what happened?

 

The dyno run we witnessed netted nearly 1600 horsepower before the intake collapsed from the pressure.

 

says it collapsed from too much pressure, looks more like someone hit it :lol: pressure explodes, not implodes.

 

Ive seen it collapsed on reciprocal engines in airplanes, I believe it has to do with negative pressure (imploding) over positive pressure (exploding) image grabbing a 2 liter plastic coke bottle and sucking the hell out of it, it will collapse.

 

i dont get it....how could it collapse from pressure...i would think it would blow out....unless there was a vacuum it would collapse (i could be wrong)

 

I assume an intake sucks in air. So it was sucking air in at such a high rate the pipe couldn't handle it

 

i HIGHLY doubt that, there would have to be an INSANE pressure drop in the system to collapse a metal intake pipe.

 

didn't see the text in the middle of the pics

 

after the throttle plate you'd see vacuum, before the throttle plate you'd see what you just described.

 

Guys, you're looking at the wrong spot. The crushed pipe shown is on the inlet of one of the turbos. Depending on the CFM draw of the turbo at full spool and what that piping is made out of (looks to be aluminum since it's TIG'd), it's conceivable it could collapse.

 

exactly...so the question still stands ...WTF happend?

 

Someone hit that shit, those mofo's are full of it.

That car is absolutely sexy as hell though minus the paint, good god.

 

:agreed: On all accounts Captain Kirk.

 

Money to burn for real.

 

Actually I changed my mind and I'm wrong. Looking at it again it looks to me like that's the pressurized outlet of the intercooler to the throttle body, not the inlet piping of the turbo. So yeah, I'm not sure I can see how it would collapse. It's never going to be under vacuum other than at idle, and no way is the motor drawing enough vacuum to distort the aluminum.

 

what probably happened was....


WHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CLANK BANG OH SHIT!
what the hell was that?
*sees piping*

*reporter sees piping*

(quick spout some bullshit to the reporter!)

"the intake collapsed under the pressure of the turbos"

 

HAHAH, YOU"RE 100% right....

there is paint and marks on the dent.

NO AMOUNT OF VACUUM is going to create that texture and remove paint on the outside of the pipe.

 

That pipe was def struck by something, notice the direction of the paint pealed and a small line that continues in the paint just marring it not scratching it afterwards, and the way the indents are would leave me to belive it is blunt force trama (haha) if the motor was strong enough to create such a vaccuum i would be left to believe that it would have completley pinched itself off, suffocating the motor... But that is just my .02 but it still passed 1600 hp thats impressive eitherway.

 

The crappy plastic yellow hose that came with my air compressor can take like 120psi. I'm sure a metal pipe can take a mere 30psi. That pipe was hit by something.

Besides, in that part of the piping, it would expand, not collapse. There is no vacuum after the turbos at WOT. If there would be anywhere that any pipe would fail, it would be between the turbo and the intercooler, if the intercooler was choking off flow and backing up pressure. And even in that case, it would expand.

 

ECHO echo echo

 

Well everyone kept talking about vacuum. There aint no vacuum there! :lol:

 

I only did because at first I thought it was on the inlet side of the snail.