Miata Explosion!

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Originally Posted by cam76034

Only thing I've ever noticed on the fine print not to pour water on top of dry shock.

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My brother and I used to buy shock just to make bombs out of it ;)

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Originally Posted by MadMonkey

My brother and I used to buy shock just to make bombs out of it ;)

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Good books, gave me a lot of ideas :D ^^^

Sorry to hear about that, Rogue.

My brother had that happen in a '86 Nissan Pulsar with a Diehard battery several years ago. The next door neighbor also had one do that to him that was being stored in his garage.

Hope everything is ok with the car.

Same thing happened to me a few years ago in my '90. Fortunately I was in Wal Mart's parking lot, so I went in, got a battery and put it in. I cleaned the trunk with soda and water, but still had some damage in the trunk.

I reckon that's why the SCCA requires relocated batteries to be in a marine box and the Miata's battery is vented to the outside. Had a '66 VW bug with the battery under the back seat. Everytime somebody sat in the back the battery would short out on the underseat springs and the seat would get red hot and smoke. Thought it was a funny trick at the time. It's amazing that we all survived youth.....killed more people than smallpox.::Rimshot:

Man that sucks! Walmart had a Miata battery?! I've never seen anyplace that stocks the Miata sized battery!

At work, I've seen a few batteries that were so old and toasted that they were swollen like a balloon and about to explode!

That's crazy about the pool shock! We just take the little individual single use bags and just pour it into the pool.

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Originally Posted by tailchaser

Surprised that didn't happen when we did the overnight engine swap in Stretch's garage a few years ago...

Battery was too weak, so he grabbed the nearest charger and plugged it up... battery juice came pouring out onto the garage floor.

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Was that on Evilspeeder's swap? I don't recall that happening, but of course, I could have been pretending to put something onto something for the camera.

Doesn't look as bad now, but both sides are blown out.

Made a hell of a boom with the hardtop on.

all is ok and no damage to the Miata.

Alternator checked out fine.

What? Did you say something? Is there a phone ringing? Glad you OK Steven.

Gary