Pit stop fire extinguisher
Discussion
Dry powder will knock down flames quickly, but is not the best for engines.
foam will "seal" a fire but is not as good at knocking flames down.
CO2 will work well in engine bays etc not so well in an open environment.
Monnex (Specialist dry powder) is perhaps the most efficient ,but also the most expensive.
Non of these will be effective if the person using them doesn't know how to use them.
foam will "seal" a fire but is not as good at knocking flames down.
CO2 will work well in engine bays etc not so well in an open environment.
Monnex (Specialist dry powder) is perhaps the most efficient ,but also the most expensive.
Non of these will be effective if the person using them doesn't know how to use them.
If it's Enduro you're looking at pretty much anything goes in terms of what they will allow but fuelling with TufJugs does carry a risk of splashing etc so I'd get something that will do the job should you need it.
A fire blanket is also a decent idea if you are fuelling near hot brakes of exhaust.
A fire blanket is also a decent idea if you are fuelling near hot brakes of exhaust.
Thanks for the replies
Yes is club enduro, really looking forward to it after doing a couple of rounds last year.
Fire blanket seams like a good idea to have to hand as well as an extinguisher, hadn’t really thought about that.
Given that we’ll still have the in car system if the engine side of things goes wrong it sounds like a dry powder would be sensible.
Yes is club enduro, really looking forward to it after doing a couple of rounds last year.
Fire blanket seams like a good idea to have to hand as well as an extinguisher, hadn’t really thought about that.
Given that we’ll still have the in car system if the engine side of things goes wrong it sounds like a dry powder would be sensible.
Last year I did Spa and Snetterton in an orange E36 M3. for many reasons we weren't all that quick, not least I don't really like driving other peoples cars especially when they're as clean as Edwards M3.
It did seam like a nice series, not quite as intense as the 15 minute sprint races I'm used to.
We'll be using an E36 318is in class C, we're currently a long way off the 180bhp / ton but there seamed to be a few compact cup cars out last year so hopefully we wont be in the way.
Cams have been ordered to find a bit more power and if time allows I think we can get another 30-50kg's out of the car (and ideally a good few off of me as well, although that might be harder), every little helps
It did seam like a nice series, not quite as intense as the 15 minute sprint races I'm used to.
We'll be using an E36 318is in class C, we're currently a long way off the 180bhp / ton but there seamed to be a few compact cup cars out last year so hopefully we wont be in the way.
Cams have been ordered to find a bit more power and if time allows I think we can get another 30-50kg's out of the car (and ideally a good few off of me as well, although that might be harder), every little helps
As has been said, anything goes extinguisher-wise. We use FIA dry break fuelling as it’s just so much safer (Did one race with Tuff Jugs and they leaked terribly so switched to dry break after that) so because of that we just use a CO2 extinguisher, mainly because if we did have to use it it is less messy than the others 
and if it’s a big fire the marshals will be on the scene soon enough with their extinguishers. Plenty of them in the pit lane.
It’s a great championship and is certainly a different challenge to short sprint races. We’ll be there once again with two, or possibly three, Lotuses.
Dan
and if it’s a big fire the marshals will be on the scene soon enough with their extinguishers. Plenty of them in the pit lane.It’s a great championship and is certainly a different challenge to short sprint races. We’ll be there once again with two, or possibly three, Lotuses.
Dan
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.Dan BSCS said:
As has been said, anything goes extinguisher-wise. We use FIA dry break fuelling as it’s just so much safer (Did one race with Tuff Jugs and they leaked terribly so switched to dry break after that) so because of that we just use a CO2 extinguisher, mainly because if we did have to use it it is less messy than the others and if it’s a big fire the marshals will be on the scene soon enough with their extinguishers. Plenty of them in the pit lane.
It’s a great championship and is certainly a different challenge to short sprint races. We’ll be there once again with two, or possibly three, Lotuses.
Dan
I’ll echo others comments about it being a great championship although I might be slightly biased 😉. and if it’s a big fire the marshals will be on the scene soon enough with their extinguishers. Plenty of them in the pit lane.It’s a great championship and is certainly a different challenge to short sprint races. We’ll be there once again with two, or possibly three, Lotuses.
Dan
With reference to the using Tuffjugs, we had lots of problems last year with fuel spilling out when we used the standard production fuel filler on the car but they can be made to work quite well by having the fuel filler positioned horizontallly on the car. Ours was modified (superbly) to sit flush with the top of the rear bootlid and once it was we never had any problems with fuel leaking.
The FIA dry break stuff will always be better (and so much faster) but if the budget doesn’t stretch then Tuffjugs can be made to work without leaking.
Thanks for the replies,
At spa we also struggled a bit with the tuffjugs, although I believe you can strip all of the restrictive internal bits out of an E36 filler neck to aid refueling, one slight advantages of the 318is is that it should in theory not need a huge amount of fuel at the pitstop.
We're all registered now and waiting for the donington entries to open. Need to fit a swirl pot, buy lots of light weight GRP panels and if time allows get the cams fitted at mapped, other than that I think we're pretty much good to go testing as the guy i'm sharing the car with hasn't driven it yet.
At spa we also struggled a bit with the tuffjugs, although I believe you can strip all of the restrictive internal bits out of an E36 filler neck to aid refueling, one slight advantages of the 318is is that it should in theory not need a huge amount of fuel at the pitstop.
We're all registered now and waiting for the donington entries to open. Need to fit a swirl pot, buy lots of light weight GRP panels and if time allows get the cams fitted at mapped, other than that I think we're pretty much good to go testing as the guy i'm sharing the car with hasn't driven it yet.
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