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Re: Flywheel explosions

To: malcox@napanet.net, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Flywheel explosions
From: Tombread@aol.com
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:05:28 EST
In a message dated 2/16/00 10:04:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
malcox@napanet.net writes:

<< Boy I'll bet that woke him up! >>
Speaking of the damage that can be done when something breaks:  I was in an 
IRL team shop today looking at the remains of an Olds engine where the small 
end of a connecting rod broke.  At high revs the connecting rod flailed its 
way like a knife right through the block in an arc, nearly cutting the block 
in half (and when the engine, a stressed member, breaks,  the back end falls 
on the ground).

Tom Butters
The Greens Fork Group
Creative Communications Services
765.886.5098
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