Re: Fire extinguishers save cars!

[Ben]

yeah its mainly only when they are cold, plus they arent jetted right, so if you stab the pedal under 3k rpm theres a fairly good chance it will backfire ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Rudd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:52 AM Subject: RE: Fire extinguishers save cars! Have you got flame suppressors fitted, they are supposed to lessen the chances of you're webers igniting from a backfire - they should only spit a bit when they're cold during transition from idle to main jets anyway otherwise your timing is retarded.   TR -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Sent: Friday, 22 March 2002 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fire extinguishers save cars! yeah, ive got one bolted under my passenger seat, my twin webers backfire a fair bit, i can see them catching on fire :( ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Cherry To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:28 AM Subject: Re: Fire extinguishers save cars! Yeah i saved sum poor bastard one day ... i was driving home & i saw this smoke coming form this fella'scar on the side of the road.. so i grabbed the extinguisher (which i had b4 the car was even stopped)& ran & put it out for him... & i dont thyink i would take my car anywhere without one .... way too risky ... but the only reason i had it is for doing autocross .. cos we have to have one .... but i reckon it's one of the main things u need in a car .. but even more if you have a modified car ( costs & effort & stuff) ... it's just not worth the risk !!!! Matt C   ----- Original Message ----- From: mark krawczuk To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:29 PM Subject: Re: Fire extinguishers save cars! i had a 265 charger with tripple webbers, a fuel fitting came loose, and  i started to smell petrol....stopped the car, lifted the bonnet  and the whole engine bay was  COVERED  in petrol........lucky it never ignited.......     i also had a 73 jaguar, and i  saw this bit of what i THOUGHT was a  metal bracket about 10 mm dia,  just protruding below the rear beaver ? panel, ( cant remember what i was actually doing to it)  near  one of the rear fuel tanks,  bewdy, if i cut this off it will make it easier for me, wirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr with the angle grinder straight thru  the  FUEL  line, petrol over the angle grinder, did i drop that  quick..... lucky that also never caught on fire....       mark k ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Kroehn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:41 PM Subject: Re: Fire extinguishers save cars! Same thing happened to my car with the twin webers.  Some fuel soaked into the filter socks and when the car somehow backfired they went up.  Luckily they just melted and the fire went out.  I didn't have an extinguisher on me and it had to be put out with a rag.  Anyway the only damage was melted unifilters all over the passengers side of the engine bay.  From now on I carry an extinguisher with me everywhere.   Daniel Kroehn   ----- Original Message ----- From: David Thompson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:34 AM Subject: Fire extinguishers save cars! List, Unfortunately my 1600 suffered an engine bay fire yesterday morning due to a broken o-ring on one of the injectors. This dumped fuel at 40psi all over the exhaust manifold (wrapped in thermotec wrap) and started a fire. The first think I noticed was a faint but powerful fuel smell, which quickly went away. I dismissed this smell as being the car next door, which looked dodgy and was pouring out smoke from the exhaust. I then noticed smoke pouring out the rear of the car in the mirror and pulled over. By this time there were flames coming out from all sides of the bonnet. The first thing I did was to lift the bonnet – big mistake! The flames jumped straight out and burnt my arm and hair. Shocked by this I let go of the bonnet and it latched shut again. I then emptied a $16 fire extinguisher aimed from under the front of the car and this instantly put out the fire. If I did not have this, then the car would certainly have burnt to the ground. Moral of the story - always carry a fire extinguisher! I would like to thank the guy in the extended port rotary 1200 ute who was the only one to stop and offer assistance. Luckily I have full comprehensive insurance with Shannon’s. 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