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Old 05-07-2009, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by spookypt View Post
Please tell... What was the fire story? OUCH!

Spookypt
The conditions on the day were very hot & dry and the track temps made the conditions very severe.

In Paul's case it I believe that the combination of his under-body exhaust and track conditions caused excessive heat in his tank creating fuel system problems. This lead to a poor running engine and fuel vapour that was not contained. His engine backfired and things went down hill from there.

I spoke to Paul at length on Wednesday and he is using the incident as catalyst for taking his car off the road and updating/redoing it - including a change of colour.

I'm sure that his car will re-emerge looking (and running) great.

LoBelly
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