A friend of mine has a SC 4th gen in the shop right now. the car has been vandalized hardcore but thats besides the point of the story.
someone decided they wanted to try to see how much suction was produced by the turbine so he stuck his hand close to it and opened throttle.
long story short- 3 finger tips missing

no pics, sorry.

 

 

some people are stooopid

 

Did he have pieces of finger shooting out his exhaust? They had to go somewhere!

 

 

 

OMG........

 

he got

 

 

um ill find out if the fingers came out the exhaust. maybe some red smoke or something
ha yes it is. LEMME TRY TO GET PICS

 

or a vid would be better

 

You're joking right? Nobody could be this stupid...

 

 

How about biodegradeable lubricant...?

how much more earth friendly can you get...?

 

Sounds painful.

 

was it one of the "bad guys" that got his fingers chopped off, or was it one of the people at the shop?

 

hey jet - sure it wasn't some sort of yakuza punishment gone really wrong? as in losing 3 finger bits instead of 1 being chopped off? j/k

 

haha could be.
nah i dont think it was anyone involved in the vandalism, just some dimwit checkin out the car.

yes pics would be good. but if this thread is so worthless, im going to search the org for another instance of this happening haha

 

Eww. They're probably at the screen of the MAF sensor.

-Ben

 

What a tool.

 

oh man, the price of wanting to learn new things =/

 

OMFG?!?!!!?!!??!?!

you would have heard the most god awful scream of terror coming out of me if that had either happened to me or if i was there and watced it happen.

of corse i am not the stupid seeing as thought the compressor blade looks like it can do a **** load of damage.

need a pic please at leat of the bloddy compressor blade...

 

my friend says they cleaned out the mess. but i dont know, the finger tips could be in there somewhere..

 

I nearly lost my fingers recently working on a saturn. Turnd of the windshield wipers and reaching into the linkage by the motor under the hood. Turns out I set it to intermittent...

The linkage grabbed myfingers and forced them against the sharp edge of a piece of sheet metal and cut two down to the bone. Not enough force to break the bones, though... *phew*

 

I bet someone actually sued Stillen for this, that's why they relocate the MAF to the intake pipe, so if one attempts to try this trick, the car will shut off itself once he loose the intake pipe.

 

People, you should never put your fingers in the S/C inlet. Human flesh is not a good oxidizer or a good fuel. It will act as an inhibitor and actually cause your engine to lose HP.

 

Might work for a flux capacitor...