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hotwheels
08-28-2005, 06:52 PM
I tried to attatch a picture, but i think the actual picture may be to big. If you get a chance scott, can you go to this link and bring the picture over here. I would like to see people's thought's on what would have caused this fire. Nitrous or a Gasoline leak in the fuel line.

http://www.insanemustangs.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1256

This is my buddies car, he fired it up for the first time last nite and took it out on a nitrous run. On the way back to the shop, driving normaly...he heard a pop, saw smoke, then fire......it literally burned the car to the ground...nothing is salvagable.......(and no, i am not the mechanic on this car).....but just like to see what other's think that have been around power added car's.....

Thanks, hotwheels

yea i just tried it again......File Too Large. Limit for this filetype is 137.7 KB. Your file is 334.4 KB.


I am at work right now so i can't resize the image......thanks
XcYZ
08-28-2005, 07:18 PM
Wow, toast...

http://www.lateral-g.net/temp/DSC00012.JPG
hotwheels
08-28-2005, 07:39 PM
yea, it's terrible.....the entire car look's like that......the nitrous bottle was placed between the driver's and passenger seat's.......when the bottle exploded, it actually blew holes in the floor pan's.......

so what does everyone think, nitrous or gasoline leak?

Looks like a nitrous fire to me, but i am just curious on what other's think too.....

oh, and thanks scott....much appreciated
jonny51
08-28-2005, 07:57 PM
Damn!!Atleast nobody was hurt cars are replaceable.
Musclerodz
08-28-2005, 09:18 PM
That was definitely a hot fire. The way the manifold in blown out it appears to have started because of a NOS leak, then caught on fire. I think I would be sick to my stomach for the next 6 months. I hope he has good insurance.

Mike
hotwheels
08-28-2005, 10:52 PM
poor kid didn't have full coverage....only liability insurance.....he is totally out....i can't post anymore pic's right now cause of upload size limit's, but the car look's worse then the engine.........it used to be a convertible......

I have told the guy that i am going to donate some car part's that i have, hopefully that will keep his spirit's up......between myself and some other friends here locally, we may just have enough part's to get him another project going....won't be as nice as the one that he lost last nite, but it should be an awesome start....
907rs
08-29-2005, 12:17 AM
Yeah, I agree with Mike. It looks like a stuck nitrous solenoid could've caused the initial "pop" your buddy heard, then it caught fire with fuel feeding it.
race-rodz
08-29-2005, 01:26 AM
im curious why the safety disk didnt pop before the bottle got enough pressure to explode.... btw NO2 isnt flammable..... impress your friends by building a fire on the floor in the shop... and crack a bottle open on it..... it will blow the burning sh...stuff all over the shop...but wont intensify it.
race-rodz
08-29-2005, 01:34 AM
btw... i think it will just buff right out :unibrow:
ProdigyCustoms
08-29-2005, 03:08 AM
Sounds like the electric fuel pump feed the fire
Smack_talker
08-29-2005, 06:55 AM
Wow...that is bad..good to hear eveyone was allright. I dont know if I would put a NOS bottle loose in the back seat of my car though.
jannes_z-28
08-29-2005, 07:40 AM
That was a terrible nightmare.

Don't want to be patronizing but this show us all that a master switch for the batterycable and a fire extinguisher is necessary to have in our cars.



Jan
69MyWay
08-29-2005, 09:20 AM
Check out this NOS explosion:

Warning, there is some bad language in the second vid of the Z06 going up in flames on a NOS backfire.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=D5953D3C-0E4E-4017-B8E0-4154BBCD3BEF&term=nitrous%20explosion&p=0

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=2A7D6B15-D0F9-4976-ADAD-B97C2A7EDE80&term=backfire&p=0
hotwheels
08-29-2005, 07:20 PM
That was a terrible nightmare. I totally agree......i have been pretty bad myself about not keeping my extinguisher in my car too....i will keep it at all time's now....very good lesson for everyone if you study the picture....this could happen to anyone at anytime........


hotwheels
evilzee28
08-30-2005, 03:25 AM
Check out this NOS explosion:

Warning, there is some bad language in the second vid of the Z06 going up in flames on a NOS backfire.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=D5953D3C-0E4E-4017-B8E0-4154BBCD3BEF&term=nitrous%20explosion&p=0

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=2A7D6B15-D0F9-4976-ADAD-B97C2A7EDE80&term=backfire&p=0

it did say TNT on the airbox in the first video !!!!!