[CTMike]

Originally Posted by Chrisyphus

Fellas... these are nuts that are approximately 4" below the velocity stack opening. I reckon if ever you're in a situation where the nut has the opportunity to bounce up that high and then land back inside one of the cylinders, your car is totaled. Not because of the nut, but because you just flew through the air and/or rolled.


However, I am nothing if not thorough... we employed a high-tech and revolutionary technique: lock nuts. Every nut is a lock nut. Even if forget to torque them to 10Nm, they will not come loose.

Also, because nothing is actually safe without redundancy, we gave each screw a touch of Red Locktite.

I am very confident that these two measures will ensure that whether there's an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the lock nuts, operator error in missing a screw with Locktite, or any other disaster, you don't need to worry about the nuts.

I mean…