Had a small engine fire on engine bay, ID injectors, Rywire harness, fuel lines ,and FFE rails are damaged, luckily between my fire extinguisher and the Palm Beach County Sherriff that was given a ticket to another driver right next to where I pulled up I was able to keep the fire down till the fire dept arrived.

 

Who was taking pictures instead of helping as your car is on fire? . Either way , as bad as it sucks at least your car wasnt a complete loss. Any idea what had started it?

 

All these pictures of engine fires lately *almost* makes me glad mine is currently on jack stands due to spun bearings...

 

Fuel leak, about 3-4 weeks ago my car got a vacumn leak, I changed the LIM and UIM gaskets, and that took care of most of the vacumn leak but still had a ver small vacumn leak thru the injector spacer, so I decide to finally swap my KG rails and injector spacers for the FFE rails and spacers.

In the first attempt to prime the system I found a leak on the secondary rail, took it back out and reinstall and primed the fuel system to 100 psi with no leak. The only thing I noticed is that usually after installing injectors I was able to rotate the injectors, but I wasn't able to do it to the secondaries with the FFE rails, primaries do rotate freely.

 

Fire fighters were really nice, they spray enough water to turn the fire off, they ask me to pull the fuel pump fuse out and to roll up my windows so they can rinse the fire extinguisher chemical of the car.

 

Good thing the damage is not that bad, I think I need to get a fire extinguisher for just in case...

 

+1 I'm buying a small fire extinguisher just in case. I'm sorry to hear about the lost hope you can recover quickly from this...

 

that looks like a nightmare, luckily the fire fighters got it under control before it became a total loss...

 

I bet one of your injector Orings was damaged and you didn't noticed and re installed it..

 

I installed new oring on the injectors, and lube them before inserting it on rails, and then tested the system to 100 psi without leaks.

 

Get a hold of us as soon as you start tearing into it.

 

I know this man personally and he didn't cut any corners on this build. Hopefully he tracks down the issue good Luis, If I can help in any way you have my number bro!

 

I have his contact information if you like to get ahold of them.

 

Having a extinguisher is a must on our cars, I believe that if it wasn't for the extinguisher that I have and the one that the Police officer had the car would had suffer more damage,

I still haven't started taking it apart, as work is keeping me very busy lately.

Still debating if I should get my Insurance involved, don't really want to do that but will need new Harness, Injectors, fuel lines,and Gaskets.

 

It's not worth having the insurance company get involved, especially with aftermarket parts. Try to identify the issue and have a fire extinguisher next time. Even though you have items to replace you made out quite well for an engine bay fire...

 

I have to agree with the previous post. It's going to be less headaches if you pay out of pocket for the parts. You'd have to take the car into an authorized service center for the estimate etc, which means tow bills, time without the car etc.

Your really lucky that it was extinguished. I've seen many car-be-ques not go so well.

 

Man that sucks, sorry for this to happen to you. So many fire threads lately, I carry a fire extinguisher already but I think I might want another one just in case now. The one I have is quite small and I hate to run out of agent before its out.

 

Is it your cameras flash? because it looks like your lights are still on in those pics. Feeding a spark to your fuel fire maybe? Either way sorry to see your car on fire.

 

I've always been so paranoid of this happening to me. My car has been through an engine fire before I owned it, and it was not fun cleaning/salvaging parts. Glad it was caught in time with out destroying the whole engine compartment or the rest of the car

 

Well I left work early because want it to start the tear down, here are some pics, lets see if you guys noticed anything.

 

So for sure I will need new injectors, new Rywire harness ouch only 8-10 months old on this low mile crispy mil spec harness, new fuel lines, new gaskets, new injector spacers, vacumn lines, water temp sensor, fan sensor, probably tps, and haven't tested ECU yet.

 

Man that really sucks. I've been eyeing a rywire harness for a while and I'm still saving to get one. I couldn't imagine watching all of those parts burn.

 

I have a question, what did you use on the threads for the fittings on the fuel system? Teflon Tape? Just curious.

 

No Teflon tape, fitting into rails have oring. The rest of the fittings are A/N

 

Man that sucks.. I remember when my fc had an oil fire, it sucked i didn't have any thing to put it out. I just kept driving it till I got home wasn't fun to fix