N2O is inert. Can't figure how this would happen, other then maybe a fire directly under a pressurised bottle.
did you see the pics on the other page. The NOS looks mad old, quote from t he old timer. "Below are a couple of shots of a NOS jug of turbo rocket fluid. It has never been opened but the level has gone down about one inch over all these years". anyone here got a Nitrous setup? or has installed it themselves. PM me.
I agree must've been a fire under pressured bottle to do that. Either that or some one was playing with something otherthan NOS. Hmm still thinking back to the child hood days of pipe and sparkler bombs. Was fun back then but there was definately potential for disaster on numerous occasional. All I can say is ha, ha.
egg this is an old on but points to note. there is no flash shadow. That bottle failed it didnt ignite. second the garage door was down so here is the sequence. Welds failed on the bottle. thi prssuresied the boot in .05 of a second . the boot hinge and latch would have failed in at o.2 of a second. the pressure rebouned off the garage door at about 0.5 of a second. the blow back stripped the guards off the car and blew in the rear window at about 0.55 of a second. shadow
Still sceptical. I reckon if the bottle failed you'd hardly know... less there was a fire underneath it to cause it to explode. Sure this isn't a LPG install that was leaking and say a pilot light ignited it? Regardless, Peace
by god and begorrah ...!!!! maybe the research towards developing h2o as a fuel is not a bad idea after all!!! black baz ... may my beast never explode !!!
Correct This is indeed fairly old. Do a google on nitrous express systems and you will hit this eventually as that was the system and is actually the nitrous brand Im using now. From memory they connected the bottle warmer to a constant power source in the car, so it was on with the ignition off. Then when they installed it the same genious removed the safety pressure valve. So no pressure release and constant heat = exploded bottle. When they go they go fairly well as you can see by the pics. If you dont get a monkey to do the install then fairly hard to reproduce.
if it was lpg A it wouldn't have exploded,but where the filler valve was would have had a 25 ft flame come out for over 10 minutes. B if the bottle had failed there would not have a house left standing!!!!!!!
Still had to be some sort of heat source. Nitrous bottles don't just explode like that. But anyway, what a fool... expensive lesson.
