I'll just blow on the fire and put it out...
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I was a nice new Pro style Camaro, Damn that was a big bang & fire ball, delayed reaction, too long of a fuse, I guess... I think it was the fire got to the fuel cell up front, more than a N20 fire though as they called it... BOOM
I was a nice new Pro style Camaro, Damn that was a big bang & fire ball, delayed reaction, too long of a fuse, I guess... I think it was the fire got to the fuel cell up front, more than a N20 fire though as they called it... BOOM
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Just proves the song we always sing about chevys.......start em up they spit and fart.....rev em up they blow apart...it's a chevy...it's a chevy....come on everybody sing....
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I've been close to two nitrous explosions. Both deafening to the point pain!! I hate the stuff, plain and simple. Yeah, I know it doesn't happen that often but once is too much. Now a days I never take out my ear plug while at the track and sure don't park next to anyone using the stuff if I can help it.
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At Sacramento Raceway I think it was many moons ago we were running a Calif. Outlaw Pro Stock organization, basically pro style door slammers with Blowers &/or Smack, this guy Doc Finnley had a car that was Lee Sheppard twin P/S car , {i think it was} he was warming his engine up in the staging lanes after doing a valve spring change in the pits, I think it was, what I was told anyway, they used carb & brake parts cleaner on the inside of the valve covers to clean them out, the young kid helping them put the covers back on with out wiping them down, we were right next to the guy in the staging lanes, it blew the valve cover off the motor right next to me, scared the holly crap out of me, "I almost $hit my fire-suit I think", my next round/pass I cut like a 1.2 second reaction time/light instead of my normal 0.425-0.450 RT, I had bad nausea for an hour or so afterwords too... Everyone thought it was a N20 explosion but it wasn't...
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Proof that money can't buy sense.
Freaked the cameraman out pretty good!
Freaked the cameraman out pretty good!
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You can tell if it's a N20 explosion for sure by the intake manifold, it will be like shrapnel & blown to pieces, other wise it's a hung valve or fuel explosion... You don't want to know how I know the difference...LOL...
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Yes they are all lucky. Having been on the recieving end of 2nd & 3rd degree burns (complete with a skin graft), I know first hand that fuel & flame can be a nasty combination.
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Yes they are all lucky. Having been on the recieving end of 2nd & 3rd degree burns (complete with a skin graft), I know first hand that fuel & flame can be a nasty combination.
Once again a most appropriate visual reference!
Sorry about your fuel mishap! Ouch!
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