6000 rpm

This ,and even fan shroud explosions,really do damage... In a '70 El Camino ,rat combo... hat a fan shroud come unmounted ,at 6000 in second gear.. Took a lot of heat shrinking ,& dollying plus the "secret sauce", to repair it...
secret sauce -LOL. I know a guy that used to race a Camaro. he had a balancer come apart when he was checking the total timing one sunday at the strip. knocked him cold, they took him to the hospital, later returned and watched the race. at last count, he went thru " 57 " 427 chevy engines in the 14 yrs that we ran the hemi. his car was stripped , fender wells and the hole bit. ours was at that time, (a legal s.s d/a . he was always about a .010 faster than us.