Fire Extinguishers

[Argess]

I now seem to have a lot of information. There's a Fire & Safety Supply business close by. I think maybe I'll go talk to them. At least now, I can speak more knowledgeably about it when I go see them.

This is a great site. I now have info on brake upgrades, rev limiters and fire extinguishers. All good winter projects, as long as I don't have to brake hard, have a fire, or over-rev the engine before then.

Not to mention all the help when my engine wasn't running right. Good or bad,I apprecaite those who helped or tried to help. Thank-you.

[patrickt]

You know I think of Nova Scotia as being on the Arctic Circle, but I guess if you're in the southern region then you're really not much further north than Concord.

[CCX 33239]

The root cause was a loose fuel line Patrick. But it was kind of a domino thing. It has a BG Demon w/o a choke, so it loads up when started up cold. When I cranked it, it coughed or backfired thru the carb (never does this). Within seconds, it started dropping cylinders and I shut it down. That's when I noticed smoke rolling out he scoop. It turns out that the carbon button on the inside top of the distributor disinigrated causing the spark to run wild under the cap triggering the backfire. S*** happens quick.

[Excaliber]

Carry mine in the trunk.

Really more for looks than practical use.

Yup, yup, that pretty well nails my car.

[Excaliber]

I had an engine fire on my Jaguar V-12. Being as it was an older car and I KNEW it was prone to engine fires I kept TWO extinguishers with me. I even practiced getting them out of the trunk, opening the hood, etc.

Sure enough, the day came! By golly it DID take two. One "almost" did the job, had to bust out #2 to finish it off. Dry chemical, what a mess that was to clean up. Not much damage to the engine/car though.

[Rwillia4]

I have an extingisher mounted on the left side of the driver seat on the floor. Two reasons: first I don't think even a crome fire extingisher is that sexy, second I want anyone to be able to access it without having to reach deep into a car that is on fire. And finally it sits discreetly out of the way from my 3 years olds finger that have left prints everywhere else in my car!!

[COBRANIP]

For me the value of the Halon (fixed) system is, if you are in an accident and injured, you may not be able to exit the car as fast as uninjured and it will buy you a little time (and easy to activate even if injured). If uninjured (and you have time) you have the option to just use a dry chemical bottle. Yeah. Belt and suspenders!

[Ron61]

I don't know about all of the track rules in other places but here you are required to have the plumbed system with nozzles aimed at the carb, inside aimed at the drivers lower foot well and covering his legs, and now at the fuel cell. You can also carry the bottles like I had but without the plumbed system, they won't get past inspection at the track. Also in a wreck on the track the driver is kept away from the car so the safety crews which do have big hand held ones can get to it.

From a street stand point the plumed ones don't really justify the expense in my opinion.

Ron

[dcdoug]

Here are a couple of other options for fire extinguisher mounting. I didn't want it in the way of my elbow or anything else I might want to temporarily put on the center console. Its not like there are many places to put things in the cockpit.....

The extinguisher is the 1.xlbs (forget the exact size, but is the small one) halon.

Doug

[BigRed427]

I used to carry a replacement cost insurance card in my Cobra.
It had to be re-charged every 6 months, but never had to worry about getting burned if there was ever a fire.