F-Body N20 explosion in the hatch!
10-22-2008, 08:28 AM
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F-Body N20 explosion in the hatch! I hope this was nobody on here's car! It has a Mississippi plate
http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/in...topic=117747.0
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10-22-2008, 03:35 PM
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I know the guy. His bottle came out of a truck that had evidentally been on fire. The heat weakened the bottle, and it was in the sun in the heat of summer over filled for days. Pressure got to be too much, and BOOM. There was glass all over their roof, parts hundreds of feet in either direction. It was nasty.
10-22-2008, 04:25 PM
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Uhh, look at the pics kinda close. There are a few strange details there.
PLUS, unless it was defective or he plugged it, the pop off disc would have gone off.
PLUS, unless it was defective or he plugged it, the pop off disc would have gone off.
10-23-2008, 04:05 PM
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I dont think the disc was defective. jdiddyws6 posted that he knew the guy and the bottle came out of a truck that was in a fire. The fire weakened the bottle to the point that the it couldn't hold more pressure than the disc could so the bottle just burst instead of the disc. This is also the reason to buy a bottle heater and not to use a torch. The constant heat cycling with the torch weakens the metal.
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11-01-2008, 11:05 AM
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