Cobra crash at 101 and 46

[Luce]

It's always heartbreaking to read one of these stories.

I hear a lot of talk about having a knife to cut the harness and fire extinguishers to put out a fire, but even more import, how many of you with electric fuel pumps have some automated system that shuts them off in the event of an accident or engine stalling? I can see his holley red pumping 75 gallons an hour onto the flames under the hood.

Megasquirt kills the electric fuel pump 2 seconds after the crank stops. That's my saftey feature.

I spent countless hours trying to have everything possible fail safe like an OEM car, and a toggle switch turning the fuel pump on is suicide. That's what ended my dad's Austin Healey back in the early 70's I was a 5 year old tot in his pajamas with his dad under an overpass watching our car burn to the ground as the fuel pump happily poured all 10 gallons on the exhaust manifold. Luckily, it wasn't an accident rendering us incapacitated. Just a leaky fuel line.