Please help me diagnose this 273

There is another article about the birth of the 426 hemi and how they put it on a dyno before it was supposed to run at its first nascar race. After running it at full power it blew out webs in the block. So they had thicker webs cast into the block, machined it, and had it ready to race, just in time. Amazing what can be done when priorities are given to accomplish certain goals.


The story that I heard was that Richard Petty broke his block in testing before the first race... They identified the weak spots and beefed them up... Then cast his new block two weeks before the race and he won with that engine...

Richard Petty won the debut race for the Hemi with a fresh prototype block which is amazing...