That huge nitrous explosion pro mod shakedown

tire fryer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:34 am

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Prom ... 718181.htm

Just stopped the tape when it blew........Never in all 22 yrs of tapping seen one like this unless you were there you have no idea how voilent it was hopeffully out of 30 photographers each day some one caught it!

Paulie9fingers · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:58 am

That's my buddy Jeff's car :frown5:

, I was at MIR and he called me and said "I blew it up" :eek:

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iceman · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:58 pm

That was quite the concussion, I didn't hear if anyone got it. Normally we aren't aimed at the cars between burnouts and staging so the chances are low :mad2:

Paulie9fingers · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:01 pm

There's a thread on YB with video, but he only kinda catches it,w when blew it startles the sh!t outta him (like it should) and the camera goes away from the car for a second.

wookie · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:20 pm

i was over at food stand, thought girl at stand was gonna shit, it was that loud

small block notch · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:27 pm

yeah, that was crazy.

sounded like a gun shot for sure

iceman · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:03 pm

Here's some more angles -- these guys were in the stands rolling the whole time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SETXGkFib4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kht95C3 ... re=channel

BLOCKHEAD75 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:22 pm

A pic

noricehere · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:32 pm

The second vid is pretty tell tale of how fast that happened and how hard it was. You can hear the engine is already full, not even shutting off the power would have stopped it before it blew. Hope all were OK.

Paulie9fingers · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:38 am

. . . the second video is great. He double checked it last night and one of the nitrous soleniods on the second system stuck open. He shut all the nitrous electric off before he tried to refire the engine but it didn't matter because the soleniod was already open. Just an FYI, niether Jeff or any of the crew could see the nitrous coming outta the scoop because of the angles they were at and all of it happened pretty quick considering he needed to get into the beams asap.

noricehere · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:37 am

Paulie9fingers wrote:

. . . the second video is great. He double checked it last night and one of the nitrous soleniods on the second sytstem stuck open. He shut all the nitrous electric off before he tried to refire the engine but it didn't matter because the soleniod was already open. Just an FYI, niether Jeff or any of the crew could see the nitrous coming outta the scoop because of the angles they were at and all of it happened pretty quick considering he needed to get into the beams asap.

You don't have to tell me that Paulie, Nick Montana and Leo Barnaby had gone over this before with me when that motor zings like that, as soon as the smoke clears from the the engine it will grab all the air and "Bam", he had no chance to stop that once it got enough air in it, best wishes to them getting it fixed up. I was fixated on that area for the longet time andusually I flinch and shoot but that was a split second. Not a great rememberance but something they could keep if any of us could catch it.

Paulie9fingers · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:55 am

The intake is already off and getting fixed, it didn't hurt the runners or top plate because he had the peddle to the floor while cranking it to try and clear the nitrous before he fired it back up, that probably saved alot of damage to the carbs and engine. The throttle blades appear to be bowed just a little so they're going out to get checked anyhow and the engine is coming out tonight just to smoke it over real quick but everything seems to be fine there.

noricehere · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:00 am

Paulie9fingers wrote:

The intake is already off and getting fixed, it didn't hurt the runners or top plate because he had the peddle to the floor while cranking it to try and clear the nitrous before he fired it back up, that probably saved alot of damage to the carbs and engine. The throttle blades appear to be bowed just a little so they're going out to get checked anyhow and the engine is coming out tonight just to smoke it over real quick but everything seems to be fine there.

This happened to Mark Bowen wayyy back in the day, same situaton Paulie, Ibet the motor is OK too, it just stays up top, you can see the moke clear when he cranks it. Marks blew off just as they started to lift the hood and it really took off, they went back and it started and ran fine.

Paulie9fingers · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:03 am

Eddie Burnley had the worst one I ever saw down at MIR. It completely tore the front end off his car, it hurt the frame and even unbeeded the front tire on the car in the other lane :eek:

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noricehere · **Posted:** Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:52 am

Paulie9fingers wrote:

Eddie Burnley had the worst one I ever saw down at MIR. It completely tore the front end off his car, it hurt the frame and even unbeeded the front tire on the car in the other lane :eek:

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I remember that one, I think Chris Simmons shot it also, these days the cars are tuned and monitored so well it's rare to see it anymore.

iceman · **Posted:** Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:35 am

Check out how high the pieces went!

noricehere · **Posted:** Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:37 am

Wow, nice grab Seth, looks like some fans may have gotten a couple of souveniers in the stands out of that one.

Paulie9fingers · **Posted:** Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:57 pm

Great pic Seth, I'll show it to Jeff

tire fryer · **Posted:** Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:43 pm

That's an AWESOME shot!!

cmracing · **Posted:** Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:07 pm

I was at the 1000ft with my wife at the fench and felt it from there!

Until I saw that second video on the Yellow Bullet I had no idea why it happened.

If they saw the fog rolling out of the front of the scoop they would never had tried to re-start it.

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