Now, this is what i keep saying! Ie never heard of an S/C or turbo causing
a vehicle to be completely burned to the ground.
Super good..... Nitrous baaad.....
Frank WJ
>
>Hey guys, I was down at my local dragstrip where I usually spend my friday
>nights, and there's been a guy over there w/ a club cab R/T for the last
>few
>weeks running and I hadn't talked to him, But last friday, he was running a
>200 shot of NOS and after running 8.91,8.95,&8.99, he made his 4th and
>final
>pass.He tripped the lights at 8.99 again, but as soon as he hit the finish
>line, the truck went boom! He said the hood started to buckle when the
>cylinder haeds hit the bottomside and at that point the engine compartment
>caught on fire.I couldn't see the truck at this point as he had managed to
>pull off the track, but in a minute, here he comes, walking up the return
>road, picking peices of his intake manifold out of his arm.The truck burned
>to the back of the cab and was extinguished.Come to find out, the boy
>hadn't
>had the truck long, it was a brand new 2000 w/aproxxamately 3000 miles on
>it.Don't put NOS on your truck!!!! My freind's 98 318 5-spd truck was
>running a 75 shot and it cut a hole in the valve the size of a nickel and
>scorched a piston,but his was fixed under warranty!
>
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