You know, it's funny how everybody is so quick to
bolt on a nitrous bottle. Probably half the 5.0s
at the traffic light have them. But me, I really
want to "tip the can" some day. I have no real
desire to put a bottle on the car, but I do hope
I can hear it fire off on "nitro" some day. I've
got all my eggs in that little Dodge basket. 241
cubic inches, 8:1 compression ratio, zoomie
pipes, lil'blower and nitro! I figure that ought
to be more of a thrill than a gentleman of my
years should be entitled to. tsk tsk tsk
Dick J
--- Steve Pitt <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>
wrote:
> As I understand, nitromethane is pretty tame as
> a free liquid but gets real
> cranky when compressed. I've heard about some
> really wicked explosions when
> motors are turned over to start with
> accumulated nitro in a cylinder. I
> witnessed such an event a few years ago with an
> A/Fuel dragster at Seattle
> International Raceway. Big bang, holed piston,
> bent rod, cracked block.
> Not very nice stuff under the right/wrong
> conditions!
> Steve Pitt
> > -----Original
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