Thread: How to blow up a vehicle?

Get a flammable substance between its LEL and UEL. (ie mix in some air or oxygen). Provide the minimum ignition energy, or heat it up higher then its autoignition temperature. And boom. Simple. Good picks are gases and dusts. Methane explosions have killed dozens of people over the last year in my country alone.

The numbers can be found on google for most common substances.

Explosives also work, but thats what they are supposed to do.

I would personally go with a tactical nuke but if you don't want to have to worry about a crater THAT BIG C4 is a good choice.

If you are not worried about a big bang and igniting the petrol tank is sufficient a firelighter under each wheel and ignite the tyres is a good way to do this.

So here's the thing: Most explosives don't cause much of a blaze and most flammables don't cause much of a bang. A molotov cocktail will leave only the skeleton of a car, but there isn't much of a BOOM. High grade explosives will tear it apart, but they won't give much of a FWOOSH.

You could toss in an average pipebomb with 8 coke-bottles strapped around it. Fill them with flammables, sticky is good but the important part is that it ignites easily. The bomb ignites the flammable liquid and spreads it through out the car, giving off the initial blast from the bomb, the pressure that builds up from all the accelerant igniting at the same time thanks to the spread. Together these would punch out the windows and give you a big theatrical FWOOSH as the flames blast out in all directions. After that you'd mostly see billowing black smoke from the burning synthetic materials in the car.

This is of course in theory. I can't guarantee it's gonna go down this way every time in case someone wants to go Mythbysters with the old car wreck in the back yard. ;P

Also, if you don't want to complicate your life with chemistry, you don't have to specify the ingredients or explosives. Give a rough idea of the theory behind the bomb, say he got it off some shady website and picked up the ingredients at home depot. That place should be classified as an armory for anyone with a browser anyway.