240sx vs C5 Z06. the 240sx wins!

[Demon-Xanth]

When nitrous runs lean there's a tendancy to "pop". I saw pictures of a 4.7 Dakota owner who was running a nitrous system that could not be used below 3000RPM. A friend was driving it, and let it go below 3000RPM. The composite intake shattered, and bent his hood. Look around and you'll find a picture of Pat Musi having a nitrous pop and Hot Rod magazine getting a great shot of it. iirc, it broke his windshield (cowl induction hood, pointed the blast backwards.)

I'm almost 100% sure that until the DC 4.7, the GM LS* has the injectors on the composite manifold. (the 4.7's a SOHC, and there's a stack of metal tube on the head leading in). In the 'vettes case the nitrous probably popped, shattered the intake, and the injectors proceeded to squirt fuel onto everything, including the very hot exhaust. That's what started the fire.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: Baked
Bwahahahahaha, PWN3D. That's [yell]AWESOME![/yell]

Originally posted by: geno
that guy on the video is a cock, how can you yell awesome when someone's $50K car just got ruined?

Would you have cried?

Moreso than I would if that 240SX blew up

still his fault for using nitrass. 🙂

<--- Anti-Nitrous as well 🙂

 

[FrustratedUser]

Woah! Bummer dude.

 

[Jeff7181]

The guy with the camera needs to be kicked in the teeth.

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
While it was cool seeing the vette blow up like that...those guys on the video sounded like they were 10 years old...they are why ricers get such a bad name.

What a retarded assumption? What information leads you to beleive they're "ricers" as you put it? How do you designate a "ricer"? Any Japanese car owner, or just the ones who put wooden planks as they're wing? How do you even know they are car owners? They could be like 14-15 and not have a car yet.

Its people like you who give ATOT'ers a bad name. A typical presumptuous, and ignorant post.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: AMDZen
LoL that is hilarious. Come on, anyone can see the irony here. Guy spends 50k on car, +extra on mods, at least the NOS. Then he blows the motor when racing a car he probably thought he'd win against hands down. Anyone who knows racing, also knows that reliability is as important as anything else.

ferrari can attest to that!

michael schumachers car hadnt broken down since 2001.....until bahrain 2005 the other week , now thats a reliability record.

3 litre V10, with massive compression ratios, pushing 800+bhp, and with no fan cooled radiators and the tranny having to cope with all that power and not one failure!

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: maziwanka
that makes me so sad. that car's completely gone now...

what can the owner do now? does he get anything from his insurance company?

Let's see:

1) On a dragstrip
2) On the bottle

Hell no the insurance company and Chevy will laugh at him.

Viper GTS

Depends on your insurance. My car was wrecked at the track and insurance picked it up.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
ferrari can attest to that!

michael schumachers car hadnt broken down since 2001.....until bahrain 2005 the other week , now thats a reliability record.

3 litre V10, with massive compression ratios, pushing 800+bhp, and with no fan cooled radiators and the tranny having to cope with all that power and not one failure!

Torque kills transmissions, not power. That 800HP only puts out 250LB/ft. The RPM however, requires good bearings to be used. My dad's truck could easily kill an F1 transmission. (spectacularly) However, and F1 engine could kill his transmission. (in an ugly way). As far as fans on the radiators, they never spend much time at low speeds, and have reletively large openings. At 150MPH who needs fans?

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
ferrari can attest to that!

michael schumachers car hadnt broken down since 2001.....until bahrain 2005 the other week , now thats a reliability record.

3 litre V10, with massive compression ratios, pushing 800+bhp, and with no fan cooled radiators and the tranny having to cope with all that power and not one failure!

Torque kills transmissions, not power. That 800HP only puts out 250LB/ft. The RPM however, requires good bearings to be used. My dad's truck could easily kill an F1 transmission. (spectacularly) However, and F1 engine could kill his transmission. (in an ugly way). As far as fans on the radiators, they never spend much time at low speeds, and have reletively large openings. At 150MPH who needs fans?

At 0mph they need dry ice. 😀

 

[jreed012]

The idiots video taping are nothing but a bunch of losers.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: geno
that guy on the video is a cock, how can you yell awesome when someone's $50K car just got ruined?

Because it was awesome?

 

[essasin]

This should not scare people away from nitrous because a properly tuned, prepped, with moderate shot of nitrous is fun and safe. I ran nitrous on my mustang for 2 years without any major problems.

 

[Tremulant]

That was pretty funny. Yeah, a Z06 got blown up and it's a sad loss, but it's still pretty funny.

 

[imported_Pablo]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
While it was cool seeing the vette blow up like that...those guys on the video sounded like they were 10 years old...they are why ricers get such a bad name.

What a retarded assumption? What information leads you to beleive they're "ricers" as you put it? How do you designate a "ricer"? Any Japanese car owner, or just the ones who put wooden planks as they're wing? How do you even know they are car owners? They could be like 14-15 and not have a car yet.

Its people like you who give ATOT'ers a bad name. A typical presumptuous, and ignorant post.

In PricklyPete's defense, The cameraman's language and attitude is pretty typical of the younger ricers that I've come in contact with. It's also easy to yell "awesome" when your the one on the sidelines.

I kinda felt bad for that guys car, but if you're taking to the drag strip and ragging it out like that, you're taking that chance.

Good video!

 

[cjgallen]

That sucks hard. I feel really bad for the guy.

 

[91TTZ]

Did anyone else notice just how long it took that inept track crew to put out the fire? Someone's car is burning to the ground and they're jut standing there with fire extinguishers in their hands doing nothing.

 

[bigredguy]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Did anyone else notice just how long it took that inept track crew to put out the fire? Someone's car is burning to the ground and they're jut standing there with fire extinguishers in their hands doing nothing.

And the second guy with the extinguisher fogged the first guy. Kinda cool video, but the camera missed the actual explosion.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
As far as fans on the radiators, they never spend much time at low speeds, and have reletively large openings. At 150MPH who needs fans?

Actually, anything over only 20 mph makes the fan become an impediment to flow. A number of guys with street-able SCCA cars run without fans or shrouds on their radiators and the cars are fine on the street as long as they don't sit idling too long.

ZV

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Gillbot

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: maziwanka
that makes me so sad. that car's completely gone now...

what can the owner do now? does he get anything from his insurance company?

Let's see:

1) On a dragstrip
2) On the bottle

Hell no the insurance company and Chevy will laugh at him.

Viper GTS

Depends on your insurance. My car was wrecked at the track and insurance picked it up.

How the hell did you pull that off!? :Q

 

[MasterAndCommander]

RIP Z06

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: Gillbot

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: maziwanka
that makes me so sad. that car's completely gone now...

what can the owner do now? does he get anything from his insurance company?

Let's see:

1) On a dragstrip
2) On the bottle

Hell no the insurance company and Chevy will laugh at him.

Viper GTS

Depends on your insurance. My car was wrecked at the track and insurance picked it up.

How the hell did you pull that off!? :Q

wouldnt you get paid by your insurance company if you drove your car off the road and totalled it (regardless of whether you did it purposely or not)?

 

[BW86]

Man, that sucks :Q

 

[QuitBanningMe]

😀 Awesome!

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: maziwanka

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: Gillbot

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: maziwanka
that makes me so sad. that car's completely gone now...

what can the owner do now? does he get anything from his insurance company?

Let's see:

1) On a dragstrip
2) On the bottle

Hell no the insurance company and Chevy will laugh at him.

Viper GTS

Depends on your insurance. My car was wrecked at the track and insurance picked it up.

How the hell did you pull that off!? :Q

wouldnt you get paid by your insurance company if you drove your car off the road and totalled it (regardless of whether you did it purposely or not)?

yeah but a road and a race track are different things... some insurance companies have a clause in there somewhere that some insurance companies won't cover your car if it happened on a race track, especially for motorcycle riders since a lot of them take their bikes to track days.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
😀 Awesome!

hahaha jackass