Don't tell anybody, but gasoline can be dangerous, too. ;^)
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:25:35 -0800 "yllwdkta" <yllwdkta@insight.rr.com>
writes:
> WOW I knew that they could be dangerous but not that bad. for
> another
> example does anyone have the engine that was destroyed with
> nitrous?
>
> I would love to have nitrous but just a little leery of it. I don't
> have
> that kind of money to fix something if it were to go south. Good
> luck to
> all using nitrous
>
> Tim Althoff
> http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/yllw/dkta.html
> 99 Solar Yellow RC V-6 Manual
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of bernd@texas.net
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:39 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Note on NOS safety!!!..... (long)
>
>
>
> I personally agree as well...this person should NOT have been
> allowed to
> race
> on the track without the bottle being secured with the appropriate
> safety
> measures.
>
> - Bernd
>
> > I know that most dml'ers and dak owners in general are pretty
> smart...(they
> > own daks don't they :) )
> > I saw something that bothered me this weekend. I went to a
> local track
> > for a standard day of racing. The track was reserved for an all
> pontiac
> day,
> > but had been opened to general racing, and I didnt know before
> leaving the
> > house. (or I would have been prepared to race)
> > I went equiped with my digital camera, and ran into an old friend
> who was
> > sitting in the tech line waiting to have his super gass 55 chevy
> tehced.
> > In front of him were three RT's ( I know about all the bad
> things said
> > about rt owners, and I dont agree... these three seemed to be an
> exception)
> > one had a brand new silver rt with the only mod being one of the
> edlebrock
> > triangular air filters with the mesh screne and a foam filter.
> > annother had a yellow rt with a gen II K&N, and the third was a
> blue truck
> > running nos.
> > I didnt get to see these trucks run, but what I saw in the tech
> line
> > disturbed me...
> >
> > The blue rt was running nos, but the owner apperently didnt want
> to drill
> > holes in the bed... he had the bottle mounted to a piece of ply
> wood about
> > 18x24" and 3/4 in thick This was NOT secured to the bed, and he
> had a
> loose
> > plastic tub covering the set up.... the tech inspector questioned
> the
> setup,
> > but passed him when the driver claimed that he had been allowed to
> use the
> > same set up at "Firebird raceway"....
> > If I had been racing I would have protested this setup. This was
> one of
> the
> > most extremely unsafe things I have ever seen at a sanctioned
> race
> track!!!
> > If some of you do not know the power of these bottles look at this
> link...
> > this can easily hapen if you are not careful with presurized
> containers
> > http://www.enhancedhealth.com/nitrousexpress.htm
> >
> > sorry for ranting
> > Gregg
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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