Not the way for a 'Rex to go :(

[turbo-tastic]

www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26313

He must be gutted

Apparently happended on the way to Rotorstock.

>> Edited by turbo-tastic on Monday 29th May 12:54

[tuttle]

Oh that is sooo sad to see really feel for the owner-esp if he's just had some fueling work done. Hope his insurance co is friendly.

[MrFlibbles]

Make sure you have an extinguisher guys!

[mrandy]

poor bloke i feel for him,i saw a load of ricers going north on the m40 sunday morning was this the same meet ?

[turbo-tastic]

mrandy said:

poor bloke i feel for him,i saw a load of ricers going north on the m40 sunday morning was this the same meet ?

Ricers?? Us??? What gave you that idea

Yep, but Rotorstock is more of an event than a meet (although going by yesterday's attendance you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise )

[ApexClipper]

MrFlibbles said:

Make sure you have an extinguisher guys!

By the sounds of things on the Rotaryclub forum, it took the firefighters quite a bit of time to put the fire out.

I think the general consensus is that even if he had a fire extinguisher, it wouldn't have made much difference anyways...

[MrFlibbles]

True enough, but sometimes it might just be enough to nip it in the bud, and stop a small fire, becoming a big fire

[mrandy]

turbo-tastic said:

mrandy said: poor bloke i feel for him,i saw a load of ricers going north on the m40 sunday morning was this the same meet ? Ricers?? Us??? What gave you that idea Yep, but Rotorstock is more of an event than a meet (although going by yesterday's attendance you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise )

Well the erm large groups of rotary powered vehicles certainly looked impressive
I also saw some poor guy in a maser pulled by the plod

[AJI]

not a good sight at all.


There was a statisic I saw a while back which stated that 7 out of 10 car fires are the result of fuel line/fuel pump replacements or modifications. I hope the guy gets his money back through insurance and buys another RX7... they are very nice cars.

[_Batty_]

MrFlibbles said:

Make sure you have an extinguisher guys!

seconded
i've put one in the Alfa already....

[iaint]

AJI said:

I hope the guy gets his money back through insurance and buys another RX7... they are very nice cars.

I'm pretty sure he will. It was an awesome car (one of the loudest evenon tickover) but it's mapping had been limited by lack of fuel - he was now running a huge (from memory).

From personal experience it's easy for people woho really know what they're doing to get things wrong but fuelling should be double and triple checked. When I had mine uprated one of the existing pieces of fuel line was re-used and a combination of being disturbed and the extra pressure was enough to allow a high pressure jet of fuel squirt all over a warm part of the engine. Fortunately warm enough to cause a lot of petrol smoke but not quite hot enough to cause flames.

In Blitzboy's case though a small in-car extinguisher would not be likely to have saved the day - I got the impression it was all too sudden.

Really gutted for him as he's a nice bloke too.