- It's a blood bath.
(evil laughter)
What happens if you replace your car's engine oil
with actual blood?
Today we're gonna be testing various fluids
in our car to see how they compare to motor oil.
Is this stupid, or could it actually work?
If you're in a pinch and needed to lubricate your engine
- Things are about to get weird.
- All right, Justin, imagine this suppose you're out
in the middle of nowhere on your way to the big barbecue
and all of a sudden the oil light comes on your dash.
You're totally outta oil.
Maybe your engine burn it all up
or maybe you have a cracked oil pan.
- Oh no. - Either way.
You have to fill that engine with something
or else your engine's just gonna seize
up and you're not gonna make it to the big barbecue.
But you're in luck
'cause you just so happen to have some fluids in your trunk.
- We've got one alternative from the automotive world
and then is automatic transmission fluid.
- Always gotta jug of that in the trunk.
- Right?
- And that's actually a type
of oil design for hydraulic systems
so it could work okay.
- You know, we got a totally different type of oil.
Canola oil, typically used for cooking food.
Canola oil is considered one
of the best oils for heart health.
So maybe good for our engine,
and fun fact that I just learned
about canola oil. Canola stands for Canada Oil Low Acid.
Hell yeah,
Canada, looking out for our hearts.
- Speaking of Canada, we've got a food
which at least on paper has something
in common with oil and that's maple syrup.
It should have about the same viscosity as 30 weight
motor oil.
And we're gonna demonstrate viscosity
in just a minute to see exactly what that means.
- Mm my favorite fluid yet.
- And finally last, but certainly not least,
we've got a fluid that each
and every one of us carries around all the time: blood.
- Oh?
- You've got five
or six quarts of this stuff on you right now.
- I'm just gonna imagine we have the whole pig
in the trunk and we're bringing it to the big barbecue.
- Yeah. Yeah. That makes more sense. I guess.
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Now, who do I have to talk to
to get my catfish Camaro in here?
Huh? Anybody around? You, Ma'am with the blazer?
Nope. Nope.
You're not. Nope.
- Now of course replacing engine oil
with blood seems crazy. Insane, you might say,
but there is something
to that lifeblood of your engine claim.
You know, the oiling system
in your engine does have some things
in common with the circulatory system in your body.
Your engine has an oil pump
which keeps it circulating like a heart.
And there are oil galleries
and passages of varying sizes running throughout the engine
just like arteries, veins and capillaries in your body.
And your engine has an oil filter
which kind of works like your body's kidneys
filtering out all the gunk oil and blood.
Do some similar jobs, both act as coolant, transferring heat
from inside to the surrounding air and both filter
out impurities, making your engine and body last longer.
Of course, the most important job of oil is lubrication.
And that's where the similarities
with blood start to fall apart.
(laughter)
Now both oil and blood
aren't entirely composed of fluid, unlike pure water,
for example, these are suspensions.
And that means that they're a mixture of tiny solids
within the fluid. Blood contains a lot more solids than oil,
and that's what helps it to form clots, preventing you
from bleeding out when you get just a small cut,
but those solids might also make for a really
poor replacement for oil.
We don't know exactly what's gonna happen if we put these
in an engine, but one way we can see differences
between them is
by comparing their viscosity with our little rig.
- Viscosity is a fluid's resistance to flow.
Oil is often described by its weight.
And that is the measure of its viscosity.
A 40 weight oil has a higher viscosity than the 30 weight.
So if we can show you exactly the different viscosities
of each of these fluids.
We have this little rig set up.
We're gonna pour them down this little shoot
and see which one moves the fastest.
And then they're all mixed in the bottom
and it'll get a nice
ugly mess for Jimmy to clean up.
- Whichever fluid gets to the end of the slide
first has the lowest viscosity, and inversely
whichever takes the longest to get to the bottom
of the slide has the highest viscosity.
That's gross.
- Ready to go?
- Yeah. - 3, 2, 1.
- Oh.
- Oh that's gross.
- Oh that is a oh, that is not a good sound.
Oh wow. It's like a perfect gradient.
Yeah.
- Yeah. That's pretty good.
We got blood outside of the test track.
- Yeah.
That means it's splashed so hard.
'cause it's so, so hard.
Low viscosity.
- Cool.
- Well, let's go heat these things up and see what
the difference is once they've hit
like operating temperature.
- Yeah. See if they stick to the same order.
- Yeah, exactly.
- So we've got our totally scientific heat cycle test here.
We're gonna microwave the same amount of each fluid
and then we'll do the same viscosity test to
see which one performs the best.
- The viscosity
of almost all liquids decreases as temperature rises.
So hot liquids flow way faster.
Meaning they lose their effectiveness as lubricants
motor oil, totally bucks that trend with additives
but modified viscosity for different temperatures.
- It all looks exactly the same except for blood.
- Oh God.
- Ooh. Look at the blood.
- Oh my God.
- Blood's at 174,
ATF is at 102,
Canola's at 147,
Maple syrup's at 200,
and then the engine oil is at a cool 95.
- Wow. It seems like it's better
at dealing with heat then the rest, especially blood.
I don't, I'm gonna have to go home.
- What?
- I don't oh no.
- Oh no.
- Today got so gross so quick,
and you don't even have enough blood left
'cause it's all hard,
black gunk now.
- No. Oh God please no.
- I can't believe what I'm looking at.
- Oh God.
- 3, 2, 1
- Oh.
- That is certified disgusting.
Oh yeah.
Syrup really thinned out.
- Yeah.
- He's passing the blood.
- Yeah.
- The blood probably like thickened up with, with
the cooking of it.
- Plus there was less of it in the tube because it
- That's true too.
It hit later.
- So engine oil looked great
because it's doing what it's supposed to do.
- It's also at like half the temperature of everything else.
That just goes to show how good engine oil is
at dealing with heat, which is super important in an engine.
But I think Canola oil's probably the closest to engine oil
and blood's probably the furthest.
- Yeah.
- So what do you say?
We put both of those things in an engine.
- I say let's do it.
That was brave, picking it up by the top.
- All right.
We got the perfect candidate to put weird fluids
into an engine.
We got Rodney the Regal here.
It's been through Hell and back.
We cut the top off with jaws of life recently
and really thing's destined for the junkyard.
So we figured we'd expedite things
and run a little blood through the old heart.
Justin, I've never seen a more insane way
of jacking up a car.
- That's the one
and only way: by the middle in the back to get the front up.
We got the old real engine oil all drained out.
We got a new oil filter on there.
This thing is bone dry, but we're gonna fill it
up with four and a half quarts of Canola oil,
let it run for a while, and see what happens.
- You ready?
- Wee.
- All right,
while you do that.
I'll work on this.
- There we go.
- All filled up?
- We're good.
- Yeah. Wow.
- Did it always make that high pitch noise?
- Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. We're getting a little smoke down here
but that's largely all the gunk that's on the exhaust.
We can still see the valve train in there
operating.
Kind of runs better than it did before.
- Honestly. Pretty impressive.
- Oh
- Okay. Well after about 10 minutes of running
with just canola oil in the engine, a bunch of revs
we got up to operating temperature.
You can still run it.
- Yeah. I think we'll get there.
- Yeah.
I think that might in a pinch get you to the barbecue,
but now I'd like to drain this Canola oil
and replace it with blood.
- It smells like McDonald's out here.
(dramatic music)
- It's time.
It's time for our sacrifice.
Now it's blood time.
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Hell yeah, brother.
- Oh God.
- Oh God. It's so much blood
- Oh no, there's solids!
- Blood is in the engine.
Justin's in the car.
It's fired up.
- Running. Oh it stinks already.
- Keep her going, baby.
Keep it going.
Ah, that sounds like a bearing.
Starting to spin.
- The oil light just came on.
- Blood smoke blowing' at us...
- Oh no, that's all she wrote.
- She's cooked.
Smells awful.
But from the looks of it, all this smoke
you might think we made it to the big old BBQ,
- and we made our own together.
- Oh no.
- It's on fire.
- Dump blood on it! Who's got the blood?
- Dude, who knew that blood was flammable?
- All right.
That's probably good.
- Well, I guess we really got to the bottom of things today.
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- Have a good one.