At 04:40 PM 3/8/99 EST, you wrote:
>Not only do they take a heavy toll on flesh, they can tear up
>a car pretty well. The floor and tunnel get shredded and the dash usually
>takes a heavy dose, often trying to push it out through the windshield.
All in
>all, not something that you ever want to experience.
One of the flywheel explosions that I've seen was a (real) 427 Cobra,
fresh from the restoration shop - where they re-used a flywheel without
checking it. The flywheel let go at the end of the long straight at
Pueblo (CO) Motorsports Park. I don't know for sure how fast the engine
was turning, but it was very ugly indeed. The firewall was wiped clean
of everything mounted there, the hood was bulged up about 9 inches or
so. The driver escaped with a broken ankle and a cut foot and felt very
lucky that that was all the injury that he received.
John Lye
rjl6n@Virginia.edu
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