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Xrati said:
Actually Phil, the torque load would have deformed the block without the heat. It was a matter of design flaw. The material preformed well within it's specs, the actual stress of the crankshaft and the support of it were the biggest problems. A matter of New concept, Old design! 
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I wasn't saying it was the heat, just that the cooling heat sinks you put into the block weaken the structure. The materials fine, but the structure is weakened by lots of holes in it. Plastics (normally) having piss poor thermal conduction you'd need alot of water content to get the cooling.
It's true I haven't looked at US cars for oh... ever. Me not living there and all.
Most of the cars I see around here are metal bodied. Oh yeah plastic bumpers or whatever, but mainly metal bodies. Could be I'm just spectacularly unfortunate in all the new cars I see.