Well i just got home from an expeirence i will never forget and one that i will wish never happened but that's life right. I was just driving down the street and i was sitting at a stop light when my rpm starting rising while my foot was still on the clutch they stopped at about 3000 and stayed there for a couple seconds and the next thing i know the hood of my car was in my windshield the airbags were in my face and there was smoke every where. I haven't assesed total damage whick i will try to do tomorrow but i know that it was my nitrous that blew up shot my front bumper clear across the intersection blew the intake manifold of completely there is a empty hole where the intake was. So the car that i have only had for about 6 months and still owe 21,000 dollars on is sitting in a repo yard with a blown engine and totaled front in and a LOT more misery to follow in the next couple of months. So my advice to everyone is to think twice about nitrous. STUFF HAPPENS. i will keep you all updated.
Think Twice!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hahhha, like the Doge Nitro "Can you give me a jump" commercial.
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Thats what happens when you leave your bottle on overnight and have a leaky solenoid! N20 fills the manifold overnight, start the car and whammy! That's what someone whos running Nitrous told me when I mentioned this to him.
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Not even if all your bottle pressure has been sitting in the manifold over night? That was his explanation to me; he left the bottle open over night and the NOS entered the manifold throughout the night and whammy.
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Wow, so what caused his intake and front end to go boom. Only happened after he installed NOS? I'll reread everything again.
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I got my fuel line teed for nitrous yesterday. I noticed a small fuel drip leak near the tee today, getting it fixed today BEFORE I even think about spraying!
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Fuel Puddling. I am thinking about using Nitrous during the summer. What is puddling? Thanks.
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Ouch. Thanks Hocky, I'll mention that too my buddy. "hit him with some knowledge" lol.
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wow this thing still isn't over after almost 2 months they have called and told me they would fix the car then a week later they said they were not going to fix the car until another guy went and looked at it finally they called me back again and this time i recorded the conversation of them telling me they would fix everything. The are fixing everything they are not replacing the engine wich i am not worried about if you saw the damage you can tell that the the internals were not harmed luckily the manifold was stock thats the only reason it didn't screw the motor up cause the manifold was the weaker part so it exploded first i should have my car back in two weeks. But i am planning on selling it. And getting an 06 scion tc. I will miss my focus a lot though. Hopefully i am still welcome you guys have been a great help in ansering all my questions and everything so thanks.
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Yea, I'm sure something not-good went through the intake...maybe shards or small pieces of metal.
I feel for the person buying your car, lol.
I feel for the person buying your car, lol.
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Can't wait to look up the "Vehicle History Reports" :lol:
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And you get a little something like this (I am running the camera) http://www.webtrendsguy.com/video/nitroboom.wmvHocky said:
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well my insurance agent just called me. And told me there was a couple of valves bent and a couploe holes somewhere so they are replacing the motor with a new used motor only has a 1000 miles on it so that is damn good. my car has nine thousand right now so i am pretty excited to have a motor with only a thousand. They might give me a warranty on it as well. SO that is a good thing. lol i want tolook up the vehicle history report just to see what it says.
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I still don't understand how you are getting the insurance company to do this. Either they don't know jack about nitrous backfires.... or you have one kewl adjuster.
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