blower blows up

This too can happen to you if you adjsut stuff on your car w/o knowing what you are doing....

http://www.godmanhiperformance.com/videos/1975boweevil1blowup.mpg

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That old man that looks like Santa Claus is very very lucky!!

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Yea, Looks like the tuner made a quick dive for the barrel valve since the main by-pass closed up. You could tell by the guy in the blue t-shirt knew something wasnt right.

Then Mr. Wheelchair came in to have a closer look. I wonder how he ended up in that wheel chair-hydraulicing a Blown alky motor in a FE dragster perhaps?

Those sling-shot pilots are nuts to begin with. But then to tune the thing by leaning over the top of the buzzard catcher-hmmmm.

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Takes a lot of krack to do that, doesn't it, Kraiggy. ;-)

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Glad to see santa claus was all right. I need some ET slicks this christmas. ;-)

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You pple aint gonna believe this, but that is where I work. Preston(santa clause) is the old driver. The man in the wheelchair is Mr Ray Godman. That is the old Bo-Weevil car he ran in 79. The way the boss got in the chair is a sniper shot him in the back in the Korean war. The reason it blew is because the blower was not on the right lower manifold. It was on about 85% nitro. so when he gunned it...BOOM!

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you were right I don't believe it. That has got to be too much coincidence... lol

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when was that video taken? looks newer.

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It was taken roughly 3 weeks ago. They are getting the cat ready to go to Bowling Green for the Holley reunion. They are supposed to put it in the "cackle-fest". That video should have never gotten out, when Preston found out he went nuts! lol When I found out the web guy put it on the web I asked him if he was told to put it on there. lol He said no, but nobody told him not to! Preston actually wanted to shut the car down, but Mr Ray said to rap it one time first. That clip is only part of a longer vid. In the long version you can see Preston wanting to shut it down. The guy in blue is just one of our friends from another shop there to see the car run(boy did he get a show)

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The reason it blew is because the blower was not on the right lower manifold. It was on about 85% nitro. so when he gunned it...BOOM!
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Are you saying that these guys are running a nitro slingshot, and didnt know which manifold to set the huffer on?

Thats a scarry thought in itself. Of course, old nitro-runners arent exactly known for being all that smart(sarcasm). Afterall, they do strap themselves to a 5000 hp blown injected motor running on a nitro/alky mix.

I only deal with injected motors on alky, and believe me, the invisible flames can scare the **** out of you!

Glad everyone is ok.

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It was a gap at the back of the manifold under the blower backing plate that not checked. The boss had switched them and told nobody, that is how it was over looked. Needless to say, there was a couple of unhappy pple when that come to light.