Tom M'Guinn

Very sorry about that, but glad you caught it in time! In addition to better fittings and halon, you might try putting a little cyclosporine in the gas.

refresh951

Glad everything is fine. Bit OT but...Buddy of mine in high school blew a HG on his Camero at Badimere. The car was using N20. Caught the carb on fire. He was running an electric fuel pump wired to a switch in the cabin (why I do not know, coolness I think). Half way down the track car caught on fire. He got out, turned off the key (leaving the direct to battery fuel switch on!). Rubber fuel line burned off, pump dumped fuel into the fire at alarming rate. I witnessed his car burn to the ground. He literally cried for an hour. It was the nicest hot rod at my high school. Fire truck covered the car with stuff and it made the evening news. Amazingly he rebuilt the car and still races the same car today 30 years later.

David Floyd

at Tom ^^^

Sorry to hear Doc, glad the damage was minimal.

V2Rocket

glad you caught it...friend of mine's 944 burned down due to cracked fuel rail the day before we were going to put the LR rail on it...

supes6

Glad you caught it in time.. I had a pretty similar incident with mine, except that I had the correct disconnect fitting and it still popped off. Not sure if I just hadn't pushed it on the whole way or what, but luckily I just spilled some fuel and didn't get any flames. I would say TPC is pretty lucky that you caught it before the car burned down..

reno808

srry to hear. glad no real damage

odurandina

good prep. nice save.

docwyte

Yeah, TPC built my car before they had the new fuel filter kit available, so that line always had a hose clamp on it vs the factory clamp. I'd been chasing a fuel leak for a long time, basically every since I got the car back from TPC. I finally found it was the braided hose that went to the fuel rail, so fuel was leaking on the passenger header for years! I replaced that hose, then yesterday morning it popped off, right before I was about to replace it again with a hose with the proper connector.

Got really lucky in that I had an extinguisher right there in the garage. All I could think about when I saw the flames was that I don't have a stated value policy on the car and if it burns to the ground I'm going to be screwed! First order of business on Monday morning is getting it properly insured...

MarkRobinson

looks (from the first picture) that the fuel line was too short to allow for initial (twisting of the engine upon it's initial ) ignition.

docwyte

Plenty of slack in the line, it just popped off the rail....