rs1600i caught fire today
31-05-2009, 06:40 PM
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ffs mate propa gutted for ya. been following the thread and you have put huge amounts of effort into finding the correct parts so it was a proper rebuild to original.. genuinly gutted for ya mate
31-05-2009, 07:02 PM
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Is the damage form the fire brigade tryin to get at the battery or did you hit something?
Thats gutting it looks spot on in the 4pm pics and the rebuild thread was excellent-I've been following it since before you bought the bloody thing
Is the damage form the fire brigade tryin to get at the battery or did you hit something?
Thats gutting it looks spot on in the 4pm pics and the rebuild thread was excellent-I've been following it since before you bought the bloody thing
31-05-2009, 07:15 PM
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i dunno what to say mate, realy gutted for you. Nearly had this in my series 2 a few years back a cheap motor factor ht lead went up in flames i was lucky enough to have 2 litres of coke in the back which put the fire out
31-05-2009, 07:52 PM
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Sorry to see this.............Hope your going to rebuild her again,and im sure alot of people on this site will help out as much as they can with parts etc 
Oh my god! It was actually really hard for me to scroll down because i knew what was coming! Gutted mate.
31-05-2009, 08:55 PM
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31-05-2009, 08:56 PM
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Heres the resto thread for any of you that didnt see it.
https://passionford.com/forum/restor...storation.html
This was the cars first run after the restoration, just to make sure everything was working fine before the MOT next week and the insurance policy i was taking out mext week to get the car to the station
Its happened 20 feet from my drive. didnt hit nothing, the damage to the bonnet, well initially was the explosion then the fireman crowbaring the bonnet to get at the fire.
What basically happened as far as i can work out id the metering unit was sticking open and flooded the enginge to the point where i think it may have passed the bores in to the block as well.
The battery was getting low so I bumped it to get it to fire up
then basically when it did fire up about 5-10liters of flamin petrol erupted into the engine bay and BBQ rsi it was
It does look bad and well it is bad, a lot of hard work and more importantly rare/obsoulite parts are now melted to nothing.
The shell is ok apart from the off side wing which took the other end of the force from the scaffold pole/crowbar.
Sadly the interior is dead apart from a smelly rear bench.
Dont know what im gna do, the engine i think is ok, will whip it out and take it apart and have a look.
But basically all that survives it the suspension and shell.
Dont know what im gna do yet, maybe it will polish out
https://passionford.com/forum/restor...storation.html
This was the cars first run after the restoration, just to make sure everything was working fine before the MOT next week and the insurance policy i was taking out mext week to get the car to the station
Its happened 20 feet from my drive. didnt hit nothing, the damage to the bonnet, well initially was the explosion then the fireman crowbaring the bonnet to get at the fire.
What basically happened as far as i can work out id the metering unit was sticking open and flooded the enginge to the point where i think it may have passed the bores in to the block as well.
The battery was getting low so I bumped it to get it to fire up
then basically when it did fire up about 5-10liters of flamin petrol erupted into the engine bay and BBQ rsi it was
It does look bad and well it is bad, a lot of hard work and more importantly rare/obsoulite parts are now melted to nothing.
The shell is ok apart from the off side wing which took the other end of the force from the scaffold pole/crowbar.
Sadly the interior is dead apart from a smelly rear bench.
Dont know what im gna do, the engine i think is ok, will whip it out and take it apart and have a look.
But basically all that survives it the suspension and shell.
Dont know what im gna do yet, maybe it will polish out
Last edited by Lee Ivatt; 31-05-2009 at 08:58 PM.
31-05-2009, 09:08 PM
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i will donate some t-cut to the rebuild fund.
Seriously i think rebuild it.
buy a cheap shitty xr3i for most of the bits you need.
you had a spare front seat,
so you need a dash , 1 front seat and door cards for the interior
Seriously i think rebuild it.
buy a cheap shitty xr3i for most of the bits you need.
you had a spare front seat,
so you need a dash , 1 front seat and door cards for the interior
unlucky mate
31-05-2009, 09:18 PM
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i read your resto thread last week and thought you were printing pics of its first voyage, i could not believe what i have now seen, i am gutted for you pal.
hard to think now but dont give up on it after all that hard work.
hard to think now but dont give up on it after all that hard work.
31-05-2009, 09:31 PM
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!
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