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1. Blowing a piston (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; Aron, Maybe you can help clear up a fuzzy picture in my mind. When you hear of somebody missing a shift and "airmailing a piston through the hood", is this just a figure of speech? What is the physi; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01312.html (7,687 bytes)
2. Re: Blowing a piston (score: 1): Author: "Lishego, Michael" <MIKESL@tartan.sapc.edu>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:27:45 EST; It's funny that you should mention "Airmailing" an object through the hood. The PO of both of my '77's drove a '72 roadster as his daily driver. Nice car, good mechanical shape, but nothing too speci; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01348.html (7,291 bytes)
3. Re: Blowing a piston (score: 1): Author: Aron Travis <atravis@spacey.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:22:33 -0700; It would be very unlikely that a piston could make it through the hood. Most pistons are aluminium and just don't have the mass to overcome a head or block. Now a rod....... Most of these terms are v; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01352.html (9,335 bytes)
4. Re: Blowing a piston (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:35:12 -0400; Well, a friend put a whole cylinder head through the hood of his audi trying to merge one time. The head seperated spectacularily and came right up into the hood, denting it heavily and showing throu; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01374.html (7,691 bytes)
5. Re: Blowing a piston (score: 1): Author: ninab@scoresheet.com (Nina Barton); Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:14:05 -0700; Well, for a pretty good "blowing a piston" story, read on. Back in 85, about a year after I bought the 71 GT, I was driving out to visit my mother with my two young daughters in the car. I had notice; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01411.html (8,317 bytes)
6. Re: Blowing a piston (score: 1): Author: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>; Date: 26 Jun 1997 10:00:47 -0500; Ah, yes, but recall that marvelous episode in "Maintaining the Breed" (Thornley) in which an MG at Montlhery blew a piston over the retaining wall. 'Course it was probably revving 10 grand or so....; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01423.html (7,387 bytes)

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