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Old 11-20-2016, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by mgarblik View Post
Tom, Marty was so very lucky he put that car on the trailer when he did. Some kind of divine intervention. One more run would have been total engine destruction. No doubt the flexibility of the Program Engineering steel caps helped keep our lower end together along with the aluminum rods and light pistons.
I was truly amazed when he showed me the engine.

A perfect example of where the failures started and the sequence of the failures.
One in a Million for sure.

Tom V.

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