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Re: NOS Horror story...



Just one more reason to be all motor :)

Joe

>Ok, I was at the local Club H20 meeting tonight kickin it with about 30
>other guys. Well, one guy just finished building a 2.1liter 16v motor,
>balanced, 278 Kent cams,  and he put it in a stripped out Rabbit... totally
>bad ass 13.67second 1/4 car...  Oh, also running 60hp of NOS... well, he
>takes a guy for a ride. He pulls out of the parking lot and floors it up to
>the stoplight, just out of sight from the rest of us. Then the car dies, so
>he starts it back up... with the NOS on!!!!! This triggers one of the
>loudest explosions I have ever heard. I grab the fire extinguisher out of
>my car fearing the worst...
>As we all sprint to the car, there is shit all over the ground... we
>quickly pushed it to a side street and pulled the hood off. Actually, the
>front had hoodpins and thats all that kept the hood on. Upon removing the
>hood we saw that three injectors had been blown out of the intake, the
>intake book was toast, a chunk of the throttle body was missing in action,
>the airbox was in pieces, the grill broke, the hood had a huge crease in 
>it...
>So like all these people are gathered around the car trying to find out
>what caused the huge explosion... and I guess there was a huge fireball
>shooting out of the exhaust... Well we pushed the car back to the parking
>lot where we had the meeting and the car was able to turn over...
>Pretty scary shit... I'll try and have pics soon. :D
>Tyler
>8816v
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