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Fire Suppression system installations |
BillJ |
Jun 4 2021, 08:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,111 Joined: 4-March 13 From: charlotte, NC Member No.: 15,610 Region Association: None |
Looking to update a race car with a 3-bay suppression system. I have done this many years ago but looking for suggestions on ideal routing for the lines and bottle location. Car has two seats (although rarely used right seat) so may impact routing and will probably do a dual nozzle in the cabin to make sure any riders are covered. Will want to spray both banks of carbs in the engine bay and one nozzle for the fuel cell space.
Anyone have some good pictures of routing they have done and where to locate bottle so it is out of the way? Pull locations appreciated too. Thanks! Bill |
FourBlades |
Jun 13 2021, 05:45 PM
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From Wreck to Rockin Group: Members Posts: 2,055 Joined: 3-December 07 From: Brevard, FL Member No.: 8,414 Region Association: South East States |
Is it still legal to mount the bottle inside the passenger area? On my IMSA 914 it was mounted in the passenger footwell, and I would like to do it the same way they originally had it. I think they 2 nozzles in the engine, at least 1 in the driver compartment and one over the fuel cell. John |
GregAmy |
Jun 13 2021, 07:00 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,311 Joined: 22-February 13 From: Middletown CT Member No.: 15,565 Region Association: North East States |
Is it still legal to mount the bottle inside the passenger area? I don't recall that it ever wasn't. What sanctioning body? No worries with SCCA, VRG, SCRA, HRG in the northeast. I locate nozzles for where the most likely areas to give the driver the most amount of time to get the car stopped and get out. Fire supression systems are for that, not for saving the car. They have guys in bright suits and trucks for the latter. (Edit: for example, I've seen systems with numerous nozzles in many places, all of which expire the bottle in a collective 1-3 seconds. Pointless. There should be fewer nozzles, most placed in area to protect the driver to give him/her time to egress; if capacity allows, place more to extinguish the source of fire. But there's so many possible areas of fire source that you can't cover all of them. Better to engineer and inspect your systems and focus on protecting the driver.) |
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