ANyone ever blow up there car w/ nitrous

ANyone ever blow up there car w/ nitrous

I daubt anyone has blown up there whole car but i have seen some engines blow and even some hicups blow the hood open.

i've seen a guy that left his bottle heater on for like 8-12 hours. For some reason the bottle blew befor the safty went. It took out the back of the car and badly damage his gerage:shock::eek: :irk:

I saw a truck catch on fire while staging to race. The announcer had just started with 'In the right lane is a beautiful 19xx pickup for sale, big block 562 (or some number), fully NHRA legal into the 9s, etc...when BOOM....flames engulfed the engine and started into the cabin. The driver jumped out and booked it over the wall. It was sad but funny.

not yet.........

I didnt literally blow up the whole car but I did break the ring land on the #1 piston. Now Im biulding a forged stroker:D

i had a nitrous backfire once. it was loud as hell ,shot flames out of the hood, cracked a ring, blew all the soundproff padding off the hood and blew my k&n cone air filter to shreds:eek:

Originally posted by baddest305
i had a nitrous backfire once. it was loud as hell ,shot flames out of the hood, cracked a ring, blew all the soundproff padding off the hood and blew my k&n cone air filter to shreds:eek:

damnnnn :eek: :eek: :eek: , it's that dangerous?? you dont have all the safety things??

there is no safety device that can stop a intake backfire, :p

there is no safety device that can stop a intake backfire

except for a window switch....

anyway... i've blown up 2 motors on nitrous.

the first one was a 383 with a 300 shot. the fuel pump took a dump, and it lost fuel pressure racing some mac daddy supra. 1 blown head gasket, 4 pistons with broken ring lands, and several rods that were bent.

2nd motor was a 388. i had a vortech with some nitrous on it. i just put the nitrous on it, and didnt have my window switch wired up yet. i was taking a friend for a bottle pass... armed the bottle and downshifted... the boost blew the intake hose off right after the MAF and it stalled. so we pulled over and got it put back on. just as we were getting back in the car a motorcycle went by (we were on the interstate). it was kinda hard to start after the MAF would blow off, so i gave it full throttle while starting it..... the nitrous was still armed, and sprayin away while i was cranking. let's just say... it cranked up with a huge cloud of black smoke and rev'ed up like i've never seen before. after that, the knock sensor wouldnt calm down... so i pulled it apart. clipped a plug, and that cylinders rod bearing and the main right next to it were down to the copper.

i'm hard on shizzit :)

i said stop doofus, it still can happen with a window switch........

Anyone ever take a lighter and a NOS bottle and crack the valve on the bottle while holding the lighter to the escaping Nitrous???

Someone try it and tell me what happens!

How big of a shot were you guys using to crack the piston or ring land?

i had a 100 shot in at the time. but a backfire does'nt care what shot is in the car;)

i said stop doofus, it still can happen with a window switch........

perhaps....

i've never seen it happen at any decent rpm. every time i've seen it happen to others, they've tried to spray outta the hole, or at a low rpm. it's never done it to me out of the years that i've been spraying. then again, i dont spray untill i have some decent RPMs going....

Anyone ever take a lighter and a NOS bottle and crack the valve on the bottle while holding the lighter to the escaping Nitrous???

Someone try it and tell me what happens!

i'd imagine it'd put the lighter out. nitrous isn't flammable.

Here's a question if i arm the system bye the main switch but i am running it off a wot switch would it puddle before i get to wot? or should i turn the hole thing on once i get going?

Originally posted by baddest305
i had a nitrous backfire once. it was loud as hell ,shot flames out of the hood, cracked a ring, blew all the soundproff padding off the hood and blew my k&n cone air filter to shreds:eek:

what caused it to back fired?? :confused: :confused: :confused:

back when i had the tpi set up in the car i was having problems running a 150 shot. car ran the same as the 100 shot. so my son was testing the power to the selonoids and i accidently pushed the carb to wot and it sprayed n2o into the cylinders. i checked the nos manual and it said to pull the coil and crank the engine, which i did. what the didn't say and i didn't think of was that the plugs needed to be pulled before cranking the engine, to clear the cylinders. so i thought it was all good and i drive the car down the street turn around armed the system and hit it. as soon as it hit it went kaboom:eek: scary as hell!!

I had a nitrous backfire because I was running about 1/8th of a tank of gas. I use a wet kit so it didn't have enough fuel to bring out of the tank and boom. Intake elbow, MAF, spark plugs, and even the LT1 tb nitrous plate needed to be replaced. I spray out of the hole on a WOT switch launching about 5 grand.

Moral of the story. Keep at least 1/4th a tank of gas with a wet kit. I got lucky it didn't do anything else to the engine.