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Originally posted by shakran
i've been looking for those pics for awhile now. Thanks for posting them.
The whole story is that the guy is an idiot. He installed the nitrous system wrong so that the safety valve couldn't open. Then he left the bottle heater on even though everyone with 3 brain cells who has nitrous knows not to do that, and even though you shouldn't be able to do that with his system because the bottle heater had a timer on it - a timer which Mr. Brilliant disabled on purpose.
Then when the inevitable happened and his car blew up, he sued NOS, claiming it was their fault that he had installed it wrong and used it wrong and bypassed a safety feature. Needless to say, he lost.
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Beat me to it, the guy installed 2 bursts caps back to back (instead of the just needed one) at the safety release valve. These caps are designed to burst at a certain PSI, releasing the pressure and saving yourself from a situation just like this. The way the heater (which warms the bottle, raising the pressure o an optimal 1000-1100PSI) works is it's wired to a pressure tranducer that monitors pressure and cuts off voltage when a certain point is reached. Once again, error by the operator...who left the bottle valve closed while heating the bottle.