
02-18-2004, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: so cal,
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Cobra Make, Engine: I used to fix them for a living
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Shop I worked in we built plenty of +500 HP windsors and waranteed them, and never had a bottom end failure*, and we never used a main cap girdle. 2-bolt blocks, ARP studs, 7000 rpm.
*that would have been prevented by a girdle
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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