N2O baackfire = exploding hood.

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Jul 3, 2008 | 11:00 PM

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How much that thing cost?

Jul 4, 2008 | 02:08 AM

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Holy ****, it looked like Michael J. Fox was running the camera.

Jul 4, 2008 | 06:11 AM

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NHRA legal and has passed tech at a few different tracks and by NHRA guys. I was also hassled about a loose laptop, a big no/no around here. it's a police mount for an F-bod modded to fit the Vette.

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I take it, you prefer the right lane when data logging.

Jul 4, 2008 | 12:41 PM

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paul walker over here.

sweet *** first post!

Jul 4, 2008 | 05:17 PM

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the Firebird's hood has taken flight... and that sucks...
Whatever caused the backfire... congratulations on your success in not having pieces of the intake mani lodged in the hood... that usually costs a little more than the hood i believe.

Jul 4, 2008 | 07:22 PM

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Wow 102,000 miles with head/cam/n2o. Gives he hope with 91k

Jul 4, 2008 | 11:51 PM

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No doubt... Im believing that not having the filter in actually saved it from blowing (the intake) due to the back pressure not being there with no filter in.

Jul 6, 2008 | 09:56 AM

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Whoa!! You backfired through the air intake and blew that hood off like that?

WOW!! Really lucky!!

I'm a noob w. Nitrous but I'd think about having that bottle purged and refilled.

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Jul 6, 2008 | 10:02 AM

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What kind of condition are your valvesprings in? Pretty fresh?

Jul 6, 2008 | 10:18 AM

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Wow 102,000 miles with head/cam/n2o. Gives he hope with 91k

A good healthy high milage motor is actually pretty good for a N20 set up.A loose motor tends to be a good thing for N20..

Jul 6, 2008 | 12:15 PM

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What kind of condition are your valvesprings in? Pretty fresh?

Yea, i have Dart 205's.. Only ~2 years old and ~2K miles on them. i dont drive the car that much and it just sits during the winter.

Jul 6, 2008 | 03:09 PM

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So with the compression difference do you think you hurt something??Bent valve?Or put a groove cylinder wall?

Jul 8, 2008 | 05:33 PM

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do you think the burst disks in the bottom of your intake could have popped also? since its running good i would guess not, but would look if you have them

Jul 8, 2008 | 05:41 PM

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do you think the burst disks in the bottom of your intake could have popped also? since its running good i would guess not, but would look if you have them

Im sure if it did pop the car would not even run due to a huge vacum leak.

Im guessing the only reason it did not blow the intake up is due to me not running a filter and the way the "non stock ram air" hood is designed.

It made it pretty easy for the pressure to escape I suppose.. Or, maybe I just got lucky. But, it will prolly cost more to repair my hood (or get a new one) then to just buy a 90mm intake if it would have popped.

Jul 8, 2008 | 10:05 PM

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ya true... and another thing you can do just temp for the hood is install hood pins to hold the hood down until you get a new one...

Jul 8, 2008 | 10:21 PM

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ya true... and another thing you can do just temp for the hood is install hood pins to hold the hood down until you get a new one...

Yea, thats an option, but the top of the hood that went fyling is chipped up pretty bad in a few corners though.

A buddy said ~500 he can fix it completely.. If so, that pretty damn good I suppose.

Jul 8, 2008 | 10:38 PM

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Yea, thats an option, but the top of the hood that went fyling is chipped up pretty bad in a few corners though.

A buddy said ~500 he can fix it completely.. If so, that pretty damn good I suppose.

for a couple 100$ more and u got a new hood

Jul 8, 2008 | 10:41 PM

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for a couple 100$ more and u got a new hood

I looked on the suncoast creations webside and they are 695 If I remeber correctly. But, you have to keep in mind they come primered and ready for paint. So, you still have another ~400 - 600 bucks more for paint. All and all it be over 1K when done.

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