I couldn't resist the thread title So my bro got a real bad oil leak on his turbo tc, the oil feed fitting coming off the head had a crack in the thread of the fitting. Took us forever to find the leak, and actually we didn't realize it untill we smelled oil cooking on the header, there was oil all over the engine and hoodliner. Lucky it didn't start a fire, as a result we put this in the car. I recommend it, plenty of buring turbo car videos on youtube

 

lol have the exact same thing in my trunk...not for turbo tho. the subs in my last car caught my whole trunk on fire so now i'm paranoid

 

i need one myself!

I had a fuel line blow off my secondary fuel pump once.. spewing gas all over my 3" turbo back!


I got out of the car and started pushing it away from the puddle of gas!

Its not fun!

 

lol, got me on the title!

as long as you dont have the fire extinguisher strapped on the A pillar, then im all for it! lol

 

Lol that would look fugly on the apillar, its a pretty big one, those little dinky civic ones won't help you at all, 1 shot and your out of powder or halon.

 

my boy has one mounted on the side of the console on the pass. side...reachable and ready to go, its kinda big though but not huge.

 

i think this is a must for boosted tc's, or any boosted car for that matter!

i dont know how many, but i think there have been at least 5 boosted tc's gone up in flames!

 

^^word!!!

 

you should get a bigger one though, fuel isnt cant easily be put out by a 15lbs extinguisher.. Oh those chemicals are bad for the engine components too, i was looking at a flame retardant system for cars and it was too pricey lol

 

the chemicals might cause some damage to your engine components, but it beats having the whole car go up in flames! lol

then again, i dont know if i would be comfortable fixing my car after it had caught semi-fire, lol

i would just sit back, open a bag of popcorn, watch the fireworks, and let my insurance buy me a new car, lol

 

yeah I might just hope it be totalled and insurance will cover it so I can get a new car, than rebuilding a semi burnt car. But anything than can save your expensive electronics will be useful.

 

Geez man that title!

 

^i know right!!

he got me too!

 

geeze!!! this title got alot of us!!! lol


i got all excited!! then ...................... bam! lol

 

I'm not exactly sure that little fire extingusher would put out that kind of fire... I have a small fire extingusher in my car, but I doubt it will do much in an actual fire if I'm later than 15 seconds than getting to the start of the fire.

 

^true

Does anybody think that your insurance might try to use this against you? maybe say that you were expecting a fire to happen?

 

no just say you are/were a boyscout and you're always prepared!! ^^

 

Yeah ive been meaning to get one in case something would ever happen. I want one of the halon under hood systems - but theyre quite expensive - like ~$450-500. Also that MIGHT freak any passengers a bit seeing a pull switch labeled "Pull Fire" on it in my center console lol

 

those systems are awesome though, refillable and they leave no residue or anything. Halon gas kills all the oxygen in the air and thats it, definetly worth it if your doing acutal racing on the track.

 

I think it would be better if you put it somewhere so that you could reach it. If ur driving and you motor goes up it would suck to have to run out of the car, open the hatch and run back to the hood. Plus, if the battery goes up or the terminal breaks you cant open the trunk.

But i guess it's better than nothing.