Block girdles, yay or nay

What I’ve seen is fractures in the pan bolt holes and out from there.

The pan bolts were never designed to carry a load like that. Neither were the pan rails themselves.

I've never experienced this and I've removed whole sections of the sides of the big blocks but then again I'm not making more than 800HP either J.Rob

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