can anyone say "oops"

http://www.streetfire.net/video/honda-crx-gone-really-bad_742623.htm

Boost in - Flywheel out

Can you say "Scatter shield"? I didn't think so.

Good thing that it's a left-hand drive or he might have a chunk of steel in place of his wiggly bits...

MASSIVE failure

I thought scatter shields were mandatory in drag racing.

HA-HA! (Nelson from the Simpsons)

WOWZA!!!

IIRC, scatter shields are only mandatory in certain classes or if a car reaches a certain E.T.

Of course this was in Puerto Rico so they may not follow the same rules as the mainland. I have no idea if the NHRA sanctions the track there.

now that was scary....

might be a bit of a silly question, but how would one add a scatter shield to a FWD car with a transverse mounted engine?

There's sanctioning bodies in Puerto Rico?

Slyp_Dawg wrote: might be a bit of a silly question, but how would one add a scatter shield to a FWD car with a transverse mounted engine?

Same way you add a scatter blanket to a cop or a soldier ;)

You wrap it in a carbon/kevlar blanket.

I am not certain much would have contained that popper. Look at the damage to the radiator support and the fixed points.

Big Jim McBob: "Blowed up good, didn't it?"
Billy Sol Hurok: "Yeah, blowed up real good!"

In reply to John Brown:

Yeah. I guess a loose flywheel with the starter gear attached would be a 8000rpm buzzsaw..

We need a google eye's smiley!

I'd like to see inside the car. The rad support and everything else was destroyed, I wonder how much went into the passanger compartment?

Adrian_Thompson wrote: I wonder how much went into the passanger compartment?

Yeah, I was hoping to see the pass compartment too. I guess that's what you get when you build your car at Pep Boys

oops

I was the first to say it, what do I win?

EricM wrote: oops I was the first to say it, what do I win?

Can I interest you in some barely-used CRX parts?

Ouch.

hehehe honda go boom

That'll

................wait for it

buff right out!

orphancars wrote: That'll ................wait for it buff right out!

What are you going to buff with? The remains of the drives nut sack?

wonder if that was the result of a home brew flywheel shaving?

Yard sale on the dragstrip= major failness.

I thought it was funny how the front of the car just fell apart.

Would have been more funny to see the flywheel trying to escape down the strip on it's own

I think he hit the nawz button too soon and/or didn't double clutch like he should have.