Having blown several engines myself I have yet to see scrapnel flying when one goes.......
Blew a Lancia Scorpion engine in Zero Degree weather.....at about 5,000 rpm when it let loose.......You can't inagine the steam cloud generated when a rod goes through a water jacket and through the block with a hot motor on a day that cold. You can't see 2 feet in front of you till it clears. Only engine that didn't contain all the parts inside itself.
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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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