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Asuka{eve}

MY GOD!!! It looks like a gunfight went on or something.

KirStang

Boom.

He one simple error, with such devastating results.

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todd

He's lucky the bottle didn't go the other way. He'd have a hole straight through his house.

merkerguitars

Holy shit, it will be interesting to see who is at fault of the problem, I know for sure that NX does make some of the most reliable kits around....but you never know.

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rockogre

Damn good thing he wasn't in the garage at the time. Too much go all at once always seems to be a bad thing.

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RaDiAn

Man that is just crazy.....

castex

Best possible result for that car

Stare At The Sun

/domestic e-thug.


Still sucks that happened, and yeah, probably was quite loud.

choskins

I saw a 1976 Corvette, with a ZZ4 crate motor and nitrous, blow its hood literally 300 ft. in the air during a 1/8 mile run. It was awesome!

I had nitrous on a 1991 Vette several years ago, but didn't replace the stock head gaskets. I learned the hard way why Chevy motors leak oil. The head gaskets suck. After developing a leak, water got in the cylinder. Mix that with nitrous, and Bye Bye pistons!

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castex

Sorry, I don't get it. Did you mean to insult me?

Gloves

Nitrous is good>Boost is Better yet!

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BigTruck1956

jeeeeezus....

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Jackebear

That was my thought exactly when I saw the pics. Lucky no one was in the garage or car. Wow.

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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.

irseg

I think the guy did it on purpose. Pretty convenient how he installed it in a way that bypassed all the safety devices, then the pressure relief valve just happened to malfunction. And he doesn't seem to be very cooperative with any investigators who want to look at the evidence and see what went wrong.

Then he was left with damage most likely covered by his car and homeowner's insurance (of course nobody was near the car at the time it exploded), plus he had a good shot at winning a lawsuit against NX, as well as getting some free publicity for himself and his bullshit "enhancedhealth.com" site where the photos are conveniently hosted.

At the very best the guy is a complete moron, most likely he's an opporunistic lying piece of shit.

SpikeQX99

Yeah, purposefully bypassing the safety features and then trying to sue after the "big bang"...

What a moron....

NX makes (in my limited opinion) a very high quality and reputable product. He's just being difficult and trying to cash in on the easy money...

What an asshole.

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Zoom

Bottles are for babies, real men get blown (outside of Prostock and up)

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Scorps

why not get both

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sabotage

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.

primal

I saw these pictures a few years ago on a Maxima forum. It had to be about 3 years ago.

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Cynthetiq

blech. this is why it's scary to have to live NEXT to someone else.

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Cynthetiq

a mile away is pretty far.. in NYC I'm surrounded by people 24/7. It just takes one moron to turn on the stove and not light the stove... and then boom.