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10-17-2008, 03:40 PM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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|  Nitrous explotion, distroys Trans Am  :-(no fire, just air pressure damage      bottle just peeled like a banana, appears to be a composite tank if thats the inside were seeing in the first pic, although the breaks look clean more like a standard metal tank. only background that was found, was that the bottle was bought used, and came out of a truck that caught fire.(and weakened it) obviously the blowdown tube/safety pressure release valve didnt do there job either. no word on weather the driver was inside, what cause the pressure build up. (sun, bottle warmer left on, etc) ive left mine in the car plenty of times in the texas heat and it rarely ever reached 1000 psi. i can only imagine the boom and shrapnel with that thing went off |
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10-17-2008, 03:48 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: In a state of eternal chaos
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i can only imagine the boom and shrapnel with that thing went off [/quote]What! Did you say something? |
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10-17-2008, 03:54 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
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10-17-2008, 05:57 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Saginaw
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Pfff, that'll buff out...
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10-17-2008, 06:47 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Wasilla
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10-17-2008, 07:25 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: *
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The world's a better place with one less F-body on the road...  |
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10-17-2008, 08:07 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
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10-17-2008, 08:39 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: spring hill TN
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It looks to me to be aluminum and if the black paint on it is factory then it is more than likely a Nitrous ProFlow bottle. Most pop offs do not blow until 3000psi and there is always the chance that if the bottle was out of something that caught fire it popped then and someone stuck a penny in it and screwed it back on. |
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10-18-2008, 06:03 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Great Britain
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Damn that must have made some noise when it went off. Still at least it didn't happen to a nice car  .
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10-18-2008, 10:07 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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I've heard of this before, there was a Nissan Maxima (second gen I think) that had that happen in the home owners garage and it literally blew the whole back of the car apart (atleast the Bird was a hathcback!) I also remember one of the old Hot Rod Magazine Fastest "Street" Car competetors (early 90's) having a tank blow while re filling it, IIRC it took out a wall of his shop, damaged his Nova, nearly killed him and his crew chief, and they found bits of tank atleast a quarter mile away Main reason I only beleive in displacement and/or boost, plus you don't have to worry about BS open bottle valve laws or have to put tattle tale HAZMAT stickers on the car Can you imagine how much more that would suck for the car owner if it happened in an airport parking lot! Last edited by BJoe; 10-18-2008 at 10:09 PM. |
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10-19-2008, 02:15 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Santa Rosa
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In California, if you are in a wreck and somebody is injured or killed and you have an open (i heard possibly closed too) nitrous bottle you will actually be charged with a felony attempted vehicular manslaughter or vehicular manslaughter. Also, this pretty much goes for any state, most insurance companies will cancel your policy if you have nitrous in your car. Nitrous is usually an exlusion in the policy. So read the policy carefully!! | |
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10-19-2008, 10:34 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Fremont/Newark, California
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That sucks....good excuse to build a turbo motor now |
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10-19-2008, 10:59 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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10-20-2008, 06:34 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: in da hieghts
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i've seen a few bottle in the past do that. both times it was a bottle heater. one was a old school nos bottle heater and other was a bad temp switch. my friend runs a speed shop in sac he was telling me how common it is to see a carbon fiber wrap bottle with burn marks and cap off blow off valves (scary especial in side the car) |
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