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« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2009, 12:55:20 PM »
Watched the Mustang run at the TX Mile last spring kept blowing hoses off at above 180 if I remember!!!!!!!!11

Yes, most intercooler plumbing is not made to handle the kind of boost a bombed diesel will generate.  A "mild" build would be 50psig, going up to 120psig on some of the sledpullers.  We blew up intercooler hoses at B'Ville.  First pass at ~202mph, and about 2.7 miles, it sounded like a grenade went off, so I shut-off and pulled the chute, and still coasted to a 193? on the 2-3.  People heard the pop at the start line.  Second pass, blew a hose also but a busted piston is what sent us home.  It actually tears through the 5-layer silicone couplers, it doesn't "slip-off".  We need metal flex couplers, but they are $$$.