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**Lunims** · 01-02-2011, 08:08 AM

Exactly. I showed a motor engineer the video and he described what happened.

The block broke just below the chambers, the head was still attached. He said that tractor racers pull 2-3K HP out of a block intended for 500. Usually they use reinforcement bolts that go through the head into the lower block that prevent the head from blowing off - hard to see if those bolts exist in the video.

The crank bolts couldnt hold the engine to the crank and not the head. You can see the crank still attached to the tranny.

01-02-2011, 08:08 AM	#1
Lunims Join Date Nov 2005 Location CA Posts 601 Senior Member	Exactly. I showed a motor engineer the video and he described what happened. The block broke just below the chambers, the head was still attached. He said that tractor racers pull 2-3K HP out of a block intended for 500. Usually they use reinforcement bolts that go through the head into the lower block that prevent the head from blowing off - hard to see if those bolts exist in the video. The crank bolts couldnt hold the engine to the crank and not the head. You can see the crank still attached to the tranny.
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