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Originally Posted by bkozlow
I just purchased for one of my cars a new fire extinguisher, an upgrade from a 1 1/2 lb unit to a 2.5 lb unit. Even, though they are more expensive than the dry chemical units, the Halon units are a small investment with high returns, if you are so unlucky to have an engine fire etc. The one major advantage of the Halon is the fact there is NO CLEAN UP, which is not the case with dry chemical units. Needless to say the complete under hood suppression Halon system is the way to go but this is very expensive.
Bill K
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We go through this same affair every few years, the problem with halon is that it works fantastic in a closed environment, but not so good in an open cockpit or an engine compartment with a lot of airflow, such as your Cobra replica. For it to work, you need to get in awful close to a fire and hope what you have in your 2.5 unit is enough to snuff out the oxygen quickly to extinguish the fire, as that is how halon works, it displaces the oxygen, thus causing the fire to strangle itself for lack of it.
Bill S.
PS; you want a AFF, liquid based (actually plant based chemically) extinguisher or fire suppression system like
THIS ONE