femurphy77
Grandmaster
The ones on YouTube usually involve some rich wannabe continually flipping the throttle until the turbo(s) are glowing red hot and then ignite something within the engine compartment. An untimely death at the hands of a moron is never a good thing.We built a mold for the fan shroud on the second generation Acura NSX. The Honda engineers nitpicked every detail of that part. We must have made 20 engineering changes to the mold. And the changes were crazy. Changing the angle of ribs from 3 degrees to 5 degrees. Sent it back and changed them to 2 degrees. Changing radii from a half mm to 1.5mm. You'd think this simple fan shroud was going to Mars. Honda engineers are usually really good at getting things right on the first try but on this job, they were all over the place.
Then I ran across this article and it all made sense...
2016 Acura NSX Burns To The Ground During ‘Ring Testing: Update
You can even see a nicely charred fan shroud in some of the pics...
I guess I could see why they were trying to eek out every last bit of airflow.