Forgot to mention that the race footage was courtesy of Fullboost. Thanks guys

Taxi running 10's on gas is your white whale there Scotty! You've come this far man, don't give up on it, am sure many of us want to see it.

Thanks to the exporters of Barra blocks to the states for thinning out the block numbers. Good work knuckleheads. Keep them in Australia, Americans have so many choices.

Yep a 3 bar map sensor will only read something like 29 and change before it maxes out. Detonation is usually the cause of broken porcelain, the melted earth strap kind of backs up that it has been massively lean. The round mark in the bore is more than likely a ring mark from being sat so long. Remember gas tends to wash the bores so it is probably a ring mark. Will find out once you have it apart. And yes that mark at the top looks of the bore looks very sus. Can see this block heading for the bin.

Didn't know Zane was moonlighting as a proctologist with that "endoscopy equipment" 😂

Scotty might want to also check the hot side turbo for fin damage, those porcelain bits can do damage as they exist the engine into the turbo.

I think there is every reason to pull that engine, strip and give it a solid inspection. If you're going to go to that extent, and whether there's a split bore or not, I'd get rid of the LPG and go E85. While you're there ~ ultra-sound the bores and maybe think about sleeving them. Also, while you're there, bigger head-studs, and maybe a higher quality after-market oil pump. This has been around, and it started as a bit of a low-budget joke, but we're not really low budget any more. That means big head studs, better oil pump, maybe a bottom end girdle, but don't do any of that until you've had a good critical look over the block and made sure it is one that's worth the effort & expense. This means after-market rods & pistons and much better valve-springs, and ... and now I'm telling a professional how to do his own job. The point I'm trying to make, if you pull that engine and rebuild it, go E85, then you may as well put quality rods & pistons in it and toughen it up a bit. We are past the 'hundred dollar car' idea. It's not a hundred dollar car any more, hasn't been for some time.

Let's be honest, Turbo Taxi is just the Car that keeps on giving and giving.... Scotty heaches😢😢. But its been a while without a decent bit of Carnage, can't wait for this tear down.👍👍

Bummer! I’m surprised that you didn’t take it back to the dyno after you fixed the boost leak, but hindsight is always 20/20, I’m sure you didn’t have enough time to get it all done

10 seconds on lpg always came with risks, i wonder what the peak boost actually was... it is a taxi, chem weld and back to work! 😂

Oh man, Scotty, I'm seriously keeping my fingers crossed for you and that it turns out ok. I just want to give you a hug and get you a beer mate lol

been watching this car for years shes giving you hell all way through

Should put a pressure tester on coolant system whilst you have endo scope in the suspect cylinders, giving it a few pumps when scopes in will reveal leak source

I feel for ya Scotty. Don't give up. Best case for you is that its good content you are creating.

That looks like a LOT of heat in the combustion chamber to do that to the plugs. Could the boost leak have been protecting the engine and now that its gone, its sent it off the cliff? Now that you're going to have to pull everything apart anyway, now's the time to throw the LPG in the bin and go E85. LPG died and went to heaven for most a long time ago now so why persevere with it? Love your work Scotty, hope to meet you at HPR one day!

Welp, show's certainly living up to its name... Carnage for *miles*

When I didn't see it on Saturday I was afraid something like that has happened. Really sorry to see your weekend end so early, and I think you're right - if she'd held together just a fraction longer it was on track for a 10. All credit to you for what you've achieved so far with the LPG setup, I had one with injected gas that I never put on the strip (it was manual anyway) and I only got as far as 307rwkw and never pushed it like the Taxi has. I've been watching the series since the first episode when you bought the poor old thing and it's been a journey. Would still love to see it do a 10 even just once. Feels like this was more of an overboost issue than an LPG issue but we'll see what happens when you open it up. Can imagine the frustration but don't lose heart, lots of us love the car and what you've avhieved with it. Looking forward to seeing the motor pulled down on a future episode... of Carnage.

Scotty looking a lot trimmer and fitter - well done brother 😊

Lmao SEVERE detonation judging by those plugs!

I feel for you Scotty. I'm confident turbo taxi will make it to a 10 pass. Fingers crossed 🤞.

So THIS is why you named the show 'Carnage'...

This video explains why i didnt see you at ford v holden .... was looking for the taxi on the sat !! Dont give up on the 10's but dam that gas is a fight !!!!

Keep pushing mate awesome you can do it

If she just hung in there for 2 seconds longer scotty that would have been that 10 sec pass mate. Would be keen to see more about billet barra blocks & their machining scotty as we all know thats where we are going to end up. Could be good PR for a few Aussie companies there mate. Cheers Rick from NZ

JB Weld is in the toolbox for a reason, :) I'd sleeve it and grout fill, try using an inline pump to keep the LPG pressure constant (I've been using it for years) then run less than 68psi boost pressure. What's the chance the porcelain shattered from being quenched? If it happens that way, the valves are a good chance to be bent. What a kick to the nuts!

10s on LPG!!!!! keep it going, I wanna see it happen :)

FAARRRK mate, what a kick in the nuts that is! That funny squiggle line sure looked like a crack to me. That flat one is a bit odd and I hope it isn't what I think it is mate, either way I think the block is f#@ked and would make an awesome coffee table for the office.

Turbo Taxi still doing Turbo Taxi things! Slow clap! 👏

Ahhhhh Bugger ..... :-) In the BIN lol

I could be wrong, but it seems by the end of this video, you were ready to drop a house on this taxi. The joys of trying to go fast.. You always said it's difficult on LPG, and you ain't lyin!

Well, on the bright side, more content!

Commiserations Scotty, but you could do Scotty’s Endoscopy’s with that Bore Scope. Nice bit of gear.

Four years and the first thing I looked for…did they fix that effin brakelight😂😂 Bad luck on the head gasket. Next time.

This reminds me of the scottys garage days back in the vn!! Fixed camera angles

Bugger Scotty Bugger that thing was moving until.....

Still pretty good running them times with all the equipment, seats n stuff , some 10sec cars U see only have a roll cage inside the car U know

Well, it's not called Carnage for nothing 🤷‍♂️ but seriously it's interesting to watch your diagnosis of the situation, I enjoy the warts and all attitude of your show.

Might have gone to nunga nunga land but it pulled a 9! #cantstopturbotaxi

🤣 Intro to the video "Safe tune with all the protection!" first run immediately overboost and blows the engine. Mmmm must have been the safeTy Turbo 😅

Carnage on a Friday is a great way to start the day. It really sucks that this car is fighting you so badly. You're dedicated to '10's on gas', but man... I'd just do E85 and move on 😔

I have a JTG lpg liquid injection system in my XR6T and I still love it. No converters, just an in tank pump and 6 Siemens injectors and $1.20 a litre.

Geeeze it's a hard game

If ya have a Split bore ya certainly could Sleeve that particular Bore. Would make it heaps stronger in that bore as well

I like the t shirt choice. Keep on trucking

Thankfully the prices on greentops have climbed enough that you can sell that motor as-is and swap in an LS3!

Well Scotty mate you really go all the way, mate, how on earth did you not know that there's was a boost leak,( when it was at the dyno, anyway i hope the block is ok and just a head gasket, but the chamber which has a horizontal line and the little crack above it does not look good, but i hope she lives again. 🚗🚗✌👌👍

Hey Scotty long time viewer but never commented 😬 is there a particular year Barra block that is known for thin walls? I have a 2012 FG I got a few years back to build. But sucks in the states getting parts and prices. I pulled the plug on it and it’s sitting under my stairs in my garage🤷🏻‍♂️. I love these engines. My wallet just couldn’t keep up. Someday I’d love to have it in one of my cars. But doubt will ever happen at this point. Love the videos. Keep it up. I love the sound of these engines. 👍🏼

on this episode of carnage scotty says that's not good many times i had to rebuild the engine in my falcon egas ute back in march cylinder 3 lost its strap and porcelain put a hairline crack in the piston and yes its a prick of a job to do in the car took me 3 weeks of spare time still runs like a clock and no more foot meets firewall on an uphill onramp towing a 2.5t trailer when its 38c i've learned that lesson

Bit like optass😁

Yeeahh!!!

I jjst watched this on the roku box and after seing the scope vision i say save the block with by sleaving it and honing with new undersize pistons if the crack i seen is anything to by unless the craxk can be dremilled out and welded

One thing dad told me if ya get ya car dynoed if the tuner doesn't check or read ya plugs walk away. Sorry scotty thats a tuning issue.you can tune as much as you want but the sprak plugs never lie ecu doesn't live in the combustion chamber. Heat heat heat.peace

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the repair budget is rarely thought of with budget builds. very frustrating to see it broken before the goal again.

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TURBO TAXI has to do 10’s on LPG!

Have been dreading watching this video because Turbo Taxi 🚕 is awesome. Really, really want the car to succeed. Edited to add that I am relieved that I hadn't planned a turbo for my ex-taxi Vault. I want to see what a clueless idiot (me) can achieve with a naturally aspirated lpg car.

Def's saying you have a cracked bore,also looks like number 4 piston has a crack across

8:40: Commence "Dick Dale" style surf guitar music! Could the line in the bore be where the piston ring stopped?

So fixed the boost leak, burnt the plugs out of it and lifted the head? Ouch.

Scotty what have you don😜

Poor thing, what happened to the safeties? No boost cut? Using duty on a boost controller I've always ended up with more boost at heathcote due to the air up there. My car would hit the cut straight away when it was fine in Melbourne. Switched to target. Detonation kills plugs. Ditch the gas brother. It's good for BBQs.

Might be time to admit defeat on the LPG route and move to E85 and save some cash.

Sometimes you're on the cutting edge, other times you just bleed. RIP

I have never seen porcelain off a plug

woohoo

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Good old Ford casting quality huh? The positive is even if the quality control wasn't great, the Barra is still one of the easiest modern engines to work on. Was a great run right up to then anyway.

Yep, stock 3 BAR MAP sensors only go to 29 PSI...

The issues you guys keep running into in this thing is all too familiar with my car, money pit!!

Barra has left the chat

Stick with the vn no1s done a 10 with a stock bottom end yet...

Extremely hot plugs suddenly hit by coolant will have tips and porcelain part ways. No overboost protection? Dropped the ball not having a max boost protection in place don’t you think?

29psi. Not great not terrible.

Shame that running it on LPG is hard, I feel for you Scotty.. Maybe one more try or stuff it, just ditch the LPG all together!

E85 time

I'm sure I saw a Crack in number 4 a fine hair line crack

Taxi has really omen that's for sure think you've had the worst luck with this car out of them all.

Were the plugs pulled for inspection after the dyno run?

This gives me bad flash backs of 10 weeks ago when i did a very similar thing in my fg xr6t only i melted no.4 piston 😬 I was also on a heater ,could easily of been an 11.70/11.80 on only it's 250 kw tune 😳 #manual life lol I question the thin bore excuse tbh ,mine was bored 30 thou sonic tested and is mint, machine shop was saying u can go 60 thou and still be safe (u have to sleeve it at that point though) I follow barra shit daily, have for yrs, never heard anyone say anything about thin bores ,i reckon they're just making assumptions. Forget making assumptions and just tear it down and find out for sure 👍 I did the same with mine and i was completely wrong with my assumptions 🤣 10 weeks later and 6500$ it's back on the road 👌 Booked in for a retune next month to remove the dodgy tunes from the idiots who tuned it originally for previous owner, protections have been set to the moon, rev limiter moved to a suspected 7k (bad on stock pistons) 6200 is max for stock pistons. Have checked literally everything and everything checks out leaving only the tuning as the main culprit of my engine failure. Needless to say I'll never do business with that shop and will recommend others to stay away from them. I'm not the only one either, spoken to quite a few people who've had failures because of this shop in question, my machine shop cringed when i mentioned their name 😳 Surprising for such a well known company too...

LPG and 30 plus psi is death to a good engine ! Get rid of the lpg ! It’s hurting me to watch good motors going to an early grave from lean out and detonation. The top of that bore looks like a split . Maybe it can be sleeved ?

Haha thanks for addressing how the f that you knew head gasket, literally still on ur way down the strip, i was like ???? ..yehh scotty gas beenn arrround a while. 😂 Come on Scotty, tell us! What's ur guess at psi max after seeing those plugs. shes a fighter this one, Will. Not. Give it up!! Gas Research over ? RIP

If I remember correctly that was the engine that was destined to be in the Mazda, I feel like you might have dodged a bullet there given the power the Mazda is making.

Should have gone back on the dyno after the boost leak was fixed. Too much boost and too lean killed it. Not the tuners fault.

run some NOS with that LPG whats the worst that can happen lol ;-)

Wasn’t this the built motor Scotty?

Man that car hates you like all my junk hates me. Sorry it has become your bane Scotty.

Time for a K swap?

You jinxed it by saying tunnel vision put all these safety protections into it. Apart from overboost…

I think it's time to let it go RIP...personal opinion, not sure how the rest of guys feel. It's getting a little old and boring, put it away divert attention and funds to the Torana or any other build I'm real keen to see the Lexus engine combo what numbers it will do on the dyno and track. You boyz already have a crazy barra (mx5) doing 8s all day everyday we don't need to see it again.

Of course it broke.........It’s a FORD........

My opinion Get rid of the gas E85 all the way

Is it even a turbo taxi episode if it doesn't include damaging an engine?

I’m sure it’s possible to use LPG in a 10 second car, but gee whizz, it does seem to come with some unpleasant consequences…

Such a shame that the good engine ended up in the Miata.

maybe try take some weight out of it get some lighter wheels. what 60 foot did it run this time around ?

Time to cut the losses with LPG mate. Its killed several engines already im sure ACP don’t have an unlimited budget for the show build something with E85 and send it

4 yrs wow man thats before covid shit wow well from my armchair im calling the jets of the lpg and have you de-sludge the compressor i had it wen i left the car 2 yrs its got to have a new name ITS A GONNA WEN IT WANNA LOL ITS BLOWEN A SEAL NO NO HE JUST ATE AN ICE-CREAM LOL

Does NSP mean Nooooo Scotty please .. lol

Lot of people wanting to blame anyone everyone under the sun for this. Perhaps wait until the engine is pulled down and Scotty works out what went wrong?