new best...then up in flames
04-22-2005, 03:49 PM
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new best...then up in flames Well, my car burned up pretty bad today at the Year One event. Not really sure what happened, I'm thinking it was a nitrous backfire but I'm not sure yet. When I let off at the big end the car popped and started hesitating. I got the car stopped and it puffed a ton of smoke then burst into flames. I had to watch it burn while the fire truck did nothing. The guy that raced me had time to call his girlfriend and tell her to tell them it was on fire, then the tower had to announce it over the PA just so the fire crew knew to go down there! I'm done with Commerce, I'll drive two hours to another track before I go through all that again. It wouldn't have been nearly that bad if they had been paying attention. In the end I would say everything from the firewall up is gone, total loss. Even the underside of the dash was melting away and dripping burning plastic from the inside. Sucks.
04-22-2005, 04:18 PM
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Sorry to hear that, I saw the post in another thread about this.
I've seen it to many times here to not invest the money into a halon system for my car.
I'm sure yours is a street car still, so it's not as easy to think about.
Just sucks to hindsight it regardless.
I've seen it to many times here to not invest the money into a halon system for my car.
I'm sure yours is a street car still, so it's not as easy to think about.
Just sucks to hindsight it regardless.
04-22-2005, 05:20 PM
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I'm okay, all the damage was to the car. As far as the extinguisher, I have yet to buy one. I know I should have had one, it would have at least helped some. But hindsight is a m'fer I guess. Everyone take this as a lesson to BUY A FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
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04-22-2005, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by B18B1LS1
I'm okay, all the damage was to the car. As far as the extinguisher, I have yet to buy one. I know I should have had one, it would have at least helped some. But hindsight is a m'fer I guess. Everyone take this as a lesson to BUY A FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
My little bitty fire extinguisher probably would not help much...fits in the Formula's door pocket. I do carry a large one for the trailer.
I assume it was a wet kit? Take care and good luck on the repairs.
04-22-2005, 06:21 PM
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Nope, dry kit with just a 150 shot. Same thing I've been running for years. I have a wet kit on the car also, but I wasn't using it and it didn't even have any gas in the fuel cell or anything. Kinda weird. Thanks for the kind words, hopefully it will be better next time around.
04-22-2005, 07:50 PM
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man i saw that today and i was very sorry to see it. your car ran very well that pass and i think the mph was 127 but im not 100% sure on that. once again sorry for the bad luck.
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04-23-2005, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 01-Z
I'm curious how it started on fire on a dry shot. I can see how a leaky/bad fuel soleniod
would cause a fire on a wetshot.
I'm sorry about your car, that REALLY sucks!
would cause a fire on a wetshot.
I'm sorry about your car, that REALLY sucks!
