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Originally Posted by mike britt
In this case the flexplate did not break or come out. It was still bolted to the crankshaft. What happened was the ring gear welds came loose and the ring gear started coming apart in pieces. I found one piece about 2 inches long by the accelerator pedal in bills car. It looked like a stock flexplate to me, but the rules did not require the car to have an SFI flexplate.
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Mike was this a stock case 200, by any chance? Did it sustain a lot of damage too?
This just occurred to me .This, being a Chevy II with fenderwell headers, the car didn't have much in the way under it to absorb and block some of the explosion.
With Jimmy Jr. on the right in the waterbox, it sounds like he was caught in a perfect storm, so to speak..Lucky, lucky ,lucky!