I've experienced too many epic disasters of my own to ever give anybody else a hard time. One of the more memorable ones was a sudden intake manifold gasket failure on a MOPAR 440 pull truck engine during a 6K+ RPM dyno run at over 700 HP. It caused the mixture to go very lean on one cylinder. Even with earmuffs and earplugs, the noise level was noticeable. Good thing, as I heard a little bit of a rattle that didn't sound exactly right. Before I could get off the throttle and back off the load, the engine had blown a half-dollar size hole in one piston! That was an expensive dyno pull, about a thousand dollars' worth of repairs before we could make another engine run! That engine ended up running for nine seasons with only the occasional freshen-up before the truck owner finally hand-grenaded it during a pull, though!
Jerry
