WORST night mare FIRE T 350t

[Road Hog]

just returned off hols and thought to get car out for run ,fired up in garage ok .then on restart smoke from under bonnet managed to put out and looks like air box and filter took the worst is there any other plastic melty bits in this area ,and how much is it likley to cost to fix "airbox replace"

[grumbledoak]

Ouch!

Glad you are ok, at least. Any idea how it started?

[bobfather]

Sorry to hear that Andy.

Not uncommon as I understand it. For anyone else that suffers this the trick is to rev it, that sucks the fire out according to Tony Abrams HHC. I saw one do this at a HHC trackday this year

[David Godfrey]

Glad you stopped it there and it did not spread, perhaps as you going to replace it it's time for the ACT carbon fiber version?

[Road Hog]

starting to investigate now ,think backfire on startup and engine didnt fire up.

[Dicky]

had same thing a few weeks ago turned out to be the power steering pump going up in smoke....now that is not cheap!!!!

[jagdpanther]

David Godfrey said:

Glad you stopped it there and it did not spread, perhaps as you going to replace it it's time for the ACT carbon fiber version?

Where theres a cloud and all that


Glad it didnt do too much damage!

What was it? Split fuel line?

[Road Hog]

air filter was due a change, oil on element ,has been a bugger to re start sometimes after initial running ,back fire ignited element managed to blow out .

note to self regular inspection of air filter.

[icraigmy]

Road Hog said:

just returned off hols and thought to get car out for run ,fired up in garage ok .then on restart smoke from under bonnet managed to put out and looks like air box and filter took the worst is there any other plastic melty bits in this area ,and how much is it likley to cost to fix "airbox replace"

I have a spare air box if you want it. Had the ACT Carbon Fibre Air Tight Air box fitted, so have the original one gathering dust in the garage.

[jagdpanther]

Road Hog said:

air filter was due a change, oil on element ,has been a bugger to re start sometimes after initial running ,back fire ignited element managed to blow out .

note to self regular inspection of air filter.

Damn!

Ive not heard that one before