Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
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Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
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Re: Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
----, thats gotta be a shitload of boost to rip one one of those apart. maybe he had it mounted so that too much vibrations got to it and weakened it?
ive seen diesels run 50+ psi on stock ic's
ive seen diesels run 50+ psi on stock ic's
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Re: Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
Originally Posted by t_cel_t
----, thats gotta be a shitload of boost to rip one one of those apart. maybe he had it mounted so that too much vibrations got to it and weakened it?
ive seen diesels run 50+ psi on stock ic's
ive seen diesels run 50+ psi on stock ic's
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Re: Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
As little as 6psi coming through enough of a hole is enough to rip aluminum apart. Mythbusters will show you that with the gun in the plane myth. You won't get sucked out the hole (which was the idea of the myth), but it will still shred the aluminum.
It's just that in a 2 or 2.5" charge pipe system there probably isn't enough volume to do that usually, unless the pressures get super high.
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It's just that in a 2 or 2.5" charge pipe system there probably isn't enough volume to do that usually, unless the pressures get super high.
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Re: Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
more like 4" charge piping.
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Re: Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
Right, so there's 4x the volume of a 2" system of the same length, more aluminum shredding powa!
But if it was from valvetrain malfunction I can see that happening too.
But if it was from valvetrain malfunction I can see that happening too.
