FORENSIC REPORT FROM THE MAESTRO'S PORSCHE PATHOLOGY LAB:


AUTOPSY ON A 1963 356B SUPER:


     Over Easter, a dismembered 1963 356B Super arrived at the Maestro's
Forensic Porsche Pathology Lab for Autopsy and Resurrection.

     Among the pathological conditions found were two spun 
".00", 356 "B" rods  with blackened Big Ends, but with recently
replaced Rod Bearings that had run for only a short time before the engine
was Dismembered for a second time.

     Following the second dismemberment, the engine pieces were
buried in a garage-grave for a decade in several 
boxes, until UPS arrived to pick them up for shipment to The Golden State.

     Autopsy also found a Rather Rare Disease of #4 Main Bearing
in the Third Piece of the Case, which is the Morbidity Committee's Question
for the day. 

     Evidence indicates that A Foreign Body was somehow led into the 
spinning crank by the co-conspirator- the oil lead-in groove in 
the #4 Main Bearing.

     But the Foreign Particle was significantly larger than the Oil Clearance
between the crank and the #4 Main Bearing, so when the Foreign Particle 
hit the end of the bearing lead-in groove it became Intimate with 
the rapidly spinning crankshaft.

     The Foreign Particle got "WANGED" (technical term) into both the crank
and the #4 bearing with such force that it left a rather large 
"WOWIE" (another technical term) in both the Crank and the #4 Main Bearing.

     The Question for the Morbidity Committee is:

     What was this Foreign Particle and where did it come from? 

     And Why?