Re: Camaro fire...

["Jonathan Amo" <webmaster@landracing.com>]

Is this your way of making sure that you run the Berkley at Speedweek this
year??

Jon


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: "John Goodman" <ggl205@yahoo.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Camaro fire...


> Couple of questions there John.... Yes I've had an in-flight fire in a
> Helicopter.... and it didn't scare me near as much as this one.... it was
> just a fuel line issue and I was at a hover.... the crew chief on the
ground
> who had just seen me off had it out before the blades stopped turning....
>
> The first carb fire Tonya had wasn't near as bad as this.... it was caused
> from the distributor timing and her pumping the throttle to keep it
> running.... just back fired and caught the air cleaner.... we fixed the
> distributor 3 months ago and it's not been a problem since...
>
> This one wasn't associated with that at all.... something was flowing a
> massive amount of fuel onto the ground.... cause everytime I had it under
> control it restarted and kept burning..... bout the only thing I can think
> of that would do that is the float bowl vents.... none of the lines are
> loose.... I've already checked that....
>
> Oh well.... it's worse then I thought on further inspection the car's
really
> hurt pretty bad....
>
> I'm going to sleep on this and start sorting out what it means to me in
the
> morning...
>
> K

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