A4 back on the road

[Huw Powell]

> I wouldn't think this would be possible either but the facts indicate
> otherwise.  Do you suppose those pieces are ricocheting around the
> combustion chamber like a bullet in those old cartoons and when the
> intake valve opens the piece bounces out.

Exhaust valve, I think, at least some of the times - and then instead of 
simply exiting (at least to the cat, to die), the shrapnel hit the turbo 
expeller thing and got flung back up the manifold to re-enter via 
another valve.  Crazy stuff...

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Huw Powell

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