Its high time I get one of these. Is yours the MX250B? http://www.h3rperformance.com/mx250b.htm

I had a lucky close call a few months back when my fuel line ruptured coming from my Comptech RRFPR. I was extremely lucky that it happened only about two minutes after a cold start and that nothing made its way over to the header.

The pictures are astounding, how quickly and completely cars can burn. I may grab one of these smaller ones for the passenger floor, and a larger size for the trunk as well.

 

do you guys think the 2.5lb or 5lb will be sufficient? i'm thinking this one will be good, since it's also rechargable:
http://www.h3rperformance.com/hg500b.htm

 

While the Halotron agent is enticing because it won't leave any residue after use like the dry chemical agent one would, look at the difference in ratings.

2.5lb Dry Chemical - 1A:10B:C
2.5lb Halotron - 2B:C

5lb Dry Chemical - 3A:40B:C
5lb Halotron - 5B:C

So for the 2.5lb bottles, the Dry Chem has a 10B rating, while the Halotron has only a 2B. That means that the Dry Chem could extinguish up to 5 times as much fire as the Halotron of the same size/weight. For the 5lb bottles the spread is even more... Dry Chem is rated at 40B while Halotron is only rated at 5B... so Dry Chem could extinguish up to 8 times as much fire as the Halotron.

The 2.5lb Dry Chem could extinguish a fire twice the size as one that the 5lb Halotron could extinguish. Smaller bottle, but handles a bigger fire. I don't care if I get yellow powder all up in my car... if its better at putting out the fire then that's the one I want.

Also - the dry chems are rechargeable as well.

 

Yup, that's the one.

 

saw this on instagram, so sad, was such a beast of a vette, massive 90 trim turbo up front

 

get as much fire extinguishing power as possible. either way after a fire you are gonna have a lot to clean up so you might as well get the best you can buy. Here are before and after pics of my small fire. This fire only burned for maybe 30 seconds but it seemed like an eternity









After the engine got pulled found out that the entire steering rack was destroyed and of course the wire harness was destroyed, basically everything in the engine bay had to be replaced. It honestly didnt look that bad but just about everything under the hood had to be replaced. The heat from the fire even damaged my aem ems, and a few other things in the dash. Be careful everyone because once these fires get going they are extremely hard to put out.

 

how about a fire suppression system that has nozzles in engine bay? has anyone done it on their s? doing more and more research, it seems like it'd be better to fight engine fires. Also plan to have a 2.5 or 5lb portable extinguisher either in the cabin or in the trunk.

 

i just wouldnt wish this on anyone you know?

 

will be buying an extinguisher today!! so sorry to see that,

 

I've got a smaller one in my trunk. I always figured it would be enough, not so sure now.

What was the cause of all these fires?