How In The Hell!?
09-11-2003, 10:36 PM
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http://www.msnbc.com/local/kntv/A1783721.asp
SAN FRANCISCO, 8:38 a.m. PDT September 11, 2003 - A car mechanic thinks he can identify the metal object that came crashing through the roof of a San Francisco home earlier this week.
A 'souped-up' Firebird was stolen and found abandoned near the home damaged by the object. The car is missing its flywheel - a metal part between the transmission and the engine. Auto customizer Jim Chiangi suspects the person who stole the car raced the engine so fast that it broke apart, shooting the flywheel through the hood of the car.
Chiangi told NBC11 News, "It must have sounded like an explosion when this came ripping through the hood. I guarantee that piece must have flown at least 100 feet in the air."
Police say they will look into the theory.
A 'souped-up' Firebird was stolen and found abandoned near the home damaged by the object. The car is missing its flywheel - a metal part between the transmission and the engine. Auto customizer Jim Chiangi suspects the person who stole the car raced the engine so fast that it broke apart, shooting the flywheel through the hood of the car.
Chiangi told NBC11 News, "It must have sounded like an explosion when this came ripping through the hood. I guarantee that piece must have flown at least 100 feet in the air."
Police say they will look into the theory.
09-11-2003, 10:59 PM
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I guess it is possible, you would have to be turning some revs, but a few years back volov made some turbine discs for turbine engines, when they ground the hubs on the disks, they did not do it properly, they were supposed to use a constant flush of oil to wash away the cut ships, instead they ground those chips back into the hub of the turbine wheel, at 20,000 ROM when the chips got hot, melted and boom, they would fly out of the engine and through the passenger compartment.
09-12-2003, 08:04 AM
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Bizzzaaree. I've seen the piston out of a nitro burning VW engine take off in the general direction of NY once. Probably would have made it if it wasn't for that concrete wall it hit about 300 feet away.
Yeah I think nitro in VW engines is a bad idea too.
Yeah I think nitro in VW engines is a bad idea too.
09-12-2003, 09:53 AM
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09-12-2003, 09:59 AM
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At Orlando speed world a few years back a dude with a RX-3 and NOS was working on his car in the pits. He was under the hood and was revving his engine into submission when he tripped his NOS the engine revved to very high RPM's and the flywheel came apart taking most of the dudes head with it.
09-12-2003, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Jims5543' date='Sep 12 2003, 09:59 AM
At Orlando speed world a few years back a dude with a RX-3 and NOS was working on his car in the pits. He was under the hood and was revving his engine into submission when he tripped his NOS the engine revved to very high RPM's and the flywheel came apart taking most of the dudes head with it.
09-12-2003, 10:23 AM
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I could never understand why people do that. Your cars not running right so lets see.... lets rev the **** out of it.
We call that revving into submission here. The shop next door to my mechanics did it all the time. We would just look at each other and shake our heads.
We call that revving into submission here. The shop next door to my mechanics did it all the time. We would just look at each other and shake our heads.
09-12-2003, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Jims5543' date='Sep 12 2003, 11:23 AM
I could never understand why people do that. Your cars not running right so lets see.... lets rev the **** out of it.
We call that revving into submission here. The shop next door to my mechanics did it all the time. We would just look at each other and shake our heads.
We call that revving into submission here. The shop next door to my mechanics did it all the time. We would just look at each other and shake our heads.
"Ouch, I got a compound fracture in my leg! Maybe if I go jogging, it'll be fixed!"