NEGLECTED HYUNDAI MUSCLE!? EQUUS 5.0L TAU V8 Destroyed by Extended Oil Change Intervals #changeoil

TO BUY PARTS, Email us at [email protected] or go to www.importapart.com Today we tear into the most powerful Korean engine brought to North America, The 5.0L TAU V8. This is the engine from a 2012 Hyundai EQUUS with less than 94K miles on it and it is absolutely destroyed! How does an engine with so few miles turn into a pile of scrap metal? This is what happens when you don't change your oil often enough. Its much harder to recover from lack of maintenance than it is to stay on top of it, not to mention much cheaper! These engines are 3-4000$ before labor, markup, and fluids. The first iteration of TAU 5.0L V8 is a direct injected, DOHC all aluminum V8 making 429hp and 376lbft of torque, mower power than a first generation coyote! These engines were found starting in 2011 in the Genesis R-spec 5.0, and 2012 in the EQUUS. Later, these engines powered the Kia K9, Genesis G80 and G90. Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run Importapart, a full service auto dismantling business. Part of our model includes buying blown up and bad engines to dismantle for parts. We salvage the good serviceable parts and recycle the rest. We don't rebuild engines, merely supply parts to those who do. 00:00 Intro 03:06 Removing the intake manifold and looking at the intake ports. GROSS 05:33 Unbolting and removing the RH Valve cover. OH NOOOO0 07:18 Peeling off the LH Valve cover and ITS JUST AS BAD 08:03 Removing the LH Upper timing cover and variable valve timing solenoids to check for metal.... oh we found it alright 09:32 Removing the RH upper timing cover and timing solenoids and better? Kinda? 10:56 Unbolting the water pump pulley, water pump and checking condition 12:39 Checking the oil filter for metal contaminants... I could scrap that 13:53 Removing the Crank pulley bolt and crank pulley 14:31 Tickling all of the timing cover bolts out 14:56 OH, You thought that was it? HA 15:43 Prying the lower timing cover off 16:22 Inspecting the complete timing system. SOMEONE HAS BEEN HERE 17:01 Begin peeling off the timing components, tensioners and rails 18:23 Cramming the Sludge Caps off to remove cams and caps, LH Bank 19:51 Inspecting the LH Bank Valvetrain 21:08 Unbolting the cam tower 21:31 Cracking the headbolts loose and zipping them out. VIOLENCE 22:01 Lifting the RH Cylinder head. OH, OH, I Didn't expect that! 22:30 SCIENCE 24:22 Cramming the sludge caps loose on the RH Bank 25:14 Inspecting the RH Cylinder head's valve train 26:46 Cracking the RH Bank head bolts loose. WHY ARE THEY SO LOUD 27:25 Lifting the RH Cylinder head. AGAIN!? 27:47 MORE SCIENCE 28:44 Removing the timing chains and rails 30:25 Unbolting the lower oil pan. FULL OF TREASURE! 32:33 Turning the engine over to remove the upper oil pan and drain the fluids 35:01 CARNAGE CENTRAL. Yikes this blew up a little 35:42 Unbolting and disassembling the oil pump 37:50 Removing the bedplate 38:55 Unbolting the rods and pistons, what's left of them anyway 40:54 Complete bottom end inspection. Connecting rods, bearings, main bearings, pistons, block, Crankshaft, bores. ITS ALL NOT GOOD 45:38 Summary I really hope you enjoyed this video. As always I love all of the comments, feedback an even the criticism. Catch you on the next one! -Eric