Friends NOS bottle xplodes in his WS6

[turbo nasty]

Totaled his car, he was not in it, the tranny was fried he was waiting to do the 4l80 conversion.

Blew all the windows/t tops out, the whole dash out onto the hood, all the taillights out, bulgded the 1/4's, the WS6 emblem.....well part of it was found 120 yards from the car, the top of the hose is covered in glass, pictures fell off the walls in the house.
I'll try and gets some pics...the bottle was alum and had been in a car fire before and that they think is the reason why. I think they were crazy for using it after a fire but that them. Bet they wont again.
Girl that was home thought a bomb went off and hit the floor crawled over to the window, she heard the alrm go off about a hour before that and ignored it after checking outside I bet thats when it started to fail.
Man hes lucky he was not driving the sucker. It was one of our warmest days and the interior temp was enough.
Hes goingto pull the motor and put it in his 4x4 s10:biggrin:

 

[boostingbuick]

Damn! I want some pics. It's almost to crazy to believe.

 

[87natl]

Sweet Jesus, that's SCARY!!!!!!!!

 

[turbo nasty]

Can you imagine if he and or his girlfriend was in the car when it happened.. Close casket for sure

 

[GregInAtl]

Where was the dump tube? I have had buddies have the bladder bust at the head, which is the design of how they should fail, should it happen. It fills the car w/ what appears to be white smoke...funny when you come out to leave and it just happened.
Post some pics...also what an insurance night mare that sounds like.

 

[bobc455]

Just a reminder to everyone that your nitrous bottle has to either be replaced or re-certified every so often (I forget whether it is 5 or 10 years).

-Bob C.

 

[klrv6]

Maybe it was like this really smart person did.

Nitrous Bottle Explosion

I have never heard of them just exploding on their own, something may have caused it to rupture.

Bypassing every safety device and then cry when something goes wrong...right.


I would like to see pics though.

 

[psycho6cyl]

I think people forget just how explosive flamable etc NOS can be. It like when i watch the street racin vids and the guys heat up the bottle w the b-tanks.... i just stare in disbelief..

 

[klrv6]

I think people forget just how explosive flamable etc NOS can be. It like when i watch the street racin vids and the guys heat up the bottle w the b-tanks.... i just stare in disbelief..

NOS does not burn...Non flammable!!!! It only enhances the combustion process.

 

[jpratt]

Isn't it just a LOT of compressed air that is released at once. What are they like 12,ooo PSI?

 

[noslo6]

NOS does not burn...Non flammable!!!! It only enhances the combustion process.

I agree. So how did the entire car explode?

 

[Ross L]

normally they operate at about 1000 psi. But, when heated the pressure can skyrocket. Now take a bottle thats been through a fire heat it up (pressure can easily exceed 2000psi) faulty blow off valve(been through a fire) and bad things might happen.

 

[SloGN]

Just a reminder to everyone that your nitrous bottle has to either be replaced or re-certified every so often (I forget whether it is 5 or 10 years).

-Bob C.

I know that our SCBA (self contained breathing appartuas). those bottles have to be hydro-tested every so many yrs due to this. I do know that the alum-carbon fiber wrapped bottles have a serive life of 15yrs. The steel bottles can remain in service as long as the hydro-test plasses it. I think the NOS bottles need to have this same thing done to them. I really wonder if they even have a dot standard placed on them?



We had a car fire about a yr ago when the first truck go on the scene it was a mid to mat 90's suburban with roof hinged on one side all the way from front to rear of the truck. The rear floor board was blown out and on the ground. Well after talking to some of thge bystanders that kept saying something about hearing a explosion. Well come to find out there was a explosion due to that there were 3 small portable oxygen cylinders in the back seat of the truck. The explosion ratlled homes in about a 1 mile radius around the scene. I know that the small o2 tanks are pressurized to 1000-1200 psi.

I can't imagine having a 12k bottle rupture in a closed enviroment like a car in the garage or even the inside of a car interior.

Pat broughton

 

[Pablo]

The Burst disk on my nitrous bottle is rated at 3000 psi, meaning, it wont rupture and dump the pressure till it reaches 3000 psi.

Clearly, the bottles can withstand up to that much pressure. In this case, it sounds to me that the heat of the previous fire heat treated the bottle to the point where it became very brittle and instead of being able to withstand 3000 psi, it exploded well before then.

and yes to reiterate what another guy said, nitrous is not flammable

 

[GNVYUS 1]

That doesn't even seem possible ( those pics ). That looked like something only Hollywood could do.

 

["Turbo-T"]

I think people forget just how explosive flamable etc NOS can be.

Did you just watch the first The Fast And The Furious again? Where his green Eclipse catches fire and then they scream "NAAAAWWWSSS!" just before the nitrous bottle explodes?

This thread really is useless without pics.

 

[turbo nasty]

Try to get some pics this weekend.