this story is true as it just happen tonight and the car i am referring to in this story is my very own 90 Daytona ES 2.5L turbo, its a must read all kinda story
first off i have a tale to tell u guys about this night i had with my car. yes i know it would be better with pic's. but i don't have anything to take pic's so bare with me. and yes this first day i had up and running in the past 2 or 3 weeks
so the car check out all good, well i would say great!! and day goes pass as i drove around on roads close to my house, just in case it die on me i wouldn't have to walk too far. well i got about 100 mile on car and decide the car is working wonderful
so later that night i get around and clean up as i decide i was going to do something for my birthday even if it was on Thursday. so i decide go to my normal spot bar/strip club to see my friends. well some how the staff find out it was my birthday. probably because of my friend she told them as she know i had to work on my birthday and i was kinda pissed about that. well as u all ready figure out yes i was drinking. i was at that good buzz point but was not drunk. and next thing know i get this gut feeling i should go and go now. as i go to leave they try to tell me to stay as i not even close to being drunk and their plan was to get me drunk but pass and start walking out as i open the door... i was like HOLY ---- it raining almost go back in , but i decide to stick with the my gut feeling go to my car and go home
ok now the fun part of the story starts, or not so fun until i got home well the part that scared me
so i go to start my car it didn't fire up like norm it took a min, and after it fire up i could smell gas for a sec and smell went away, so i just kinda figure my ignition was wet or something i take off, the car seem normal i got to turn out on to the main street. sit and wait for a car to go pass then i pull out go to the light i notice my gas needle to move sightly. didn't real think much of it at all. so the light change i start to go to the next light, i get on car a little and it kinda act like it fuel cut on me. light change red i stop i look at my gas gauge "i be damned" it lost a 1/8 of a tank. left me going HUH!! then light turns green i start to take off the car even fuel cut at lower RPM. by the time i get to the next light with my luck it light turns red. A bolt of lighting flash i notice a lot of steam coming form the passenger side of the car and i also on top of 1/8th of tank of gas i lost additional 1/4th tank of gas . i start to think something is real wrong. the light turn green i goto take off. i can barely get the car go over 1500 RPMs and but it would idle just fine at 1000 RPMs. i quick spot a parking lot. gimp the car to it and while i doing this i lose another 1/4th tank of gas and the steam that was coming out of the passenger side is massively increased. at this time now i have car off the road in a park lot
the real good part of this tale
so i rip the E-break pull the hood release jump out of the car!!! as i open the hood i get sprayed in the face mostly the eyes. i cant see. pull my MIDSM beanie off my head and wipe my eyes which i can see but now everything is blurry and my eye feeling like they are burning from gas. i pull the hat away from my face to see a fire coming off the passenger side of the intake. so i run to driver side of the car. which car is still running.
(ok one side note the car has auto lock when it hit a some speed. and my locks are "sticky" and dont unlock most of the time when u open the door)
lucky my POS window can be pull half away down and u can unlock by pull up the lock it self. well the window wet and i am have a hard time try to get to slide down and after a min or so, i get window down far enough to unlock the door. i open door and turn off the car. and while i am in the car, i grab my 3/4th full 20oz bottle of Mt Dew. i run to the passenger side of the car and just dump my bottle on the fire. well fire almost out, but i run out of Mt dew . so i looking around and there a huge puddle of water. i a dip the bottle into puddle to get the bottle full. and put out the rest of the fire.
so now i standing in the down pour of rain. try to think what to do about the fuel line that has a hole in it. first i had to find the hole. so i squeeze line. and find where it coming from. good hole only about a inch from where it connect to the fuel rail. so i jump in the car and look and in panic because i cant find anything sharp. but what i found was 2 flats head screwdrivers 2 Philip head screwdrivers, and some sockets, so again i look and look i found a thing that kinda looks like big nail. well it it was more like a shaft that came to a point that was sharp. so i return to the engine bay and find where the fuel line had a hole and after 5- 10 mins i got the line cut. Ooo it was not pretty by any means. but i got all taken care of. start the car check for leaks... nothing all good!!!
now after feeling good about myself i realize i was just purely soak from the rain and was quit cold. as i a sit in the car all i could smell was gas. so i rolled down my passenger side window some and turn up the heat and start driving home. but have a hard time seem because my eye still hurt and feel like they are burn and real heavy rain didn't help. to help myself relax and with out a thinking... light up a smoke this about 5 mins after leaving the parking lot. i start to feeling kind like i need to puke because all i can smell gas i also think being buzz and my vision was fuzzy from the gas in eyes was all kinda leading to sick feeling i was getting. well my cig almost down to the butt of it. so with out real look i place into the ashtray while i was watch the road best of my ability . the next thing i know my leg feel real warm. i look at leg. HOLY ---- I AM ON FIRE!!! i have a small fire on my pant's leg by my knee. while i panic again to get fire out while pulling over to the side of the road. i jump out of the car in the rain. and where i pull over was some deep water like 1-2 inch start splashing my leg. i get the fire out. at least this time i left the door open on car. i jump in car now i only like 2-3 mins from the gas station that i normally stop at. i go there because i only had 3 smokes left. plus i figure i could use the restroom to wash my face and hands to help get rid of the gas smell. just my luck their restrooms are not in service. so i grab another Mt Dew . and i stand there i get another pack of smokes. the girl that works there that know me she looks at me and said "what ---- happin to u. and why do u smell like gas". so i tell her the tale. she starts LOL at me , and just happin the guy behind me was listen in and comment as she was LOL at me , his comment was " u must have not learn first time not to light a cig when u have gas all over u" then she stop lol at me a said " he cute so he can do dumb thing" then he look at me and said " dont worry i am a fire fighter just remember tuck and roll when u leave here and light your self on fire again with a cig"
well i made it home but i didn't light anymore smokes until i wash up and took off all my gas soak items.
so my question to all these guys that had there car on fire and lose them to the fire. WTF!!!!!!!!! i had been drink, my vision blurry and still got my car fire put out!!!!! WTF was wrong with u guys
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Originally Posted by 2.216VTurbo
Worst part was, it was probably 1/2gallon of C16. Crikey at $10/gallon!
