burgy_51_ Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Gutted for you mate, cant beleve the pictures, you must ove been rageing seeing ure car like that and you cant do anything to stop it mate! keep ure chin up bud! Link to comment
cullenmin Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 All the best with your insurance Jimser, still can't believe them pictures. Rich Link to comment
thefastone Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Jim, Wow, I dont know what to say, Graeme told me about this yesterday, and Ive not even read the whole thread yet, as I'm at work just now, but wow, I'm speechless man... Totally gutted for you... I just hope that somewhere out of this there comes a happy ending... Link to comment
Maxxed_Ross Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 holy "£$%! Totally gutted for you mate That's literally 1 mile from my house too. Hope you get a decent pay out for it so you can build another Link to comment
empty_heed Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 i'm all goose bumps from reading bout your flaming incident glad your ok & hope your back soon making us all look slow. Link to comment
col666 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 What a nightmare, even worse having to watch it die like that. Link to comment
JohnSt Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Where is the car now Jim ? ---john--- Link to comment
t3hWIT Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 ****ing hell, that's a shame. Link to comment
jimser Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Where is the car now Jim ?---john--- cars at burgoynes in airth john neils going to try and nip in tomorrow and see if theres any obvious signs of cause i.e hole in block Link to comment
colin_ross Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 neils going to try and nip in tomorrow and see if theres any obvious signs of cause i.e hole in block if it wasn't for your "almighty bang" comment I'd have bet on it being a popped fuel hose. I had the same happen to me at a central meet after not flaring my fuel pipes after a par fuel rail mod. I had a trail of petrol a foot wide behind the car and when I pulled into the subaru dealers in falkirk (can't remember the name) I has plumes of what looked like white smoke coming out of my scoop and vents. Turns out it was petrol vapour after I'd soaked my headers, turbo etc. I was lucky and things could have went very different. Be careful out there people. Link to comment
cullenmin Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I had the same happen to me at a central meet after not flaring my fuel pipes after a par fuel rail mod. What does this mean? I may be going for fuel rail modifications sometime in the future so any info much appreciated Cheers Rich Link to comment
StrikE Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Wow just seen this, hope everyone was ok Link to comment
the squiggle Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 What does this mean? I may be going for fuel rail modifications sometime in the future so any info much appreciated Cheers Rich Changing the routing of the pipework so that the fuel flows in parallel instead of in the factory design which feeds the injectors in series. This involves some butchery of the std pipework to make this mod and once the pipework is cut it needs reflared to allow the jubilee clip to get a good grip/seal Coulty's incident comes to mind at Charing Cross Anyone with anything non std in the fuel system should have it checked by an appropriate engineer Only the brave went into to check Playsatans car at Falkirk when it developed a small puddle Link to comment
cullenmin Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Changing the routing of the pipework so that the fuel flows in parallel instead of in the factory design which feeds the injectors in series. This involves some butchery of the std pipework to make this mod and once the pipework is cut it needs reflared to allow the jubilee clip to get a good grip/sealCoulty's incident comes to mind at Charing Cross Anyone with anything non std in the fuel system should have it checked by an appropriate engineer Only the brave went into to check Playsatans car at Falkirk when it developed a small puddle Cheers Grant, it was the reflaring of the pipes I was querying, got an explination from paul555sti so cheers lads. Link to comment
st3ph3n Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Only the brave went into to check Playsatans car at Falkirk when it developed a small puddle <--- The mug that parked next to him! I moved it rather sharpish though! Link to comment
colin_ross Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I moved it rather sharpish though! Yup, it reminded me of one of my crail launches. I realise I'll never be that lucky again so when it comes to fuel now I pack 2 extinguishers and only use top of the line components in my fuel system. Oh yes, and Coulty isn't allowed near it. Link to comment
johnnyr6 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Changing the routing of the pipework so that the fuel flows in parallel instead of in the factory design which feeds the injectors in series. This involves some butchery of the std pipework to make this mod and once the pipework is cut it needs reflared to allow the jubilee clip to get a good grip/sealCoulty's incident comes to mind at Charing Cross Anyone with anything non std in the fuel system should have it checked by an appropriate engineer Only the brave went into to check Playsatans car at Falkirk when it developed a small puddle Coulty's wasn't due to not flaring the pipes. One of his fuel pipes burst. Johnny Link to comment
Litchfieldtype25 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Sorry bout what happened mate but at the end of the day your still here Link to comment
jimser Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 neil went and had a look yesterday and pretty much as expected theres a hole in the block at no.3. Link to comment
Maxxed_Ross Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 well at least you know where the limits are now.... expensive way to find out right enough! Link to comment
mrbadger Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Noooooooooooooo I never managed to sample it's delights, but I saw plenty of wet stained trousers of passengers coming out. Sad day, sorry to see the pictures mate.... Link to comment
Spaceman Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Least you know now jim still a bugger tho onwards and upwards Link to comment
cullenmin Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 500bhp on a standard block!boom boom Tempting fate there then maybe Link to comment
jimser Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 500bhp on a standard block!boom boomTempting fate there then maybe not really sure what your point is mate? the car was deemed as safe when mapped and i didn't set out intentionally to push the car to an unsafe limit in any way. Link to comment
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