Gamer Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Glad it was nothing major. I think most of us must've been there with tweaking engines... or is it just me that managed to get flames off their engine? (Did the oil on the manifold thing with the kit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 yeah that was the same thing wasn't it Joe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wewsupra Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 OMG hope all is well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffleman Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Blimey, glad to hear all is now okay but yikes - bet that was a buttock clenching moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 yeah that was the same thing wasn't it Joe? Only in that it was an oil fire. Something gave out on my engine and oil came out of the breather system onto the hot manifold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class One Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Close one Jake could have been ALOT worse. 'bout time you had a small bit of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 lucky escape indeed - seems like he is definitely being looked after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandan Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Lucky escape - glad it was caught in time and not out on the road/track. Did you get it mapped in the end or is that waiting for another day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Hi All, Just been speaking to Martin who owns the rollers and it seems that the problem was the oil return line, it had been too close to the exhast, and it seems that it had been like it for quite a while. Whilst they were doing the first run they noticed some smoke from the engine bay and shut the car off, there was a small flame on the pipe which was put out quickly without any damage to any other part of the car or engine. As I am typing this a new pipe is being made and will be fitted at which point the mapping will start again. As you might imagine if this had happend on the road Jake may not have noticed the smoke and the outcome could have been very different. Perhaps now is the time for all us single bods to check our oil feeds and returns as no matter how secure we think they may be there is always the chance that something can come loose. Lucky escape - glad it was caught in time and not out on the road/track. Did you get it mapped in the end or is that waiting for another day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Go Jake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandan Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I did read the entire thread (if that was aimed at me) I'm about 6 hours off GMT at the moment and didn't pay too much attention to the times of people's posts so didn't notice how recent Greg posted up. 1000 apologies to you all, I am not worthy !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Ian Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 PHEW feared the worst when i read the title then ....glad its not to bad and looks to be sorted quickly and relatively painlessly ....like others said could have been far far worse Cheers Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I did read the entire thread (if that was aimed at me) It wasn't aimed at you. It was aimed at you and others Plus I wanted to write the same thing myself as I couldn't be arsed to come up with some new way of sounding sympathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Good stuff and not good stuff. Would have just been a TAD unlucky for another one to die on you. Think that would have been a definate divorce lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershark44 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Glad to hear its ok. Gamer, was that your sup burnt engine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaoriFan Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 oh damn, just read this, and you having this happen today. good that it wasn't something too serious and happened at the right place. keep the faith, Jake. all the best Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Glad to hear its ok. Gamer, was that your sup burnt engine? Soarer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopite Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Glad to hear everything's ok, stuff like this makes me want to sell the supra and just get a more sensible production car! At least car and owner are ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Damn that was lucky! What kind of feed was that if it burnt through? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 [qimg]http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~shemesh/5.JPG[/qimg] Was that your Soarer Joseph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadyn Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazboy Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Poor Jake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Just read the whole thread ( ) and all I can do is echo the others - glad it's nothing too serious. Could have been a lot worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lui Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Just read this thread & sorry to hear about it, could have been a lot worse. Hope you get it all sorted out soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 *Makes note to route oil return carefully* Could have been much worse Jake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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