Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Oh lord, you know it did. Should have tried the sticking tongue trick too.
My guess is it was an oily handprint on cold metal.....then got hot. I used to dabble in hot rod boats. Inevitably some jack ass would put their hands on the chrome headers before a pass. After the heat cycle in was permanent.
 
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Some of those inline 6s are mean. The front engine dragsters with them in Australia are pretty cool. I almost bought an Apache with a built inline
I watched video where some of the heavily sponsored guys on Horsepower TV took a Ford 300, making 80 Horsepower and exceeded 400 Horsepower with lots of mods. It was educational. They did it in stages. The last stage was ridiculous. They custom fabricated turbo plumbing. If memory serves the intake side went under the oil pan. It won't work in a vehicle, but it did work on am engine stand. I read somewhere "After the Nuclear Apocalypse there will be cockroaches and Ford 300's still living."

I've got the want to find a Tacoma, or 80's "Toyota truck" and stick a Ford 300 in it with a 5 speed manual.
 
Why "cope cages" on tanks do NOT work:

In recent years, metal cupolas nicknamed "cope cages" have been seen attached to the top of tanks in various countries in a constant state of war like Russia, Ukraine, Myanmar, Israel, and Syria in the advent of the proliferation of top attack antitank munitions and drone delivered EFP mines that target a tank's most vulnerable part, the thinly armored top. The idea behind the cages is to provide space for an EFP blast to lose enough of it's velocity that it would not be able to penetrate the vehicle after a certain range. In reality though, an EFP blast is like a superpowered plasma shotgun delivering a blast of molten metal droplets at velocities of up to 23,000 FEET PER SECOND. A few additional feet of space around an EFP blast does absolutely nothing to mitigate the sheer force behind the directed explosion, as this slow motion shot of a TOW missile versus a modern MBT shows:




The only thing in existence so far that has proved to be able to counteract an EFP attack is explosive-reactive armor.