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So darned sorry to hear about your failure but sounds like you are optimistic about the whole deal. I think water/meth injection might have saved this from happening. I would definitely install a system and converter while you have this engine rebuilt. Ya know, unless one has money to burn, you need to always have built in safety margins when increasing HP on any project. For example, on my twin turbo LLT, when I factor in the high static compression ratio, I limit myself to 10 or even maybe 12 PSI boost levels and find other ways to decrease ET's, such as rear gearing, high stall converters, water/meth injection and even a 50HP NOS shot. (used ONLY for launch, and at 4 to 5 PSI, it shuts down and turbos continue making all the HP) My LLT has all the above and is a beast. (And with a little margin of safety) Always have to know when to stop. There is always a limit and only a few short years ago, no one would ever have thought you could even get this much HP from these high compression, little engines. Still "WOW's" me every time I put the pedal to the metal!! And by the way, you have a very impressive build. I've done FI builds all my life and yours is one of the good ones. Gretchen's old build still remains KING!
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