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Old 11-08-2011, 07:30 PM
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Default Small Issue @ Brands Hatch last night......
Had an awesome track session @ brands last night and a few fellow P1 owners joined me and came to watch Clive ( skullfudge being one of them).

The last 20mins of the session and coming hard into clearways the powersteering gave in sent me off the track luckily I kept in straight and then smoke started coming from the engine bay. I limped into the pits and popped the bonnet while still rolling, a few by standers were shouting fire fire and yes the P/S hose from the reloastion kit had popped off squirting P/S fluid onto my headers and into my undertray igniting it.... anyways big flames and lots of dry powder later.

Here are the pics and so today I had the clean up operation so before and after piccys.

No harm done just a ruined undertray, fookin lucky as.

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Old 11-08-2011, 08:01 PM
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Now that was lucky. Fortunate there were extinguishers around. Glad the car is ok!
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Old 11-08-2011, 08:21 PM
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Love your P1, blood y glad it's still in one piece mate
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Old 11-08-2011, 08:28 PM
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share crowmans thoughts glad its not too bad
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Old 11-08-2011, 08:30 PM
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very lucky as PS fluid is extremely flammable..................

how did the power steering pipe detach itself??
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Old 11-08-2011, 08:59 PM
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What a relief,

So glad you didn't sustain loads of damage.


Still it was about time it had a good clean.
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Old 11-08-2011, 09:14 PM
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Phew, my heart sank when I saw that first picture, but glad to see its shiny again by picture four!
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Old 11-08-2011, 09:52 PM
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Close call!!!
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Old 11-08-2011, 10:06 PM
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wow, very lucky the fire didn't fry any of the wiring or electrics.

great job cleaning it up too
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Old 11-08-2011, 10:22 PM
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Very lucky..cleaned up a trat from the 1st picture, glad you and the car are fine tho could of been nasty.
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Old 11-08-2011, 10:36 PM
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Brilliant news that both you and the car escaped virtually unscathed.

Great to see it looking absolutely mint again today
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Old 12-08-2011, 12:02 PM
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Cheers guys, was proper lucky all the wires and wiring are fine the sheathing had melted but I cut it back yesterday checked all the wires and have now used fire proof sleeving over the loom that runs closest to the headers. In the winter the cars being re-wired anyways so no biggy.

The return pipe just popped off as it's a push on fitting not a -an fitting like the feed pipe at the bottom.
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Old 12-08-2011, 12:03 PM
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What a relief,

So glad you didn't sustain loads of damage.


Still it was about time it had a good clean.
LOL cheeky bugger
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Old 12-08-2011, 12:25 PM
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Lucky escape there then mate, glad it wasn't too bad and cleaned up well.

Power Steering fluid and wrapped headers are not a good idea IMHO (not sure if yours are wrapped). Any small leak gets soaked up by the header wrapping and creates too many oppurtunities for fire. seen it many times before.
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Old 12-08-2011, 02:57 PM
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Can't believe you got away with that
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Old 12-08-2011, 04:37 PM
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Close call buddy, glad all is ok... Last year December my engine bay caught a light after my oil feed pipe to the turbo split and oil dripped onto my wraped turbo up pipe and causght a light, burnt a few wires and my 3 port boost solenoid, luckly there was a lot of snow around otherwise it probibly would of been good by scoob...

Beautiful looking P1 by the way...
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Old 12-08-2011, 04:51 PM
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Lucky escape there then mate, glad it wasn't too bad and cleaned up well.

Power Steering fluid and wrapped headers are not a good idea IMHO (not sure if yours are wrapped). Any small leak gets soaked up by the header wrapping and creates too many oppurtunities for fire. seen it many times before.
They are ceramic coated fella but even then they get hot it was the undertray that soaked it all up and caught fire bloody thing, going to invest in a nice ali one or rally style one me thinks.

I was silly lucky it happened where it did, I was more worried when I went into a corner at about 90mhp and got sling shotted the other way lol.... brown pants moment for sure.
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Old 12-08-2011, 04:51 PM
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Close call buddy, glad all is ok... Last year December my engine bay caught a light after my oil feed pipe to the turbo split and oil dripped onto my wraped turbo up pipe and causght a light, burnt a few wires and my 3 port boost solenoid, luckly there was a lot of snow around otherwise it probibly would of been good by scoob...

Beautiful looking P1 by the way...
cheers mate Ill get some pics up of the track day later aswel
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mate just think if that happen when we was going round the ring
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