In <33B16FF9.3CBF@spacey.net>, Aron Travis wrote:
>Scott Gardner wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>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.......
>
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....
A. B. Bonds
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