luckythirteen13

my buddy kelly is some what of a redneck. didnt believe in purge valves.........he does now tho. a few weeks ago he throws on a 175shot onto is 466. we get in and i ask how he plans to purge the line. he says into the motor at idle. not a good idea. does it once, np. does it twice, np. does it three times.....BOOOM, CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK!! motor dies. knowing that the motor would be coming out today last night we fired it up (with a cracked block) warmed it up, from a 10mph roll WOT on a 175shot. lasted about .5seconds before BOOM! and thats all she wrote. here is a few pics

this is what oil and coolant look like together. he drove the car around my neighborhood a few times doing burnouts and launching it trying to blow it but it kept running


gross


the worst cylinder. cracked wall and busted piston


another blown pison


this piston slit in half and spun in the cylinder


a close up of the cylinder that blew


oil and coolant dont mix

so the lesson is, if you run nitrous or plan to, be smart about it. bad things can happen. hopefully the mods wont move this even tho its not quite 5.0 related

VigCS

Ouch! Thanks for the warning; I plan on running nitrous eventually.

FullAuto

This is the same type of person who will get on a site and tell them that the nitrous blew his motor and now he's buying a KB.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

gearbanger

wow.. its ok nothing alittle duck tape cant fix lol

luckythirteen13

i made him buy a purge valve so the next motor doesnt end up as a boat anchor as well. we'll assemble it in the morning.

hdawg06

That's terrible.

kev2369

What a ****ty feeling that would be...

Jfsram

I ran nitrous through my 70 440 Road Runner for 3years without a purge valve. Never hurt the engine.
Instead of idle I'd bring it up 2 or 3 thousand rpm and just tap the button a few times.

luckythirteen13

you would think so but not for this guy. motors are a dime a dozen for him. hes already planning on building a 570ish motor when the new one pops

silver91gt

I used to just purge it on my burnout only hitting wot 2x really quick. worked well