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Old 12-30-2021, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Schurkey View Post
You saved me a lot of typing. The dyno is expensive enough... the real estate to put it in is even worse. And if the engine explodes catastrophically, that dyno room has to be strong enough to contain it so that flying connecting rods don't bash in your skull.

A well known dyno guy/efi expert built a 3000 hp dyno years ago.
All the best water brake stuff. Same for the dyno room/ and operators
console. His extremely expensive issue was a customers engine caught fire and burned down his dyno building (house was many feet away from the dyno building). Lots of things that can go wrong on that type of venture.

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