Mustang burnout goes bad - video
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Mustang burnout goes bad - video
Anyone know what would cause a fire during a burnout like this?
http://mustangsdaily.com/blog/2012/0...tar-nationals/
http://mustangsdaily.com/blog/2012/0...tar-nationals/
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From: Insane
My guess is that there was an abundance of oxygen in enough quantities to interact with other chemicals in a violent enough way to cause combustion. Usually, this happens with heat, and heat can be gained in many ways. Friction is one, burning of materials is another.
In any event, with enough heat, oxygen, and various combustible materials available and in close proximity (combustion, by the way, being the event of oxygen violently 'merging' with another molecule in such a way as to make another molecule, plus give off heat) the happenstance of fire is inevitable. Some might say, it is destiny.
Especially if you overheat the tire and it explodes outward from the pressure, thereby causing the now very hot oxygen in the tire to just start making fire with the rubber. If the guy had put in Nitrogen, it wouldn't have happened, ostensibly, snuffing out any fire with the abundance of inert Nitrogen. This is the ONE instance where Nitrogen makes sense: racing, extreme temps.
By the way, time is the fire in which we burn...
/Burn baby burn.
//Disco inferno.
In any event, with enough heat, oxygen, and various combustible materials available and in close proximity (combustion, by the way, being the event of oxygen violently 'merging' with another molecule in such a way as to make another molecule, plus give off heat) the happenstance of fire is inevitable. Some might say, it is destiny.
Especially if you overheat the tire and it explodes outward from the pressure, thereby causing the now very hot oxygen in the tire to just start making fire with the rubber. If the guy had put in Nitrogen, it wouldn't have happened, ostensibly, snuffing out any fire with the abundance of inert Nitrogen. This is the ONE instance where Nitrogen makes sense: racing, extreme temps.
By the way, time is the fire in which we burn...
/Burn baby burn.
//Disco inferno.
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From: Boston
you could also make the argument that "mustang burnout goes awesome!!!!!!" scary but cool. burnouts are for entertainment purposes anyway what is more entertaining than the tire catching fire
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Originally Posted by houtex
My guess is that there was an abundance of oxygen in enough quantities to interact with other chemicals in a violent enough way to cause combustion. Usually, this happens with heat, and heat can be gained in many ways. Friction is one, burning of materials is another.
In any event, with enough heat, oxygen, and various combustible materials available and in close proximity (combustion, by the way, being the event of oxygen violently 'merging' with another molecule in such a way as to make another molecule, plus give off heat) the happenstance of fire is inevitable. Some might say, it is destiny.
Especially if you overheat the tire and it explodes outward from the pressure, thereby causing the now very hot oxygen in the tire to just start making fire with the rubber. If the guy had put in Nitrogen, it wouldn't have happened, ostensibly, snuffing out any fire with the abundance of inert Nitrogen. This is the ONE instance where Nitrogen makes sense: racing, extreme temps.
By the way, time is the fire in which we burn...
/Burn baby burn.
//Disco inferno.
In any event, with enough heat, oxygen, and various combustible materials available and in close proximity (combustion, by the way, being the event of oxygen violently 'merging' with another molecule in such a way as to make another molecule, plus give off heat) the happenstance of fire is inevitable. Some might say, it is destiny.
Especially if you overheat the tire and it explodes outward from the pressure, thereby causing the now very hot oxygen in the tire to just start making fire with the rubber. If the guy had put in Nitrogen, it wouldn't have happened, ostensibly, snuffing out any fire with the abundance of inert Nitrogen. This is the ONE instance where Nitrogen makes sense: racing, extreme temps.
By the way, time is the fire in which we burn...
/Burn baby burn.
//Disco inferno.
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Must likely he was running with less than 1/4 of gas in the tank and the pump overheated thus causing the fire
Is there really a need to do a burnout for that long?
or was he just trying to show off or something?
Is there really a need to do a burnout for that long?
or was he just trying to show off or something?
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Originally Posted by newpony
Must likely he was running with less than 1/4 of gas in the tank and the pump overheated thus causing the fire
Originally Posted by "new pony"
Is there really a need to do a burnout for that long? or was he just trying to show off or something?
or was he just trying to show off or something?
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From: CenTex...sort of
Anyone know what would cause a fire during a burnout like this?
http://mustangsdaily.com/blog/2012/0...tar-nationals/
http://mustangsdaily.com/blog/2012/0...tar-nationals/
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From: Slower Lower Delaware
doing a burnout requires you to use the brakes!!! the brakes make heat, tires spinning on pavement creates heat.. tires have a point at which they will catch fire and in this case it was all achieved at this time..
