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He'll lose half his face but at least he'll be able to see that in a mirror!

When I upped the power substantially in my Dodge, I replaced the cast aluminum bell housing with a forged steel one, because I like my feet.

The Whittle story is a little more involved than that. His first run didn't go boom, but it did go out of control, get red-hot, and need to be shut down by cutting off the fuel pump. It didn't stop immediately, though, which is a terrifying failure mode.

It took him a couple of years to sort out the design problem that led to unburnt fuel pooling where it shouldn't.