree to disagree he's probably right but i'll be on my way wizard so thank you not without paying the bill oh of course yes all right all right wizard all right my favorite part i tell you what if you bring any more mechanics in a bottle i'm gonna have to end up hitting the bottle pretty heavy here pretty soon wizard the comedian okay well it may still work maybe drive it some more i've never seen that stuff work let's let's see okay bills okay on the suburban yes we have 1257.48 how much was the compressor ah 300 for the compressor okay and then we got yeah the shocks i mean okay that's probably reasonable yeah the fuel pump is a little bit of a pain to do right the tank had to come down right okay all right reasonable corvette corvette with the carburetor 2547.66 so i spent 2 500 to figure out that my corvette needs an engine hey my work here is ninety nine point nine percent of that it is very effective the problem is you brought me a car that's ineffective yes yes so the engine is bad yes but you had to put the transmission together yes you had to fix all the issues with like the bent push rod and all that stuff to figure out if the engine's good or not right i had to flush the cooling system because it was overheating and the carburetor i would have needed anyway if i'm going to get a different engine or rebuild this one unless i went a totally different route like ls swapped it but that would be yeah maybe well i guess i'll pay you and then drive this thing a little bit more and figure out what i'm going to do well thank you wizard here's the card i don't i won't faint this time oh okay someday i'm going to get a car and it's just going to work out that doesn't happen very often there's very few of those days most times the wizard winning here like he is right now all right we'll just cruise corbin nice and easy no hot dogging i promise you just gotta hold together for a little bit while i figure out what the heck i'm gonna do about 30 miles back into town oh crap oh crap it's down on power oh crap getting off no oil pressure way overheated this motor's dead it's it's dead dead yeah oh okey-dokey so this old corvette made it about 10 miles down the road before it started losing oil pressure then it started losing power as i pulled off the side of the road it started overheating quite badly so this engine is dead my options are to rebuild this engine which isn't numbers matching isn't correct to the car at all that could take some time i don't know any local engine rebuilders i really don't know i could source a used engine which would probably be pretty hard to find or source a rebuilt engine uh something like a period correct 427 v8 which would be the right engine for this car or go crazy and do something like a seven liter ls swap do like the bigger block of the c6 z06 engine i saw a couple of those at the barrett-jackson auction that was very very neat but that would be very expensive the single is quite cheap so i do have room to do something fun with it uh but uh not the best timing with the lambo purchases and taxes and other things so i really don't know the only thing i do know is well thank you so much for watching yes thank you is that your smug look i'm not impressed how'd your mechanic in a bottle work not not well i didn't think it would [Laughter] it was locked up before wizard but now it runs should i drive it some more it sounds really really bad sounds fine let me know i'll be ready all right thanks dennis [Music] it smells like bearings

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Published: Fri Apr 23 2021