Well, last night my car cought on fire. I'm using different secondaries that had to be modified slightly to fit. One of the o-rings didn't seat properly, and after a thousand miles of driving on horribly maintained highways with really stiff suspension, the o-ring got pinched and started leaking.



I was driving down the street and heard a poof and saw a flash in my rearview. In about 10 seconds smoke started coming out from my hood. I pulled over, popped the hood, and ran in a store I stopped in front of, amd grabbed a fire extinguisher. Put that sucker out and then started swearing. I was in San Francisco, and since there's no parking allowed anywhere near where I was, I had to call a tow truck to get me home. I was about 60 miles from home, so it cost me $375 to tow the car home.



I cleaned the car off today, and pulled the manifolds and turbo off. Overall, it's not so bad. I need new primary and secondary injector plugs, new MOP lines, and new fuel, coolant, brake booster and vacuum lines. I hope my secondaries are OK, they don't look damaged. I'm gonna pull off the harness and re-wrap it, since some of the tape melted.

Man that suxs, you're making me scared now.. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/unsure.png

No need to be scare. Have a fire extinguisher in the car. I have 2.

Just pressure test everything with more pressure than need a few times. And rock everything back and forth. Then warm up the engine and check again. Let it heat soak good for a while. If doesn't leak then, is all good, nothing to worry about. When putting orings make sure they are greased up a little so the seat nicely and don't get pinched next time.



C

wow, that sucks. get the banzai wrap, it works!



mike

that stinks all of my cars are gettin fire extinguishers!

Yea I've had a fire extinguisher for a year now in the car.. And I've tested to 90psi warm and cold... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

Yeah, I'll be putting a fire extinguisher in my car from now on. I'm just lucky it caught on fire where it did. If it happened on the freeway, I'd have been royally fucked.

how is your screenname said, in my head i keep saying "knee-voooooooooooooosh"



kevin.,

that sucks man



I can't believe I don't have a fire extinguisher in my FC.. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

I had one in my FC somehow the pin got pulled. You can guess what happened next. It looked like a scene from a cheach and chong movie.



You just reminded me I need to go to Home Depot and get me another $10 extinguisher.



Or maybe I'll go to the speed shop and get a $50 one. J/K