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Was out at the drags tonight and at the top of 3rd i went to grab 4th and have accidentally grabbed 2nd at 140km/h. Car compression locked, but i managed to clutch it pretty much straight away.

Car is a r33 GTST S2, only thing that felt wrong afterwards was that i had no power steering, and i found the power steering belt wrapped around the alternator but still in one piece. Everything else seemed ok and i even put in 2 more runs afterwards.

Just wanting to see if there's any other things i should check after such a big, brief over-rev.

For those interested i ran a 13.6 with FMIC and 3inch exhaust at 10psi

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Thanks, i was pretty happy with the time, probably only about another .1 in it if id gotten everything perfect, most runs were 165km/h over the line so it was very consistant. Hey, on a cold night i might even get under 13.5. This was only on stocker rims aswell with the cheapest 205 tires money can buy.

But putting the new belt on today, i have no idea how i managed to pop the old one off, those things are on tight. I think i can count my lucky stars the cars still running, cause people who saw it thought id slammed on the brakes. Still ran a 14.1 aswell :D

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