Nominee for dumb move of the Weekend Award.

[98ciHemi]

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I nominate Luke (betterwithboost) for locking the keys in the firecracker at the track

[terry russell]

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I nominate Luke (betterwithboost) for locking the keys in the firecracker at the track

x2

[TheSilverBuick]

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I nominate Luke (betterwithboost) for locking the keys in the firecracker at the track

LMAO! Awesome. ;D

[std]

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It was ok. Seth had an extra key.....kinda

[Scott Liggett]

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I nominate Luke (betterwithboost) for locking the keys in the firecracker at the track

LMAO! Awesome. ;D

Only thing better would be locking them while it's running and on the track.

I'll never forget my high school car buddy, Bob Leach, put together a 11.0:1, solid cammed, 289 into his 76 Ford Elite. When we fired it. We had to keep running to the key to shut it off because it was springing leaks everywhere. Bob got tired of running around that big door to the key, so he planted one on the fender and grabbed the coil wire with the other. He got zapped good that he hit his head on the hood four times before he could let go; then danced across the yard yelling obscenities. I think it took a week before he had full use of his right arm again.

who cares about the arm - how long before your side stopped hurting from laughing so hard? ;)

Stomach muscles cramped up from laughing.

[MadmanMark]

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I have a tip - If you're not a big guy, don't try to remove an iron intake while wearing flip flops from outside the engine compartment.

After my 1st cam change working in an apartment garage, I was trying to lay down the heavy iron intake (with carb attached) leaning over the front of the car. It happened so fast all I remember thinking was to get my fingers out of there. Thankfully, the front sway bar saved me from getting car juice in my hair. I also remember laughing for a moment while laying upside down on the sway bar when I noticed the flip flops hadn't moved.

Afterwards, I realized I could get into the engine compartment, making it a lot easier to drop on the intake.

[kyhunter89]

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reminds me of hitting the metal fuel filter against the alts hot terminal

[dieselgeek]

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Rebeldryver's story is eerily similar to one of my own from last fall:

Some of you know my buddy Mike Higginson - "wired4speed" - he is an electronics and wiring guru. He wired up an EMS in a very clean Nissan 300Z turbo, last fall, and had me come over to fire it up and start tuning it.


It was misfiring on one cylinder, so he was trying to find out which cylinder. His method was to pull the plug wires at the distributor one at a time since he couldn't easily get to the plug ends of the wires (there was an MSD-6 and Blaster coil on this one). Bad idea. I am not sure why this happened, but - he pulls off one of the wires off the cap, and of course it shocks him. So he lets go of the wire, and is STILL getting hammered by MSD sparks arcing a 3' gap! I shut the key off after the first hit, but this car has a "turbo timer" and the engine keeps running another 30 seconds! Mike runs around to the passenger side of the car, STILL getting arcs from the damn MSD!! He ended up running out of the garage and finally stopped getting shocked. He was PISSED. "WTF was that all about???" he was yelling. Neither of us to this day understand how/why he was getting shocked AFTER letting go of the plug wire. He had "bite marks" all up and down his right arm, and it was numb for the rest of the day.

[IRONHEAD]

Re: Nominee for dumb move of the Weekend Award.

Rebeldryver's story is eerily similar to one of my own from last fall:

Some of you know my buddy Mike Higginson - "wired4speed" - he is an electronics and wiring guru. He wired up an EMS in a very clean Nissan 300Z turbo, last fall, and had me come over to fire it up and start tuning it.


It was misfiring on one cylinder, so he was trying to find out which cylinder. His method was to pull the plug wires at the distributor one at a time since he couldn't easily get to the plug ends of the wires (there was an MSD-6 and Blaster coil on this one). Bad idea. I am not sure why this happened, but - he pulls off one of the wires off the cap, and of course it shocks him. So he lets go of the wire, and is STILL getting hammered by MSD sparks arcing a 3' gap! I shut the key off after the first hit, but this car has a "turbo timer" and the engine keeps running another 30 seconds! Mike runs around to the passenger side of the car, STILL getting arcs from the damn MSD!! He ended up running out of the garage and finally stopped getting shocked. He was PISSED. "WTF was that all about???" he was yelling. Neither of us to this day understand how/why he was getting shocked AFTER letting go of the plug wire. He had "bite marks" all up and down his right arm, and it was numb for the rest of the day.

bet he has a s/s pin in his arm/hand

[dieselgeek]

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bet he has a s/s pin in his arm/hand

Now that you mention it, he had surgery just a few weeks before that incident where they installed a metal plate and rod in his left hand... never thought of that, would it shock him even if the hardware in his arm wasn't grounded?!?

[IRONHEAD]

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bet he has a s/s pin in his arm/hand

Now that you mention it, he had surgery just a few weeks before that incident where they installed a metal plate and rod in his left hand... never thought of that, would it shock him even if the hardware in his arm wasn't grounded?!?

he was not fly'n so, if he was standing on the ground, and not in rubber soles,, yes

[IRONHEAD]

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and don't ask how I'd know this ;D

[Scott Liggett]

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bet he has a s/s pin in his arm/hand

Now that you mention it, he had surgery just a few weeks before that incident where they installed a metal plate and rod in his left hand... never thought of that, would it shock him even if the hardware in his arm wasn't grounded?!?

he was not fly'n so, if he was standing on the ground, and not in rubber soles,, yes

Arm acted like a lightning rod.