Anyone have a Fire Bottle in your car

[Endangered Species]

We had a close call at Beaver Springs this year when the float broke on the left carb and spewed fuel all over the drivers side of the engine compartment. If it would have happen to the right side we would have had a fire for sure because the distributor being on that side.

Never the less we decided to buy a fire bottle for the car just in case. Does anyone one else run a fire bottle and if so can you post pictures of how you ran the nozzles? I would like to run three nozzles, one on each side of the engine bay and one in the car under the dash. OR can I get away with one nozzle in the engine compartment and one in the car?
The kit only comes with 10' of line and one T and 3 nozzles.

Thanks

Kevin

 

[Budnicks]

I had a Simpson Safety Systems Halon fire bottles on a few cars sorry no photos I had only 3 in open cars 1 at the drivers compartment & 2 at the engine 1 in front & 1 in back centered & I would use 4 nozzles in an inclosed car, 1 in the trunk for batt.s & fuel, 1 in the interior pointing at the driver, centered under the column, 1 on either side if the engine, it's halon so point them at the engine top 1 towards the rear 1 towards the front "generally" the halon will take the oxygen away & snuff the fire out... you should be able to get more nozzles & fittings if you feel the need for more coverage...

 

[Endangered Species]

Thanks Budnick. I was laying out the tubing today. They only gave me 10' of tubing so I'm going to be limited to how many and how far I run the nozzles.
Ok, so you're saying I should have one nozzle in the font of the engine bay and one in the back. I may have to re think this then, when I was laying everything out today, I was going to run one nozzle on the passenger side and one on the drivers side both back by the fire wall. (Again I'm limited with my tubing right now). Maybe I'll plumb it this way for now, and in the mean time get more tubing so I can run the one to the drivers side front (by the core support) and leave the other one back in the corner of the fire wall and inner fender. This would fog the entire fuel system and the one in the front will hit the front of the engine, plus I'll be able to do the interior and trunk also.

What do you think?

 

[383man]

I keep one under the front seat of my 63 which is a street car but I saw a car burn up before when the guy did not have one. Makes think real hard about having one. Ron

 

[Endangered Species]

I keep one under the front seat of my 63 which is a street car but I saw a car burn up before when the guy did not have one. Makes think real hard about having one. Ron

We have a standard extinguisher in the car also but after the float broke in mid run dad realized that it would have caught fire by the time he gets out of the car and get all the hood pins out and get the hood off, the car would be toast. This way you just pull the pin then pull the cable and the fire is hopefully out or slowed down enough to get the hood off and hit it with the hand held extinguisher. I don't remember what we paid for it; it was like $400.00 at Summit.

 

[Budnicks]

Thanks Budnick. I was laying out the tubing today. They only gave me 10' of tubing so I'm going to be limited to how many and how far I run the nozzles.
Ok, so you're saying I should have one nozzle in the font of the engine bay and one in the back. I may have to re think this then, when I was laying everything out today, I was going to run one nozzle on the passenger side and one on the drivers side both back by the fire wall. (Again I'm limited with my tubing right now). Maybe I'll plumb it this way for now, and in the mean time get more tubing so I can run the one to the drivers side front (by the core support) and leave the other one back in the corner of the fire wall and inner fender. This would fog the entire fuel system and the one in the front will hit the front of the engine, plus I'll be able to do the interior and trunk also.

What do you think?

Belvedere , you could do 1 on each side on the fire wall or 1 on either side of the engine on the inner fenders, I figured the way that I did it the front & rear on the "open cars" (Altered/Dragsters) would be covered engine more evenly, in the inclosed cars I had 1 on either side of the engine is what I did, I don't know if it makes a big difference or not, just my logic, that's the way I had done all my race cars , it's probably overkill like most everything I tend to do....

 

[1toolguy]

The Cordoba's console is just big enough for the 2-pound dry-chem extinguisher I keep in it.

 

[Endangered Species]

I only had enough tubing to run the tubing to the passenger fire wall/innerfender corner. That took over 7 feet of tubing because I have the bottle mounted behind the passenger side seat. I'll have to get more and finish it later there's only two races to go this year.

Thanks for all your in put!