$700 Car vs 250 Shot Of Nitrous **Doesn’t End Well**

I’m going to tell you up front, this video is pretty long, but it’s well worth the time, especially the last 5 minutes! For for those last 5 minutes to make sense, you have to watch the first 15, so just grab a snack and go ahead and watch this one play out from the beginning.

The Vehicle Virgins have picked up a $700 Crown Victoria and absolutely gone to town modifying it in the most ridiculous ways imaginable. The most obvious modification was cutting the roof off, making it one of very few Crown Vic roadsters in the world. They’ve wired in a speaker to play siren-esque noises, and there’s the small matter of their own version of a direct-port nitrous system. Not “direct-port” in the that the nitrous feeds directly into the intake port, “direct-port” in that there are no jets or solenoids, just a bottle and a feed line dumping a LOT of spray directly into the throttle body.

As you’d expect, this results in a pretty signifiant increase in horsepower for the Ford cruiser. They take the car out for a spin and do some testing of the nitrous kit, though we have to use the word “kit” loosely based on the lack of components typically found in a nitrous system. They kick the car on motor and the results are yawn-inspiring, so the next pull, they open the valve on the nitrous bottle and the car really wakes up, thanks to the massive jet of nitrous spraying into the intake. They make a few pulls with the nitrous, even dropping the car into gear from neutral to really stress-test the drivetrain. Surprisingly, the car handles the abuse like a champ, a definite indicator of the Crown Vic’s durability.

However, upon returning to the garage, the engine erupted into flames thanks to a small fuel leak that found a surface in the engine bay hot enough to ignite. The Vehicle Virgin guys grab a fire extinguisher and get the flames knocked out in moments, keeping the fire from spreading. This was an awesome experiment that went well, but ended badly, resulting in a stern “Do not try this” warning, which we certainly have to echo!