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Re: Engine Installation - FIRE HAZARD !

Subject: Re: Engine Installation - FIRE HAZARD !
From: Graham Singleton <100421.2123@compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:40:33
>> fuel would almost certainly spill on to the red hot pipes (via the overflow
pipe) causing a fire, if not an explosion.<<

I thought that too, but one of our number who used to build race cars for a
living assured me that petrol would not ignite even on red hot pipes, far worse
he says is oil, which will ignite and is harder to extinguish. I found it hard
to believe but bow to his experience and reputation.

Graham



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