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<blockquote data-quote="patooyee" data-source="post: 262294" data-attributes="member: 483"><p>Am I the JJ you speak of?</p><p></p><p>Ever since the thread on Pirate about Doc's rig burning to the ground at KOH I've had a paranoid fear of my rig doing the same. (I think mainly because he seems like such a nice, level-headed guy and his rig was just so perfect in my eyes. Also because he wouldn't have got out if someone hadn't been nearby with a sharp knife.) I mean that literally, I have woke up some nights after having nightmares. The original plan was to ride my wife in my rig (which I don't do anymore) and the thought of possibly listening to her burn to death in a rig that I built and couldn't save her from would not be something I could live with. (Literally, I think I would commit suicide.) Yet I can not afford the $1000+ systems that some can, which really are only good for spraying the places that you aim them at during the build. (What if a fire starts somewhere else?) So I got 3 Halon hand-held extinguishers and mounted them in plain sight. Two are on the passenger side, one by their feet, another on the dash board where a spectator can easily reach in. The third is by my feet attached to two nozzles that spray the engine compartment, particularly the exhaust areas. It doesn't even have to come out of its mount to work, I simply pull the pin and squeeze the trigger and the engine compartment gets doused.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.summitracing.com/parts/saf-54-1416/overview/" target="_blank">http://www.summitracing.com/parts/saf-54-1416/overview/</a></p><p></p><p>These are simply mounted to a -an bulkhead on two corners of my firewall with braided stainless line going from the nozzle on the extinguisher to the bulkhead fittings. Its not quite as nice as the pre-built systems but better than nothing. I got the idea from my shop-mate, Mark, who used to be an airplane mechanic. He says some planes used similar systems since its not like the driver can exit the vehicle to manually extinguish an engine fire at 3000+ feet.</p><p></p><p>Right now I am using the mounts that came with the extinguishers but they are kind of cheesy. I've seen ton's like Jduck's but they all look like they would rattle to me, do they not??? That's one thing I do like about the stock cheesy ones, they do not rattle at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patooyee, post: 262294, member: 483"] Am I the JJ you speak of? Ever since the thread on Pirate about Doc's rig burning to the ground at KOH I've had a paranoid fear of my rig doing the same. (I think mainly because he seems like such a nice, level-headed guy and his rig was just so perfect in my eyes. Also because he wouldn't have got out if someone hadn't been nearby with a sharp knife.) I mean that literally, I have woke up some nights after having nightmares. The original plan was to ride my wife in my rig (which I don't do anymore) and the thought of possibly listening to her burn to death in a rig that I built and couldn't save her from would not be something I could live with. (Literally, I think I would commit suicide.) Yet I can not afford the $1000+ systems that some can, which really are only good for spraying the places that you aim them at during the build. (What if a fire starts somewhere else?) So I got 3 Halon hand-held extinguishers and mounted them in plain sight. Two are on the passenger side, one by their feet, another on the dash board where a spectator can easily reach in. The third is by my feet attached to two nozzles that spray the engine compartment, particularly the exhaust areas. It doesn't even have to come out of its mount to work, I simply pull the pin and squeeze the trigger and the engine compartment gets doused. [url=http://www.summitracing.com/parts/saf-54-1416/overview/]http://www.summitracing.com/parts/saf-54-1416/overview/[/url] These are simply mounted to a -an bulkhead on two corners of my firewall with braided stainless line going from the nozzle on the extinguisher to the bulkhead fittings. Its not quite as nice as the pre-built systems but better than nothing. I got the idea from my shop-mate, Mark, who used to be an airplane mechanic. He says some planes used similar systems since its not like the driver can exit the vehicle to manually extinguish an engine fire at 3000+ feet. Right now I am using the mounts that came with the extinguishers but they are kind of cheesy. I've seen ton's like Jduck's but they all look like they would rattle to me, do they not??? That's one thing I do like about the stock cheesy ones, they do not rattle at all. [/QUOTE]
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