smoke

[benny4x]

on starting the Tuscan on sat.clouds of acrid smoke billowed out from under the bonnet,i was convinced I was on fire!!,but the smoke died down and finally stopped,not daring to try starting again I had it towed to big col.
anyone else experienced anything like this? hasn't been looked at yet.

[B3NNL]

Ahh that was yours Benny!
I dropped mine off yesterday and was having a chat about yours whilst waiting for my lift. He hadnt had a chance to have a proper look at it, but wasnt overly concerned about it, meaning fingers crossed you shouldnt have sleepness nights over the fix!
Anyway, not a huge help, but Col will see you straight and fingers crossed youll be back on the road soon enough without a gaping hole in your wallet!

[benny4x]

fingers crossed, what's up with your beast?

[Basil Brush]

You hadn't parked under a tree had you? I once had a load of leaves fall in through the bonnet gaps on mine and it scared the crap out of me when the exhaust got hot and toasted them.

[nawarne]

Maybe bit of oil on air filter element and coupled with a spit back through throttle body it caught fire?

Acrid smoke being the foam of the air filter?

Just a thought.
Nick

[benny4x]

your very nearly spot on nick!
thanks to colin at tvrsw problems sorted already many thanks to him
the problem was a sticking injector,which flooded the throttle body with petrol and then
caught fire I had a 5" round hole burnt through the air filter,lucky escape I think

[nawarne]

benny4x said:

your very nearly spot on nick!
thanks to colin at tvrsw problems sorted already many thanks to him
the problem was a sticking injector,which flooded the throttle body with petrol and then
caught fire I had a 5" round hole burnt through the air filter,lucky escape I think

Aaah! Guess how I knew! Luckily, I had my bonnet open, and source was fairly obvious. When I took the top off the air box I too had a circular burnt patch adjacent to body No.3 - just the wire mesh of the air filter in that area.
I guess by giving it a blip on the throttle after starting...with 'normal' fuelling, the rush of air effectively 'blew' the fire out.
Nick

[B3NNL]

"Yes officer, it IS nessessary for me to blip the throttle on start up to ensure there are no fires!"

[benny4x]

I well I was in the embarrassing position of right slap bang in front of the doors of a large retail shop,i had pictures of having to evacuate the shop get the cars either side of me to move ect!!! might have made the local paper lol.
I think being in the air box the fire just sort of starved itself of air?

[THREEFISHORANGE]

It seems alot of the speed 6 engines suffer from engine bay fires due to the spitback from the throttle bodies. My old vixen with twin forties used to cough and fart and blow flames out of the inlets. I suppose the speed 6 is pretty close to that set up?

[Sevenman]

From chatting to Jason at Power, a few weeks ago, I understand this to be a reason to check / change the air filter at appropriate intervals. Seemed that someone with a washable / re-oil filter had fire-related problems.