Stupid question that i've always wondered about.

[toki]

Ok, this is a hypothetical, nothing I ever plan to try.

Say you take an engine, build is strong, lets say an EFI V12 in this case. Bulletproof it as much as it can be bulletproofed.

Now you put an ungodly amount of nitrous on it, like say a 1000 shot, literally.

One run at the 1/4. Will it make down the track?

If not, what would fail first? The valvetrain, the pistons, the cylinder walls, etc?

I am not concerned with "oh the driveshaft will snap" or "you won't have traction" This is just a hypothetical here.

[GELLIS2586]

Who really knows the answer without just pulling something out of their butt. I think it'd be awesome to see. Kind of like a video of a test ferrari that I saw and they blew the engine. That was sweet. The hood/engine cover (mid engine) shot off smoke everywhere it was sweet.

[toki]

yeah i've seen that too....ok who has a car, and engine, a driver willing to get dismembered and $20,000?

*waits for TMS to voulenteer*

[s13sr20chris]

i donate my b12 to the cause.

[toki]

still waiting on: 20 thousand and a driver.

[Eswift]

i think the smoke on the ferrari was a engine compartment halon system going off.

[MrFox]

Go to Reno in the beginning of September. Watch nitrous fed, 3500hp V-12s run like Swiss-watches for hours on end.

EDIT: Its not EFI though... you can't expect a 50 year old engine to run well without 50 year old carburators can you?

[MrFox]

This year's unlimited gold race winner: Dago Red

487.938mph

[psychic_mechanic]

It depends on the engine, different engines have different weak spots.

I'd say with everything even though, excluding head gaskets, the first to go would be pistons because they're aluminum and reach ungodly feet per second speeds than abruptly stop and go the other direction just as fast.

[I Need $$$]

Is it a wet or dry system:D

[aaronsnocker1]

I'll drive. I don't mind dying.

[CrashGordon]

The question is completely dependant on what caused the engine blowup. If it was from sheer overpowering, i would say that a rod or the crank would fail first, possibly even the block. But if the motor ran lean i would say that it would be the pistons or valves.

I have seen valves melted to little nubs from improper nitrous tuning. I have also seen pistons cracked in half from the same thing.

There are soo many thinks that could go wrong that this question is impossible to answer.

Hell with that type of power level a missed spark could cause the motor to hydrolock on gas. Anything is possible at these levels.

[Chally]

Bullet proof? What size bullets?

My bet would be blowing a rod through the side.