When I say "I'm on fire", I'm really trying to say that....

[Uber E30]

atleast it makes a cool sig =]

[Chachi]

well thats completely badass

[Jesse30]

be glad it wasnt the motor.. those arent fun to track down.


hope it isnt anything major man haha

[Boosted_E30M50]

i think you caught fire due to your high speeds...that car runs on kryptonite right? lol

[shiftbmw]

Afterburners are the next Sportmax...

[alpinaclone]

Oh you drifters and your silly theatrics, you'll do anything to impress the judges.




Srsly though, glad it didn't escalate past singed paint.

[Erick]

Sure the fire wasn't from the build up of hot rubber back there?

Doubtful. I would've exploded years ago :p

[Erick]

What about your filler pipe and the actual filler neck? With all that hard sloshing about you must get from getting sideways, I could see fuel getting up in there and getting out through a leak - a leak that might not really be notiacable when you are filling the car.

Possibly. We still couldnt find anything though. The only thing I found is that the light rubber that surrounds the gas inlet is torn. I am not sure if it tore due to the heat, but if it was already torn, perhaps I spilled some gas when filling up the tank prior to the event.

That was our best guess at the end of the day. Which really isn't good enough for me.

We tried going a few more runs afterwards. Kept running the rest of the entire day with no problems whatsoever. No smoke. No fire.

What really confused me is when I started hearing all of these "oh I saw (this/that)" stories from the spectators.

- Erick

[JasonC]

Sure the fire wasn't from the build up of hot rubber back there?

[Dave]

What about your filler pipe and the actual filler neck? With all that hard sloshing about you must get from getting sideways, I could see fuel getting up in there and getting out through a leak - a leak that might not really be notiacable when you are filling the car.

[Erick]

do you still have the charcoal canister hooked up? With those crazy tire temps and ambient temps i could see your fuel tank pressurizing alot and possibly pushing fuel past some seal.

Yes, all of the fuel lines and system is still stock. The only difference from a completely stock system and mine are the injectors and the two wires from the MegaSquirt.

[Erick]

Yep. I looked there. It's behind the cover in the wheel well. No leaks there.

[Dave]

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...07&hg=16&fg=10

expansion tank, bish

[dashboardmonkey]

Tire fire?

Andy

[backtrail69]

do you still have the charcoal canister hooked up? With those crazy tire temps and ambient temps i could see your fuel tank pressurizing alot and possibly pushing fuel past some seal.