[callmethewander]

I went to look at an '86 928 today that hasn't run in a couple of years, the owner said it was running fine but he had not been using it so only started it occasionally until once when it did not start. He bought a 968 and was living out of town so the car was just sitting for close to a couple years now. Well, of course it wouldn't start so we opened the airbox and i sprayed in starter fluid as the owner cranked the engine, it seemed to almost start several times until, as i was spraying in the starter fluid... BOOOM!!! I am not kidding the sound deafened me and sent me backwards. When i moved back to look under the hood, both of the air inlet boxes on the sides of the intake manifolds had blown completely off at the place where they clamp onto the the intake pipes, the insulation from the hood was blown off and all over the place, a small pipe at the back of one of the side airboxes was broken off, and i was completely disoriented. What the heck could have happened? anybody know?