On that last post I mentioned FLYWHEEL, and CLUTCH because as a high school shop guy I had some experince with that..

I took a 283 and put powerpack heads on it. I added a radical cam, very radical! I even drilled and pinned the rocker studs. Then I dropped the whole thing into the only body I could lay hands on. BTW, I built it in my living room, what a great mom. Painted the engine metal flake fuischa. Then my buddy and I had to carry it out the front door and down three steps. Groan! Stewpid kids.

Well I stuck it into, (don't laugh), a 64 white Chevy Belair station wagon, with three-on-the-tree. Hey!, I couldn't afford a nice Hurst shifter!!

Well when you stomped on it, this thing really got with the program. It was my first experience with a major camshaft. It was truly amazing what happened when that cam came on... It just pinned you to the seat! It felt like two more engines suddenly came online! I didn't have a tack so I never knew when it actually came on.

Well one day my buddy with his stinkin FoundOnRoadDead Mustang (it was really nice actually) was ahead of me at the light, after school. We decided to have a quicky. We went across the main street thru the light, I took the right lane and we did a rolling start.

About two hundred feet down the road she came on the cam. Well, it was only a single block race so it was destined to be a short race. But this caused me to keep it in first just a little longer.

About three hundred feet down the road the clutch let go. The bell housing shattered. Chunks the size of playing card decks came thru the bell housing, thru the floor boards, thru the carpet, thru the glove box, thru the dash board, thru the windshield!!!
Other pieces tore seven chunks out of the asphalt, (they remained there for more than twenty years).

One of the playing card decks hit the road then flew 40 feet thru the air and hit a front porch ship-lap wall. It passed thu it like a hot knife thru butter came out the back ship-lap then went thru the front wall of the house stopping against the sheetrock on the inner wall.

The front was cut off the transmission. This caused it to drop on the ground..

Well luckily, no one was injured, very lucky!. A lot of friends appeared. After wiring up the tranny so we could at least push it, we pushed it 2 blocks to my driveway, . After inspection the body was deemed too screwed up to repair. Even the frame was damaged. So I pulled the engine. After a while, I put a stock came in it and put it into my Mom's 67 Impala, <sniff, sniff>

So... I beeeelieve in high quality flywheels, clutches, explosion shields, and REDLINES now. And I check those flywheel and clutch specs. I never use whatever is laying around. I make sure of clutch and flywheel pedigrees.