Car blew up on 300 shot
Car blew up on 300 shot This is why you do not throw together any system. I know a guy that burnt his car to the ground recently spraying a 300 shot. His standalone system with 114 octane fuel caught on fire and boom!! The car burnt to the ground in minutes. Not sure of what caused the car to backfire but I will get better details and let you guys know. From what I have been told he had a rigged system made from several different manufactures. Sucks to be him. But luckily he made it out of the car before the standalone went up.
Last edited by rippenhard; Aug 7, 2006 at 05:53 AM.
Originally Posted by red90cobra
it wouldn't of burned so bad if he would of turned the bottle off. did they have a hard time putting it out? I know from experience. sucks though
Originally Posted by Hocky
Why would turning the bottle off have mattered? lol
That is what I was trying to figure out. To my understanding that nitrous isnt flammable. My guess is it was the really high octane fuel that caused the most damage.
nitrous isnt flamable, it just aids in the burning of the flame. kinda like blowing on a fire it gets hotter and burns more efficiently. it shouldnt matter if the bottle was on or not. the lines are stainless braided and the solenoid is at the end of the line keeping nitrous from exiting line. it had to be the high octane fuel to burn the car like that.
Originally Posted by jldak318
nitrous isnt flamable, it just aids in the burning of the flame. kinda like blowing on a fire it gets hotter and burns more efficiently. it shouldnt matter if the bottle was on or not. the lines are stainless braided and the solenoid is at the end of the line keeping nitrous from exiting line. it had to be the high octane fuel to burn the car like that.
Originally Posted by red90cobra
when mine backfired it burned up the nitrous line. the nitrous kept running. they could never get the fire out and I didn't even have a dedicated fuel system. it's like a fire having a fire during a hurricane. they went through 4-5 fire extengushers and gave up, then they asked if I had nitrous. I said yeah. I went to go turn it off and they got the fire out just like without even trying. Yes it's not flamable but it helps feed the fire if there's enough fuel for it. How much heat will a steel braided line take before letting go under 900 psi?
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Originally Posted by Area47
:::holds up lighter and cracks a nitrous bottle open:::
hmmm
flame went out
carry on
hmmm
flame went out
carry on
that doesn't work because there's not enough fuel to air I'll post a vid soon. so I can prove you guys wrong. did a little testing.
Originally Posted by rippenhard
It was a high 10 sec z28. It happened in OKC I believe on 39th st.
It happened the weekend before last. The car is a 6 speed 408 ci motor with a dual stage nitrous setup, he was spraying 200 out of the hole with a 100 second stage.
What I 'heard' is that he was trying to race some guy in a 3rd gen camaro. He tried to tell the guy in the 3rd gen to hold up a couple times because he couldn't get his purge to work. Eventually he just said f- it and decided to run anyways. He shouldn't have run, the car backfired, blew the intake off the car and completely disintegrated it, split the hood down the middle folding half of it back on to the windshield, shattering the windshield and the side windows (dunno about the side window part). Word is the car is totaled. The nitrous stayed armed and continued to shoot a '6 ft flame' in the air til it was gone. The guy driving got out okay and wasnt injured from what I hear.
Very lucky guy and it sucks that a faulty little problem ruined that car.
Take the story as I heard it with a grain of salt because it's just word of mouth based on what I was told from a couple people who had friends that were there.
Originally Posted by Area47
:::holds up lighter and cracks a nitrous bottle open:::
hmmm
flame went out
carry on
hmmm
flame went out
carry on
Robert
Originally Posted by red90cobra
Originally Posted by rippenhard
This is why you do not throw together any system. I know a guy that burnt his car to the ground recently spraying a 300 shot. His standalone system with 114 octane fuel caught on fire and boom!! The car burnt to the ground in minutes. Not sure of what caused the car to backfire but I will get better details and let you guys know. From what I have been told he had a rigged system made from several different manufactures. Sucks to be him. But luckily he made it out of the car before the standalone went up.
Peicing a system together has nothing to do with backfires. Backfires happen sometimes on wet kits and its a risk you take when you spray that way.
Originally Posted by Robert56
That proves nothing, same as lighting a match then blowing it out. There is no fuel to keep the fire going. See the video in thread on this issue, if there is enough fuel source it will excell the burn, like blowing on a small camp fire.
Robert
Robert