[DeTomaso] top 10 performance upgrades

[adin at frontier.net]

Yeah, this is why . . . .

Quoting MikeLDrew at aol.com:

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> In a message dated 1/2/07 9 55 20, teampantera at yahoo.com writes:
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>> can't remember who it was but obviously if its not urban myth he got
>> sprayed with hot coolant and cockpit immediately filled with steam.  
>>  our resident
>> historians (Mikey or Jack) probablf know who it might have been.
>>
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>>>> I don't remember exactly who totalled their Panteras, but I do know that
> it has happened to more people than you might imagine--I can think of several
> instances off the top of my head, including one that was documented   
> in the POCA
> newsletter about 15+ years ago.   The Dallas club was out playing at the
> dragstrip, and a guy lost a hose about 3/4 of the way down track,   
> which burned his
> foot instantly, and also fogged up the glass so he couldn't see.   WHAM!!!!!!
>   He hit the guardrail and totally demolished the car. :<(
>
> Lots of other people have had less-catastrophic failures; if the hose splits
> at lower rpm, it will just dribble hot water on your foot and perhaps burn
> you.   Still nothing you want to fool around with.
>
> Bottom line--if you EVER use your heater, and if you don't know for a FACT
> when your hoses were changed, you need to change them!
>
> Mike
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