First day driving hard...

[BECKSTER]

This breaks my heart, I hope you stay in the e30 game.

[roguetoaster]

Just yesterday Mighty Car Mods did a video on how to install a fire extinguisher, timely.

Hope you can get some of the money back from the car & hope it had comp coverage!

[e30onBBSs]

First day driving hard...

Time to revisit installing an extinguisher in mine, I have a really nice Amerex 2.5lb with an auto/marine bracket from my last car just sitting here. Could never come up with a good place to mount it.

Do it dude I bought one and idk why I didn't throw it in there before hand.

It's one of those things I never thought would just happen. And boom within 10 minutes all of the time at work I spent to save for the car, all the time working on it, all the time shagging parts, gone. The $, gone. I've been handling it well I think then it gets me and it just hurts emotionally so so so so bad. It's this crushing feeling of sadness and dissapointment and frustration and disbelief and it's just tearing me apart. Idk about you guys but the e30 was my anchor. It was my drive (no pun intended). "Well shit I need to put the new dif in it, it's time to get out of bed!" Even though working on it sucked sometimes, life is going to be considerably worse without a car to wrench on. I don't even know what to do about it. I have no hobby now.

shit is sappy but the truth. There are always other cars but considering how much time we dedicate to them it would be dumb (use me as an example) to not have a fire extinguisher in the car.

[Reichart12]

Wow man that's rough. I absolutely understand how youre feeling about the work put in and how much of a release a nice car can be. Most people here would probably agree. Glad you got out before anything worse could have happened to you.

[rcsoundn1]

sad day man, sorry for what happened GL, and part it out or just sell it.

[jhaurimn]

I am sorry for your loss. :(

[djjerme]

How far back did the fire get in the engine compartment. If it just stayed near the front, you may be able to just cut out the affected sheet metal and get the car back together..

[e30onBBSs]

First day driving hard...

Thanks for the kind words bros =)

How far back did the fire get in the engine compartment. If it just stayed near the front, you may be able to just cut out the affected sheet metal and get the car back together..

And it didn't go so far back but it definitely went through the passenger side battery tray a bit or through the fire wall.

I don't have space to pull an engine or anything and I don't know how to weld and my parents might move soon so I don't think I'm going to/ be able to pursue the car anymore

[Kershaw]

That happened to me too man, it sucks. Sorry it happened.

[IceWhite]

This sucks, sorry for your loss.

[e30onBBSs]

That happened to me too man, it sucks. Sorry it happened.

Damn dude what are the chances! Was your car done for or did you get it put out?

[Cephas]

Terrible to see. Sorry for your loss.

[Kershaw]

Damn dude what are the chances! Was your car done for or did you get it put out?

A fire truck was actually sitting 150 feet from where I parked, but it flared up too fast to save the car. The suspension I retained and is on my current ix. The rest of the car was parted out.

It COULD have been saved, but I wasn't about to rewire the whole engine bay. The fire was pretty contained to the front of the engine. Even the transmission was parted out and lived on in another car.

[agent]

Damn dude, sorry. :(

[ThatOneEuroE30]

man that sucks sorry to hear about it