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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the cylinder and can explode with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off, or split the block in half.
Momentarily. That's not a lot of time, but on the other hand the dragster's probably gone over 1000 feet in a moment.
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Momentarily is enough when...
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Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
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I agree, much better than the lame smog joke I was ruminating. 
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