I've seen it happen,and not just to the Hemi---But the phrase you have to underline here is street race---lot of factors to figure in street racing------track conditions and properly set up cars are a different story----The 440 did muster a lot of its power early and with that torsion rear setup they did alright on street tires---Somedays you eat the bear, and somedays the bear eats you-----------I knew Rick (mr70) was into animals, so I just thru that in

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