Veyron in the water? LOL

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That's top notch. Especially likeing the "I will own that one day. That Lambo" remark. Freeze framing does reveal he hit...something, anyway.

As far as leaving the engine go for 15 minutes..
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You think if he wanted to write it off he'd have revved it so it would have locked up quick. Or, alternately, he just is really that stupid.


Cheers,
Corey
 
Ouch.. That's gonna hurt the owner. That is a problem of owning a very expensive car :(

EDIT : Luckily he owns a company that restores exotic cars as ''R1600Turbo'' said :p
 
You'd think he would have handsfree, voice activated phone jack with bluetooth compatibility. I think a Corolla has it standard.
 
I love how one of the guys says "That will be mine one day", the other asks "what is it?" and he responds "Pretty sure it's a Lambo dude".

So it will be his one day, but has no idea what it is and calls it a "Lambo" which seems to be the generic name for all unknown low supercars.
 
Duke
No, outboard boat motors nearly all exhaust under water, and many inboard light craft also. They use the water as a muffler, basically. The exhaust just bubbles to the top.
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Hey there,

I'm very familiar how the outboard motor works. Their engines are tuned and designed around the principal of increasd back pressure. I'm sure that the relative submerged depth and consequent additional pressure would have come into play here. The underwater exhaust on an outboard also relies on the speed of the gearcase going through the water which creates a low pressure at the port outlet that actually draws the exhaust gas out. At rest, the exhaust gas pressure is not sufficient to push the water out of the way. Consequently, they also have to have an idle exhaust port above the water line since at low RPM (and speed) there is not sufficient exhaust gas pressure to push the water away so to speak (or when reversing). If this exhaust port is submerged for more than a few moments, it can suck water into the engine and more easily kill the O2 sensor by getting it wet.

I said what I did since most engines that I have seen that are designed to run in relatively low back pressure environments (road going vehicles) are easily suffocated when their exhaust is resrticted. I used to ride motorcycles and found great pleasure in pulling up to a light with a group of friends, and ever so slightly (and unbeknownst to him) put my foot up against my friend's exhaust pipe which usually killed his engine before the light turned :)

I don't mean to contradict you, but simply to shed some light on where my original perspective came from :)

Update: Having just watched the video and the one with the tow truck driver, I can see that the car is not really submerged that much and I can appreciate the fact that there would not be a particularly high degree of increased back pressure here due to the minimal distance of the exhaust below the water line. It is quite possible that the car could remain running, but also a decent likelyhood of it sucking water back up through the engine.
 
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Jim Prower
Y'know, I have a quick little parody for it...

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"You say Veyron didn't want to take the road through the aviary and drove into a pond? Well, we'll have GT-R take that drive. Oh, and Veyron? We'll have to leave him there."

Some boys were walking to school, and stopped to look. "Doesnt' he look silly," they said, "They'll never get him out."

They began to sing,

"'Silly old Veyron fell in a pond
fell in a pond
fell in a pond
Silly old Veyron fell in a pond
all on a monday morning'"

"Pshaaaw," snorted Veyron, and blew away three tadpoles, and an inquisitive newt.

((loosely adapted from Rev. W. Awdry's story, "Off the Rails"))
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A wave of nostalgia has just flooded over me...

...and not like the water flooding over the Veyron.
 
Duke
My suspicion is that the guy couldn't actually afford it and did it on purpose for insurance. I mean come on, a pelican AND a cell phone? Plus leaving it running underwater for 15 minutes to guarantee it would be a writeoff?
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Yup. Guy owns his own supercar restoration biz. He can bring it to his own shop, bill the insurance as much as he wants and makes a killing.
 
As far as the exhaust being underwater, I've been out in a Jeep Wranger in enough mud and water that it was coming in the doors. We were stuck, and the left the engine running in case it wouldn't start because the exhaust was underwater. It idled there for probably 10-15 minutes before our friend arrived in a Super Duty to yank us out.

All past midnight. :lol:
 
Your friend got there quick :) I'll bet you were happy to see him.

I too have had my exhaust underwater while launching my boat when the lake was down in drought conditions. I had to back down the ramp a lot further, past the end of the ramp to get the boat off the trailer and the exhaust was under water by about 10 inches. I wasn't exactly happy about it and I moved as quickly as I could in getting the boat off the trailer.

I think that there are many variables affecting the actual circumstance, such as depth below the surface, exhaust overall length, engine displacement, engine tuning (camshaft overlap) and submerged time. I know vehicles, such as military types that are accustomed to running through water have their intake and exhaust positioned higher so as not to be submerged.

In any case, it's not a very comfortable feeling, is it :nervous:
 
This car used to be seen around Houston quite a bit, and a few times outside Ft. Worth. And considering he owns the world's largest auto restoration firm, fixing this wouldn't be too much in his mind. Guy even fixed & now owns the Enzo Eddie Griffin crashed.
 
I did realize that the scoops atop the car MAY BE intakes, so the engine may not be quite as waterlogged as we think. Still, not entirely sure.
 
Jim Prower
I did realize that the scoops atop the car MAY BE intakes, so the engine may not be quite as waterlogged as we think. Still, not entirely sure.
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Yes I realized this also on the second or third day but never felt the need to post realization. Still, the point of leaving it run for 15 minutes, submerged or just chillin there, is a little excessive.


Cheers,
Jetboy
 
There is a video on youtube of it actually happening, but the guys with the camera(pretty stupid guys in fact, thinking its a lambo) said a few AUP unfriendly words when it happened. I still ROTFLMAO.
 
Thatman
from:
sdingeswho on youtube:
I just read the best part (from Channel 11 here in Houston, and the Houston Chronicle): The owner is a fellow named Andy House, who lives near Lufkin in east Texas, and the kicker is that he makes his living (apparently a pretty good one, if he can afford a Veyron) *restoring damaged exotic cars for re-sale*! :-O Must be karma (make that "car-ma"); at least he's in the right business --- he just became "his own best client" LOL!
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If this is true I'm willing to bet this was a publicity stunt.
 

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