I tried to explain that to a kid at a car show about N.O.S. and he told
me i was wrong. I also tried to correct someone on the DML about
Nitrous and N.O.S. are not the same and the post got rejected.
Mark V
On Saturday, November 6, 2004, at 01:53 PM, timnagin wrote:
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> I really did laugh and roll my eyes when I saw that part, among the
> other
> huge inaccuracies in the movie. Now people are running around yelling
> they
> have NOS and not understanding that is a company name, Nitrous Oxide
> Systems, instead of the chemical di-nitrous oxide.
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> Greg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrei Cular [mailto:acular@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:57 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: Nitrous Injection
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> Nope no flames, but if a piece of shrapnel hit the gas tank it could
> have cause the car to go up in a big ball of fire. I was just trying
> to
> start a Bill/Jim style argument over your comment about the movie
> explosion. It would at least be semi-educational compared to the
> discussions that have been going on...
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>
> Andrei
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> Martin Gutkowski - DMUK Ltd wrote:
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>> Ah but that wasn't because the thing was flammable, nor did it explode
>> with a flame. You could do the same thing with a SCUBA tank (air)
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> Andrei Cular wrote:
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>>> Martin
>>>
>>> I have seen the results of n2o bottles exploding, it was not due to a
>>> flame or spark but a dumbass. This guy thought he could get more
>>> power
>>> if he increased the pressure to the injector. So he added a bottle
>>> heater that was a bit too hot, and would cause the burst disk to
>>> blow.
>>> After a couple wasted tanks he doubled or tripled the number of burst
>>> disks. Well it worked the disk didn't blow, but when the tank went
>>> to
>>> took most of the eclipse and the windows of his girlfriends mustang
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> Andrei
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