nuvolari612

Smokey I am not a fan of unbolted objects in a car - let alone one that can go 200 mph

Insurance companies are fine paying a claim on burnt metal - paying a claim on flying FE's that busted someones melon ... negligence.

Double tape some marshmallows and it's a win win.

ByeEnzo

nuvolari612

Wow.

The first super car ever built - was not a fan of Lamborghini until the SV and now I can not get enough of the brand.

porsche0nut

fair 'nuff! Our local PCA events require them.... so you put one in. Maybe they get kickbacks on fire extinguisher sales

WOW is right. That is stunning.

mooty

I love PCA
but lately I found they have become more and more politically driven and many ppl have "agenda" there.
I don't want to waste the bandwidth here.
requiring FE the tiny little one, provides a false sense of security.
I have seen ppl mount the on roll. bars, which they cannot reach.
I have seen ppl mount them in front of passenger seat. go home and. try this.
drive to your driveway, stop car, unbuckle and get the bottle to your gloved hands and pull the pin, you will be VERY SURPRISED how long that will take you. and I wager to say 50% of the drivers are too big and inflexible to reach the bottle. and when you realized you can't get the bottle out... your are likely on fire now. I have cars burnt. most do not. GET THE FK OUT, things happen FAST.

FLGT

This - get out fast. They are really only for looks

smokeygt

Nuvo, I guess I'm paranoid. Not all fires start out as infernos. I've been involved around several fires, some mine, some others. All put out except the first one that put the fear in me. I just want the option to have an extinguisher if it's possible to reach. Insurance reimbursement doesn't enter my mind. I think these machines are too precious to loose. No amount of money will bring one back. I'm recalling Darryl Greenamyer and the B29 he and his team rescued from Greenland. Only to be undone by something unbolted and the the extinguishers mounted out of reach behind the fire. Heartbreaking.

Marshmallows? I'm thinking more like along the lines of kielbasa.

An old man told me once that a smart man learns from his mistakes, but a truly smart man learns from other's mistakes. I must be an idiot, because I keep doing the same damn dumb things over and over. I reckon carrying an extinguisher is not one of them.

mooty

^ I get it. BUT we must agree that if one wants a FE, get a real FE. the "baby" bottles I see so often in these cars do nothing. now if you have a real FE bottle then certainly

not that street cars should or need a plumbed system. but in a race car, you don't see FE bottles.
I don't want cars to burn, when I get out, I pull the FE switch and lots of halon or whatever comes out and kills fire.

if one wants a FE in car, get one that works such that one does not have a FALSE sense of security.
b/c in emergency, we all get confused and starts to do things that are just dumb.
thus let's prep it right BEFORE the disaster.

now if the FE is just for "looks" I agree the little bottle with laser cut mounts are beautiful. I know be I had many of them in my GT3's

nuvolari612

It's nice that you love your cars but they do not love back so it's just about the money as an object is replaceable.

Own 100's of FE and assure you they are not reliable and the operator must be trained preferably in a fire suit.

You have to be 4-6 feet to address the fire ... as you stated they do not start out as inferno's so you have no idea where the next ignition is or how large.

Car fires are 10x worse than grease fires.

Wise man told me if you would not do something twice do not do it once.

Give you credit but IMO fighting a fire does not outweigh the risk.