Posted 12 January 2006 - 11:12 PM
Cool topic this one (or should I say 'hot' topic?). Anyway, reminded me of something that happened to me a couple of years back. Long story short : I busted up some of the internal parts in my old dizzy (this is on a 383 chev), in the Easternats burnout comp. Managed to get it going again and started limping the car home (street cars get DRIVEN to events, not trailered!!! haha), but anyway, half way home I swear I could smell something burning. Pulled over once but couldn't see anything unusual, so continued on. Then the light smoke began. The original underfelt was slowly starting to burn, taking the carpet with it, I almost had a huge fire! In my mad panic, I emptied an entire fire extinguisher, and ripped the burning and smouldering underfelt out (and half the carpet) with my bare hands. It kept smouldering and catching again, shocking stuff the original factory underfelt.
Lesson for everyone when replacing underfelt - always use the new fire-retardant stuff (coloured stuff), and ditch the factory crap, just in case!!!
Oh yeah, obviously the cause of this whole drama was the timing was way off, making the car run extremely lean, heating the extractors up red hot, thus heating up the floorpan red hot, thus setting the underfelt on fire!
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