NSW Corvettes

Technical Tips => Post 84 => Topic started by: Brutus on January 18, 2003, 07:41:25 PM

Title: This is not pretty.
Post by: Brutus on January 18, 2003, 07:41:25 PM

Don't let this happen to you.
http://www.c3sharktank.com/store/fire1.jpg

Title: This is not pretty.
Post by: rebel on January 21, 2003, 03:42:36 PM

fuel line ignited or turbo overheated .... ?

Title: This is not pretty.
Post by: 77CVT on January 21, 2003, 03:53:09 PM

Ouch! :(

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Post by: Brutus on January 22, 2003, 09:13:57 AM

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Originally posted by rebel
fuel line ignited or turbo overheated .... ?

I don't think there was a turbo in this car. I do find it strange tho that there was just that one isolated hole in the one inlet runner and not the others. Makes you wonder if that could have been the seat of the problem.

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Post by: rebel on January 22, 2003, 01:18:03 PM

yep, that's what got me thinking ...

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Post by: Adam on January 22, 2003, 10:10:27 PM

Ah, now see, you need heatsinks and fans for those fancy cpu's...

Adam

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Post by: rebel on January 23, 2003, 01:21:44 PM

what, you mean like a 4 fin, 8 spoke steel plate with an 8 and 3/4 thread earth shunt bolt to the motherboard ... ?

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Post by: Adam on January 23, 2003, 08:18:44 PM

Judging by that photo, it would need an intercooler and bonnet scoop to cool it down.

If u see bonnet scoops on the c6 u kno its only for the electronics.

Adam

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Post by: Vette Obsessed on February 05, 2003, 09:59:41 PM

I don't know about the hole on the inlet runner (I can see it).  I would guess something along the lines of a fuel line letting go.  You can see the hard lines running on the right hand side of the engine (left side of the car).  At  the end of the hard line there is a short section of soft line.  Maybe that let go and leaked onto the right hand side exhaust header.

Then again I could be totally wrong. :b2