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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Once more unto the breach: AE86 round two!
 
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The Royal Nonesuch
Nov 1, 2005

kastein posted:

I strongly recommend the largest fire extinguisher you feel like paying for and carrying.

It is surprising how big a fire gets in a car and how fast it does so. A friend's jeep had a fire in the rear area due to a fuel leak and a wiring issue. They shut it off quickly (killing the fuel pump) but someone still went to the hospital with second degree burns to their feet (they were in a front seat) and it took FORTY of the 2.5/5 pound fire extinguishers to put it out, mostly because theirs was the minimum size that would comply with club rules and it took a minute or two for others to show up with more when it was empty too fast.

My job involves a lot (400+) of fire extinguishers on a large campus and we do yearly training for staff with both ABC/drychem and HALON extinguishers in conjunction with the extinguisher servicing company. Every year the tech tells everyone that he wouldn't even gently caress with a car fire unless he had at least a couple of 10lbs immediately available. Then he lights up a big pan full of gasoline/water and everyone gets to see exactly how difficult it really is to put out a gas fire under ideal circumstances with ten or fifteen 10lbers lined up next to you.

HALON is another story.... those kick rear end, and will knock a small office girl backwards if she doesn't heed advice to lean into it :j: Unfortunately they're also not made anymore/regulated due to environmental reasons; and $130 if you know someone and $100 to refill. I've got a 10lbs ABC in the back of the XJ ever since I swapped the injectors for junkyard Bosch type3s, but next time our guy does the inspection I might poke his truck a bit and see if a HALON falls off the back :ninja:

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