Re: 2000 R/T bit the dust!!-RE RE

From: Tim (magnum318@uswest.net)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 21:29:49 EST


I wonder how he's gonna tell the insurance company about this one? Let along
his wife--If's he's married. --I'm sorry honey, a squarrel ran across the
road, and I tried to dodge it,and when I tried to do evasive manuvers by
giving it the "GAS" the engine blew up!

----- Original Message -----
From: The Coughlin Family <Coughlin@centuryinter.net>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 8:34 PM
Subject: DML: 2000 R/T bit the dust!!

> Hey guys, I was down at my local dragstrip where I usually spend my friday
> nights, and there's been a guy over there w/ a club cab R/T for the last
few
> weeks running and I hadn't talked to him, But last friday, he was running
a
> 200 shot of NOS and after running 8.91,8.95,&8.99, he made his 4th and
final
> pass.He tripped the lights at 8.99 again, but as soon as he hit the finish
> line, the truck went boom! He said the hood started to buckle when the
> cylinder haeds hit the bottomside and at that point the engine compartment
> caught on fire.I couldn't see the truck at this point as he had managed to
> pull off the track, but in a minute, here he comes, walking up the return
> road, picking peices of his intake manifold out of his arm.The truck
burned
> to the back of the cab and was extinguished.Come to find out, the boy
hadn't
> had the truck long, it was a brand new 2000 w/aproxxamately 3000 miles on
> it.Don't put NOS on your truck!!!! My freind's 98 318 5-spd truck was
> running a 75 shot and it cut a hole in the valve the size of a nickel and
> scorched a piston,but his was fixed under warranty!
>
>



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