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Old 15-05-2010, 19:24
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Originally Posted by 30psi View Post
Well it depends, if you're a lunatic trying, drifting, dumping the clutch etc then a weakness in those bolts will show up.

In my old S12 I had the bolts shear on the inlet side. The engine dropped a few inches. It didn't drop any further because the oil filter stuff itself in to the side of the amount. Made a hole in the oil filter though.

your failure was due to difference in bolt length and thread depth in the block I seem to remember??. I think it would have been fine if the difference had been identified before.
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