Dangers of Blowing Your Motor
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so you guys are being serious -
I'm not really that concerned about it, I was just wondering what the odds were -
I always hear about motors blowing but I never hear about anyone getting injured/killed by exploding chunks of motor
I'm not really that concerned about it, I was just wondering what the odds were -
I always hear about motors blowing but I never hear about anyone getting injured/killed by exploding chunks of motor
Build the motor and get a scatter shield if it really concerns you. Or just dont beat on your car.
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One day a bunch of us were pondering these kinds of situations over, and how one protects oneself from bad things happening. My mother who is very paranoid of identity theft, and never uses her credit card in a foreign country or on the internet, had her credit card # stollen at a local well-known department store. These people went out and bought everything their hearts desired with that card.
Another time I stalled in going to an amusement park where my sister and I had planned to get on the rollercoaster and ride it all day (just flashing our armbands to stay on the ride). Because I stalled, we were not on the ride when the rollarcoaster went off the track and three people were killed, and one is now a quadriplegic.
When I was younger I smoked cigarettes. I was sitting at a light and another guy pulled up beside me on that dark night, and he started to light up a cigarette. That triggered me to light one too. Both of us were sitting lighting our cigs when the light turned green for us to proceed...because we were not ready to enter the intersection there was about a 10 second delay...a car coming in the opposite direction going 100+ kms, flew through the intersection, and if we had not smoked, we would have been in the intersection and been killed. The two of us just looked over at each other and we knew that smoking had actually saved our lives!
You really have to have a bit of luck in this world, but doing fool-hardy things will increase your risk for sure. Drive your car and enjoy it...one never knows when your # is up!
Another time I stalled in going to an amusement park where my sister and I had planned to get on the rollercoaster and ride it all day (just flashing our armbands to stay on the ride). Because I stalled, we were not on the ride when the rollarcoaster went off the track and three people were killed, and one is now a quadriplegic.
When I was younger I smoked cigarettes. I was sitting at a light and another guy pulled up beside me on that dark night, and he started to light up a cigarette. That triggered me to light one too. Both of us were sitting lighting our cigs when the light turned green for us to proceed...because we were not ready to enter the intersection there was about a 10 second delay...a car coming in the opposite direction going 100+ kms, flew through the intersection, and if we had not smoked, we would have been in the intersection and been killed. The two of us just looked over at each other and we knew that smoking had actually saved our lives!
You really have to have a bit of luck in this world, but doing fool-hardy things will increase your risk for sure. Drive your car and enjoy it...one never knows when your # is up!
i had no issues blowing my motor lol, My car blew Rod 3 out the front and back of the block.. all it did was chew up the Tcase housing a bit and put small whole in my condensor since a have a small radiator.. I had no debree come close to the firewall.
Personaly i dont see a danger in blowing the motor, but i def see a danger when clutchs explode
My block
Personaly i dont see a danger in blowing the motor, but i def see a danger when clutchs explode
My block
When I first go my Evo, I cranked the boost up to 40psi and added a 3 stage 150 shot of NOS. The car was set up for 10's and it had stage 7 mods. Real nice JDM neon kit too that was set to flicker to music. Anyway, I was in the middle of a street race across the Golden Gate Bridge and I flipped the switch for the 3rd stage of NOS, and the engine blew sending shards of downpipe fluid all over the road. The neon tubes all blew and I actually got poisoning from neon gas inhalation. So the moral of the story is that unless you are running JDM neon tubes, you should be pretty safe in the event of a catastrophic engine failure.
When I first go my Evo, I cranked the boost up to 40psi and added a 3 stage 150 shot of NOS. The car was set up for 10's and it had stage 7 mods. Real nice JDM neon kit too that was set to flicker to music. Anyway, I was in the middle of a street race across the Golden Gate Bridge and I flipped the switch for the 3rd stage of NOS, and the engine blew sending shards of downpipe fluid all over the road. The neon tubes all blew and I actually got poisoning from neon gas inhalation. So the moral of the story is that unless you are running JDM neon tubes, you should be pretty safe in the event of a catastrophic engine failure.
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However, motorcycles are a totally different story :-)
I know at least one guy tbat went through a 'thigh piercing' and I have heard few other horror stories. It's no surprise when your bum is actually on top of those hard working engines and legs almost wrapped around them.
I know at least one guy tbat went through a 'thigh piercing' and I have heard few other horror stories. It's no surprise when your bum is actually on top of those hard working engines and legs almost wrapped around them.
