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Old 02-22-2007, 08:01 AM
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There is a good article published by Ford on the development of the GT 40 5.4 supercharged engine. Ford does the finite element analysis on the block and whole engine to verify it can live with the loads. There are diagrams of block twist and stresses revealed by the supercomputer doing the finite element analysis.

http://www.roushind.com/news_downloa...04-01-1252.pdf
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