TA+Nitrous=KABOOM!

[Spicy McHaggiz]

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[MuffHugger]

:eek2: Damn

 

[IDAFC21]

uhhhh....sweet jeebus

 

[02BlueGT]

I didn't have a blow down tube installed

Seems like it could/should have been prevented

 

[bikrboy128]

Seems like it could/should have been prevented

a blow down tube would have vented the nitrous out of the car after the pressure relief valve popped. from the looks of it the bottle didnt have a pressure relief valve(or it wasnt working right), so the bottle just blew. when you mix 2000+ PSI and a metal can with no relief things get nasty (as you can see).
sucks for that guy, hope his insurance covers it. although im not sure what this would get claimed under....

 

[Stink Star]

a properly working pressure relief valve would have prevented this

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I had my bottle in the truck all summer, pressure never got above 1200. Getting up to 3000psi (burst disc relief pressure) would take a shitload of heat and I doubt thats what happened. Probably a defect in the bottle of some sort and it ruptured.

 

[shockerracing.com]

I was thinking that maybe the bottle heater was left on or wired incorrectly. My buffy had his nitrous kit wired in by a local very reputable shop and they wired the bottle heater switch incorrectly(opposite). When he picked it up and was driving home with the heater off, he noticed that the pressure kept rising and by the time he got home it was over 1500! He finally realized that it was still heating the bottle while the switch was in the off position!!! If something like this happened without the temp sensor hooked up properly(or bypassed) the bottle pressure could get really high. Although, I do not know what the max bottle pressure is on these bottles.

 

[bluzohh6]

thats awesome so much for an immaculate interior

 

[Stink Star]

heating the bottle with a torch a few times can weaken it too, then it can fail under "normal operating conditions"

 

[Bad00SS]

so its bad to heat the bottle witha torch. fuck. i been doin that for 5 yeas now. lol

 

[02BlueGT]

a blow down tube would have vented the nitrous out of the car after the pressure relief valve popped. from the looks of it the bottle didnt have a pressure relief valve(or it wasnt working right), so the bottle just blew. when you mix 2000+ PSI and a metal can with no relief things get nasty (as you can see).
sucks for that guy, hope his insurance covers it. although im not sure what this would get claimed under....

I thought It was the same, my bad...... But from the pieces look like a real carbon fiber/ non metal bottle

So, I assume the bottle cant hold to the same abuse as a steel one

Then again, the resin is probably more prone to weak spots than a steel bottle