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Vehicle catches fire following a failed NOS boost😬
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That 4.6 was on its last leg. Depends on how much he sprayed but those rings said goodbye.
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He kept the bottle open during a shift. That’s gonna go boom on any car! Run your juice on a RPM window switch
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Might be a noob question but why?
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Because in gear the engine is under load and the RPM’s cant race away that easily. All that power is being used to move the tires and push the car. In neutral, while shifting, the engine isn’t underload and can redline instantly. The connecting rods won’t be able to handle it, they’ll snap, you’ll throw a rod, engine done.
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Thank you for putting it in a way that was understandable and helpful
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Nitrous always sounded like a sick idea if I was independently wealthy and could afford to both purchase new cars and work on them lol.
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Thank you not rely on anyone to turn the valve right.
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Let a computer chip (rpm window switch) control when the juice is sprayed and when it’s shut off.
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Didnt have the audio on lol
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you can always hear a modular ford engine from a ways away they do have a distinct sound. I have two 7.5L ford vans and they sound pretty good surprisingly, one is an 83 with built internals and a flat tappet and the other is a bone stock 90 with a roller cam and they even have two distinct exhaust notes. The modulars are all based on one design for sure.
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Same block and almost identical heads with a different cam and intake.
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Aren’t the 4.6s, 5.4s, and 6.8s all the same architecture which makes sense that it’d sound like a truck motor?
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> On re-watch, that was the bottom end coming apart. Just like me if you feed me cheese.
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This is fuckin funny! Thank you kind person for making me chuckle today…. Take this imaginary hunk of gold; trade it for the best Cannabis you can by and enjoy the ride!
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That 100 shot of NOS definitely blew the welds on the intake. Now he’a gotta rip apart the block, and replace the piston rings he fried.
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Now me and the mad scientist got to rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried
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You owe me a 10 second car!
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Dude I almost had you!
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Almost had me? You never had your car!
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Ask any real racer. It doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.
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Is there an echo in here
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^(…in here)
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He thought he had me?
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I remember watching the film back in the day being absolutely blown away by how fucking clueless the writers were.
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There’s a video of an actual mechanic who was advising the production explaining what he told them and how his ideas were sometimes used and sometimes disregarded. He had a great idea for this race in particular where an overpressure valve causes the windshield to freeze.
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thats not just ‘an actual mechanic’, hes _the guy_ who was responsible for like …every F&F car, [Craig Lieberman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQnYJa4U-nQ)
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Craig is the goat!
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They knew what they were showing was wrong. Most of the time in movies they know it’s wrong. They consciously make the choice to be wrong because it adds something to the story. Could be they want something more exciting. Or maybe they may want to speed things up to cut seconds from the film. And sometimes it’s just easier to wave the movie magic wand than to show how things are actually done.
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Considering we’re seeing the passenger’s point of view, they’re lucky they didn’t fall through the floorpan hole.
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I’m actually quite shocked that the in dash entertainment infocenter didn’t give a warning for the first half mile.
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Gotta recalibrate the Johnson rod too
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I’m not a mechanic but that sounds perverted
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Only an honest mechanic will do.
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I would have expected that in most cases when the car bursts into flame like that it’s probably totaled.
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It’s suboptimal
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Nah, considering that gehetto ass NOS set up and manual way he had the release, with no safeguards against this shit? Nah, it’s either; 1) A beater car they’re just gonna sell for parts 2) He’s gonna try to claim insurance on it No way he’s gonna be rebuilding it himself. They found out how easy it was to snorkel on some NOS into the engine to get those instant HP gains, and had zero plan to properly use it. NOS is the absolute worst choice for a power adder unless you’re doing short, serious bursts. You need to buy a proper system, and tune your shit to handle it. Literally anything else is a better choice, sans the price point. It is the cheapest power adder short of a straight tune for the engine, but if you do it stupid, it instantly blows up an engine beyond reasonable repair.
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Nothing quite like running no regulator and blasting 1000 psi straight into the engine
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Friend of mind toasted a couple of engines “tweaking” the turbo pressure on stock parts. He also wasted 2-3 gearboxes, it would have been cheaper getting good aftermarket parts. We made bets at work if he’d show up in his parents car after a race weekend.
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Right? fucking morons.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-bN-RkJLM&t=51s
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It’s a The Fast and The Furious quote
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granny shifting, not double-clutching like he should
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Dude I almost had you!
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Almost had *me*?
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You never had me. You never had your car!
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Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block
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And replace the piston rings you fried
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Ask any racer, any real racer. It doesn’t matter whether you win by an inch or mile.
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