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I just wanted to echo the point about not having a fuel leak in your engine compartment, or anywhere else on your car.
When I first built my car I had a mechanical fuel pressure gauge on my fuel logs. After months of trouble free driving I smelled gas once after a cruse. I hit the power kill switch and jumped out to inspect the engine compartment. I found fuel had been DUMPING out of the broken gauge. I pulled it and put a pipe plug in the hole. I tore the gauge apart to see what exactly failed. A hole had developed in the flat copper expansion tube. The results of this could have been catasrophic!
I do have a halon fire extinguisher that vents into the engine compartment. But that would only work if activated. If it had of been a windy day I may have not noticed and walked away from the car...
Keep things simple, eliminate points of failure, use the best quality parts you can. As we can see from this thread, stuff can happen that could be a really good ignition source!!!
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