Speaking of explosions...
http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/in...topic=117747.0

It was a faulty tank but its crazy how much force is stored in the back of your car.

 

Apparently this a pretty common practice... I thought my crazy ass was alone!

 

That was a tank of NO2 in the car in that pic. There is a very big difference between the amount of pressure in a "NAWS" tank and a LP tank. LP tanks are very thin because they don't contain much pressure. The propane is liquid inside the tank. If the propane were in the form of compressed gas it would be a very different story.

 

VERY INTERESTING!

J. R.

 

i mentioned this thread to a couple of f body enthusiast coworkers and they reminded me of this thread. just got forwarded the pictures and was about to post but you took care of that

 

So you can make a totally ridiculous comparison in your second post (stock gas tank is just as dangerous as propane tank), but I can't make one obviously satirical wisecrack?
Grow up.

I had no idea how much knowledge or experience you had on the subject before your post. Only clue I had was your 2 pictures (looks shadetree to me, sorry) and your posts, which have a very flip, casual attitude towards safety IMO.

If you had read the rest of my post, I even offered an example of a race car that ran exclusively on propane. It was a record setter at Pike's Peak hillclimb, and the car was built right and safely.

If you feel safe with your setup, great. Just please, for everyone's sake, don't use a bunsen burner, bernzomatic torch, or can of sterno as a bottle heater.

 

bottle heater not necessary, you can adjust the duty cycle of the propane solenoid on the fly, thus if you see bottle pressures are low due to it being cold outside or just being a little low on propane in the tank, you can adjust the fueling on the fly.

 

Are you using a proportional nitrous controller to adjust the duty cycle of the propane solenoid?

 

actually it uses its own controller box

yes i know its quite large and yes i know its kinda gaudy however as it stands it fits quite well in a pocket on the console of my buick out of site.

some people have broken the boxes down and reassembled them into a smaller form factor

here is a picture of the box



of course there is an issue with replicating this kit at this time as the solenoid is HUGE and flows more than any nitrous solenoid would, sourcing one for anyone's own kit would probably be quite an undertaking.

 

ugh, webshots sucks ass

here is a direct link to the fullsize

http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsi...039113784YdSCiy


this is the bracket mounted in the back of a 3si car

http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsi...039113784QgWzYI

pretty study stuff