And so goes the drama that revolves around a recent catastrophic engine failure.
"Hey guys!...Look at this fcked up sht!"
I remember those days......
Knowing something inside the engine is gonna be so fcked up that you are almost glad when you find it. One more badge of honor to add to the shelf of mangled parts you can hang on the wall. The bent connecting rod, the piston w/ a valve head embedded in it, broken camshafts, crankshafts, blocks, the numerous pushrods bent into an "S" shape....everyone of those,..justification for why "I shoulda" vs why "I shouldn't had."
For instance: (From my personal experience)
"Yeah,......I
shoulda known better, and lifted when I saw the puff,... but I didn't."
That puff was compression gases escaping the deck of the R 302 block after the last HG failure.
Total bill for that "I
shoulda" was a new bare TFS R head. and a new 8.2" Dart block. Just so I could sell the whole thing as a fresh, ready to assemble EZ street car, and not have to part it out.
I
shouldn't had done that stupid sht in the first place.....Me in a -20, in my last orange and black car. Thinkin I was gonna be a big time race car driver.