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Spectator
I don't really see how billet or recast blocks would be a performance advantage

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Spectator
Billet or recast blocks would eliminate the risk of an explosion like this to ever happen again in hot farm.

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Probably be a wiser idea to determine the root cause of the failure before “needing” billet/recast options. OEM blocks have held a lot more power and torque than a hot farm makes.

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Shell Answer Man
Another vote for making sure of the cause of the failure.
Excess load of nitrous, or nitromethane??

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Shell Answer Man
Another vote for making sure of the cause of the failure.
Excess load of nitrous, or

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cpr
I'm with Brian on this one. Safety equipment all did what it was supposed to. I'd leave it alone and chalk it up to a racing accident. Hope they fix it and come back out, that thing was/is gorgeous.

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Easy Brian, that’s a pretty common assumption as over the years the aforementioned have caused several spectacular displays of pulling tractor devastation. It is not in the least common for a 160 hp block as you say pitch itself at that low of a power level so you’re going to get a lot of critical speculation on the cause of it. Now I don’t know the owners of this machine but watching this video that was my initial thought as well. I assume you know them well and from your response it’s clear that you believe they are on the up and up which is great to hear. Possibly it was stress cracked from freezing in a past life, maybe a water nozzle blew apart and hydrauliced a cylinder. There’s a slight few other possibilities that would cause it at your level. Maybe next time don’t be so harsh and just say you are certain that wasn’t the case here.

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Easy Brian, that’s a pretty common assumption as over the years the aforementioned have caused several spectacular displays of pulling tractor devastation. It is not in the least common for a 160 hp block as you say pitch itself at that low of a power level so you’re going to get a lot of critical speculation on the cause of it. Now I don’t know the owners of this machine but watching this video that was my initial thought as well. I assume you know them well and from your response it’s clear that you believe they are on the up and up which is great to hear. Possibly it was stress cracked from freezing in a past life, maybe a water nozzle blew apart and hydrauliced a cylinder. There’s a slight few other possibilities that would cause it at your level. Maybe next time don’t be so harsh and just say you are certain that wasn’t the case here.


Exactly why don't you show your info .and I don't care what you think is harsh .. When you know facts you don't care about hurting some nameless shi+ Stirrer ..and I believe 1000% the block just let go and not because of any illegal wrong doing .. Pressure on the block and head every pass would eventually weaken it