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Old 10-24-2008, 09:59 PM
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Hang around with the Slant racers. You'll be amazed at what you can break.

I've personally seen chunks of crank that were blown out on the track.

I have the first 10 second door car Slant block at my shop. It has a bunch of holes in it where rods came out on a burnout.

I've also seen a block that the small end of a rod broke off of at 6500 RPM. The rod stayed on the crank and sawed the block and head almost completely in half.

It is not unusual to see Slants with the starter knocked off of by the #5 rod coming out.

I've never broken a rod in my motor, but I did weld one up pretty good when the Mopar cam ate the drive gear off my oil pump. I saved the block, head, and 4 pistons out of that one.

Killed a couple pistons with the hose too.

Nothing is indestructable.
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