I've had an extinguisher in my car ever since I seen a nice early model 300zx driving down the road with flames spitting out the bottom of the engine bay, the driver had no idea his car was on fire, I did a quick u-bolt to chase him down and get him to pullover. In this time the fire had really started to get a good grip on the engine bay, when he pulled up he quickly went to pop the bonnet and I then had to stop him real quick because that would finished the car as none of us that had stopped had extinguishers in the car. Lucky for him a work place across the road had seen what was going on and one of the workers ran a chemical extinguisher to us, we managed to save the car but not the engine bay. Common problem with the 300zx is injector leaks causing fires and the fact they are turbos just creates a very hot enviroment prime for a fire, since then have always carried an extinguisher setup in the boot ready to go for any fire situation.
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Frosty and FPR - Bathurst winners 2013
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