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Go to the first post in this thread: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/44121-55mph-detonation-11.html
There is more than one thread with ventilated engines, but this one has a couple of good pictures of the momentarily ballistic parts. The rod, anyway.
This has nothing to do with the engines in question, but many of the modern top fuel drag engines record enough information to tell when something failed.
For example: You can see the exact crank position when one of the variables changes, such as air consumption, compression pressure...
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