the oil pan was trashed along with the oil filter and cooler were broken off the block. that is what was leeking all over and starting the fire.
I just noticed them today. they looked sweet! well i think i know where you can find an oil pan (mike wray). isnt the oil cooler in front of the radiator? White STi wagon ftw...
Oh man... The Uncle Scotty's is still green... that sucks. Oh, and they are totally going to total it out, the antenna is bent. Those are like, really expensive, aren't they?
umm... i would get one of those stick on powered ones. and then get an atenna delete. it will work better and look cooler.
well i know on a sti there is a water cooled oil cooler that the oil filter screws to. and when we were all battling the flames by throwing dirt on the flames, that was flopping all over the place and was smashed. but there was dirt all over the place and i could be wrong
SWAP IN A GC!!! man my car looked way worse when i rolled it. how did it start on fire i just rolled mine back over and started it up. if your gonna fix it ill donate any parts that i have that you need like a door that i have.
upon closer inspection of the pics you didn't even go upside down. SUPER WEAK i went upside down 3 times.
I say that you should just rebuy the car back if you like it so much bee and just build the car instead of reusing oem parts
with a spatula??? my buddy back in Australia did a backflip in his around a corner coming off the main road... jackass
lets just say that there were a couple of people already trying to put the fire out before i got her and myself out.
Lack of fire extinguisher=dirt on fire/engine. But I do have one strapped in my car now for any future situations.
B, WTF! Mike told me about this. Im soo sad! Im glad your OK. He made it sound soo much worse. "Did you hear about B? She took a turn to fast and rolled her car 3 times, The car is ****ed". The car doesnt look too bad tho. But agian Glad you guys are OK!
the oil cooler is bolted onto the block via a hollow screw/bolt. Coolant lines fit onto the cooler and oil flows through the center part and passeges. This cooler puts the oil filter about 2 inches lower. If the motor is in good running order, then you can think about a GC swap, or if you don't want to mess with it then ask for buyers who have the time to make a project out of it. BECAUSE WMC's might get a hand on it! We don't want that to happen.
People wanted to put water on the fire is sad NOOO!! would have made the fire bigger so thats why I told them to put dirt on it. I too will be installing dry chem fire extinguisher in the sti
I told them to put dirt on it Greg, I yelled it from atop the hill. Don't you go taking credit for that. I'll slap your face.
good thing someone said to put dirt on it. water + oil fire = not good. GB on car fire extinguishers?
Thank you! I'll let you know if I need it, everything pretty much depends on insurance and damage right now. I need to know exactly what will need to be fix and how much it would cost and that I can't determine on my own.
Checker/Autozone/PepBoys...$14.99. Small price to pay for piece of mind. Just wish I would have gotten it before the trip.
You can get a nice basic car fire extinguisher for under $20 (I want to say closer to $10) from WalMart. Plastic bracket and plastic valve. If you want a good extinguisher with a metal bracket to attach it in the car & metal valve body, they are more like $40 from safedrives.com for a 1A:10B-C unit made by Amerex. I can talk to Charles @ Safedrives and see if he'll do a group buy if enough people are serious about it. And you should be. I've had to use one once (not on the Subaru), and desperately wished I had it (rental car, so I didn't have one, and was helping a guy who hit a deer) another time (got the fire out, but it was a lot dicier).
Keep in mind guys, those are really, really small extinguishers and unless you catch the fire right away they're not going to do much at all. Knowing how to use an extinguisher is also important, as you can push the fire into other areas if you're not careful. I've also seen people freeze up and forget to pull the pin, I was at a fire where a guy bent the handles on 3 (yes, three) extinguishers because he was so excited he forgot to pull the pins out. We wouldn't have been needed if he'd have gotten the first one working. Dry chem extinguishers also require a little bit of maintenance, usually done with a rubber mallet. It'd be a good idea to take the extinguisher on a monthly or bi-monthly basis and rotate it upside down and tap the bottom with the mallet until you hear powder moving around. What tends to happen is that people forget about them, and the powder will cake together in the bottom of the extinguisher. When you go to use it, you'll get maybe half of the actual extinguishing agent out.
That kind is effective, but the downside is that there's no pressure gauge on it at all, so you have to be consistent about checking it with the little push button, or you're going to have no idea if it's any good until you try to use it. I used to have one like that, and it's the one that I ended up using when I needed it. It did it's job. Good ones: http://safedrives.com/products.asp?cat=32 Bling ones: http://store.summitracing.com/egnsearch.asp?N=700+115+-197597&D=-197597 Cheap, and effective (and available at WalMart): http://www.btproducts.us/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=22
^^Would need to upgrade extinguishers with methonal applications. The fire that we dealt with, I believe that this little one would have extinguished it. But you're right, it's not very big. I was just in awe when we were all stuck w/o one! "Ahhhh!!, Fire!!!, no extinguisher!?! Throw dirt on it!!" I feel a little better prepared now. And thanks for the heads up Brian! I'll make sure to turn it over and smack it on the bottom every now and then.
One other thing to suggest. How may of you carry first aid kits in your cars? Again, they can be had pretty cheaply, and can be extremely valuable when you need them. I have one in each car (a specialized one in the rally-support car) and one on each floor of my home.
I keep forgetting but i will be putting a first aid kit in the car very soon. i need to find some sort of carry-all bag to hold all the crap i am adding to my car so it doesnt float around/explode all over my trunk. they may be little but think if everyone had one. 30 tiny fire exinguishers = 1 big one.
you come around a corner really fast then hit a patch of sand/gravel in the road and lose all control.
