Speaking of fires. I thought I had fixed my oil feed leak. Took it for a drives and smoke starts pouring out. Turns out I hadn't. Anyway, long story short, it's dripped a lot of oil over the turbo and some has got into the turbo blanket.
Now I have fixed the leak but it's burning the oil in the turbo blanket and still smoking. Would this render the turbo blanket useless now/don't use it? Or should I wait untill everything is cool and perhap waterblast the oil off?

 

You might need to try cleaning the turbo blanket with a degreaser of some kind. Push comes to shove it might need replacing.

Dale

 

whew just a few more things to be paranoid about. will this car never end with its constant need for attention?!

 

Take all normal sensible precautions. But IMO fires are alot like floods. Don't forget to make sure you have appropriate insurance coverage.
If my car catchs fire and I can't put it out really quick, I'm not going to care how long it takes the Fire Department to respond. Because I'm not going to want the car anymore.

 

My friend who had his FC burn down was in the paper -

http://www.gulfbreezenews.com/news/2..._HOT_RIDE.html

It was a 10th anniversary RX-7, totally gutted the interior.

Dale

 

That would be so depressing!

 

^ Exactly!

I have a full Halon system in my boat, and have often thought about putting something similar in my FD, I have a couple of small extinguishers I keep in the car in the rear compartments, but really...I think that if a fire goes for more than about oh....5 seconds, the car is DONE anyway.

I watched a car fire many years ago in a mall parking lot and the fire was put out very quickly by, of all things, a mall security guard. But man, there wasn't ANYTHING remotely recognizable under the hood as all the plastic crap had melted into one fused ball of ****, wires were burned up...it would have been more hassle than I would have wanted to deal with to try to fix it, for sure.

 

You're looking at this the wrong way. ANY car can burn to the ground if built wrong. All cars come filled with potentially dangerous and flammable liquids that lead to a flambe

Build a car right, and you won't have to worry about such things. I (along with a group of friends) road race our FDs and have zero problems with fires, blown engines, etc.

If you're that worried and paranoid, perhaps consider trading in your car hobby for knitting

 

True, iv seen a brand new crossfire on the side of the road on fire around when they first started coming out, ... never heard of an issue with them catching fire but like fella said any car can burn down if built wrong, even from factory

 

If you smell gas stop driving it! Had a stock turboII back in the day and ignored the fumes and poor mileage. I was at the gas station and saw smoke from under the hood. I ended up putting out the fire with the gas station windshield squeegie bucket. The pulsation dampener screw had backed out.

 

This is great info, I am kinda scared to drive my car now with my leakey rear turbo (I am actualy going to a track day with that) dam it I am buying a fire extinguisher this week. haha........ I only see like a droplet of oil on the housing, hopefully that does'nt cause anything, fingers crossed. hah

 

This is a good but depressing write up Dale. I ordered my cold cans right after reading this!

I did try to go to the cold fire links you provided, but they keep redirecting me to some BS websites.

 

I am glad that I saw this.

Thanks so much for the info.

My car started leaking, and I was not sure on how bad it was.

But I will make sure not to drive it until I get that taken care of.

 

Yeah, not sure what happened to the original links for buying Cold Fire.

Check this out -

http://www.chefscatalog.com/product/..._sku=26274-ONE

Another source for it.

Dale

 

LOL, with the HISTORY of these cars...... Just who is stupid enough NOT to have a fire extinguisher in their car?

jerij

 

Yeah thats the site I order off of actually. Thats pretty cheap insurance if you ask me.

When reading this thread I just pictured myself on the side of the road helpless w/ my engine bay on fire, and cant do a damn thing! Just because I didnt have any cold fire cans or a fire extinguisher. I would rather have a minor burn on my hand opening the hood instead of opening the hood after a fire and looking at everything burnt to the crisp.

Again great thread Dale

 

Ive seen this happen on the track. The car had hood pins. By the time they hook came off the inside was cooked. Could smell the fibergass from the hood burning all the way in the stands.

 

Reading this kinda made me sad thinking about if my FD caught on fire in front of me lol

Gonna go cry now

 

Just had my own experience with my fd catching fire. I WOULD RECOMEND ANYONE DOING A DOUBLE FUELPUMP REMEMBER TO PUT EACH FUELPUMP WITH THERE OWN FUSE AND RELAY.

I did brent fuelpump rewire mod and works great but I did not put one more relay when I Installed a extra fuelpump. almost cost me my fd.

Lukily I was able to put it out.

 

Anyone got a good way to secure these in the car? I have been trying to figure out a good way

 

I wish i saw the thread about the good liner being a fire blanket. Its not. There is one purpose to those exclusively. I'll make this big to help people with bad eye sight.

The purpose of the hood liner is to protect the paint on the hood.

It is in no way designed to be a fire blanket. At all. Period. Mazda did, in no way, intend for their car to catch fire. The hood liner is an insulator from the temperature swings in the engine bay. By protecting the hood from engine operating temperature you make it so that the paint doesnt fade as badly on the hood. Thats why its there. And slightly for noise reduction. The end. They did make it out of a material that doesnt burst into flames. But its not a fire blanket. If it were it would not be rigid.

 

Thank You for the info Dale

 

That looks like a good shop for Canadians too
Just ordered 2 and shipping was only $10

 

Thanks for the much needed reminder, Dale!

Screw the car. Simply having it catch on fire while parked at home in the garage where you or your family lives should really make everyone take this seriously.