<VV> Collateral damage

[J R Read]

I guess that it depends on whether it was in solid or liquid form at the 
time.  There was obviously at least some melting involved.
Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Lee" <Chaz at ProperProper.com>
To: "Mark Durham" <62vair at gmail.com>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Collateral damage was done by piston break ? (1967 
Monza110 PG)


> I'm very curious about how such a large piece of my piston broke off with
> such a clean break, and apparently very recently since the surfaces are 
> not
> burned from running the engine for very long in that condition.
>
> www.yourbuyersinn.com/Cars/Corvair/1967MonzaDamageToPiston3.htm
>
> Also, how did such a large piece make it between the side of the piston 
> and
> the cylinder wall with doing some major damage to the walls ?
>