On board fire extinguisher
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:03 am
Been doing a bit of a trawl through the forum for postings about on-board fire extinguisher systems.
Reason being that today I started up the elan after many months, and the floats in the webers must have stayed stuck down in the empty float chambers. Consequently the (electric) fuel pump just kept pumping and pumping at full speed with a flood of petrol coming out of the airbox and onto the distriutor below. Potential nightmare.
It seems from previous postings that time is of the absolute essence when a fire starts under the bonnet, and an extra second or two trying to get a stuck (or melted) bonnet release to free up can add significanly to the damage. Hence my interest in an under-bonnet system.
But whoa those prices! I did find one that looks like it might be reasonable value on demon tweeks http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorspor ... uisher-kit
Does anyone have any experience fitting this sort of system, or another system?
Robert
Reason being that today I started up the elan after many months, and the floats in the webers must have stayed stuck down in the empty float chambers. Consequently the (electric) fuel pump just kept pumping and pumping at full speed with a flood of petrol coming out of the airbox and onto the distriutor below. Potential nightmare.
It seems from previous postings that time is of the absolute essence when a fire starts under the bonnet, and an extra second or two trying to get a stuck (or melted) bonnet release to free up can add significanly to the damage. Hence my interest in an under-bonnet system.
But whoa those prices! I did find one that looks like it might be reasonable value on demon tweeks http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorspor ... uisher-kit
Does anyone have any experience fitting this sort of system, or another system?
Robert