Intercooler explosion... Safety blankets required in future??
 

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http://video.streetlegaltv.com/video...l.php?mId=7127

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

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------- crazy. imagine that happening on the dyno or something without a helmet. goodbye eardrums?

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Holly crap!!

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thats crazzy,

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No its doesnt really have to be ALOT of boost, even though it is. They said he dropped a guide, which would cause pressure from the cylinders to enter back into the intake stream. Over pressurizing the system.

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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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I thought it was one hell of a nitrous backfire. :P

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more like 4" charge piping.

from the owner

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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.