Friday the 13th must hate our cars

[L.O.R.D. SVX]

My damage ain't bad or anything like that, but here goes. Right after work, heading home, my cam angle sensor burned out. Engine shuttered then shut down. Right in the middle of rush hour in Waikiki with all the tourists and commuters. I kept on cranking it just to get a few yards foward to get to the side. Then it just keeps shuttering and shutting down. I have bad crank and cam seals. So while this shuttering thingy was going on I noticed my car starts smoking up like crazy. I was so embarresed. But I just kept chugging along till I reached an openning on the side across a tourists bus stop -uncool-. To make matters worst, this lady from across the street started to yell at me, " your car's on fire!!". I'm thinking she's telling me my car's smoking bad. But my car was REALLY on fire. One of the store's workers gave me a fire extinguisher and I blasted it. The oil gushed on my exhaust I'm assuming, and flared up. My girl bought a new sensor, I put it in right there and drove it home. This is all from a sensor, mean ahh .

[bwb3]

And then you get hit with an earthquake. How did that go?

[Archer999]

That is one crazy story. Very resourcefull to be able to change a sensor after that kind of a public display, and just be like, ok thank you folks the show is over and drive home.

How did you know it was that sensor?

[TomsSVX]

well really the timing from the ignition cam way late because of the bad sensor, all of your combustion hit after the exhaust valve was openm wich shot all that fire and fuel into the exhaust making it HOT. This in turn began to melt the rubber hangers on your exhaust and ignite any oil residue on it. Hence the fire... good luck, I have been down that road before

Tom

[Suby Fan]

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

well really the timing from the ignition cam way late because of the bad sensor, all of your combustion hit after the exhaust valve was openm wich shot all that fire and fuel into the exhaust making it HOT. This in turn began to melt the rubber hangers on your exhaust and ignite any oil residue on it. Hence the fire... good luck, I have been down that road before

Tom

do you hold the record for most fires in a svx?

[TomsSVX]

actually I have only had one of my 4 svxes ever catch fire. It was just after installing a news engine... which just so happened to have a bad cam angle sensor... all the grease from swapping the engine burst into flames on the exhaust... after the fire was out and I knew there wasn't any damage, I replaced the sensor with a good one and bam... the new owner drove it away not even an hour later... One fire and I am hoping to keep it that way. I have had several fuel leaks in my silver but luckily none of them resulted in a fire

Tom

[Suby Fan]

what about the NO2 fire?

[L.O.R.D. SVX]

Originally Posted by bwb3

And then you get hit with an earthquake. How did that go?

HAHA, Well where I live, it felt more jiggly then hard hitting. Ummm... then the power shuts down state wide 5 min later. This was like 7:20am. I got power back about 4:00pm. My area was one of the first. The last few that regained power was this morning, sun shinning and all , heh, sad yeah.

[L.O.R.D. SVX]

Originally Posted by Archer999

That is one crazy story. Very resourcefull to be able to change a sensor after that kind of a public display, and just be like, ok thank you folks the show is over and drive home.

How did you know it was that sensor?

yeah talking about that, when I was waiting for my girl to come, I could here the retail dudes across the street talking to each other about how I was screwed and how it was to bad the car still looked good (thinking I had to trash it, I guess ) But anyways, I left my car to go get something to drink, came back when my girl arrived. When I got the sensor in and started to drive off, one of the workers pointed at me with eyes wide open and calling his co-worker to check the car down in flames drive off. It was funny .

[TomsSVX]

Originally Posted by Suby Fan

what about the NO2 fire?

It was a backfire... didn't actually catch anything on fire

Tom

[It's Just Eric]

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

actually I have only had one of my 4 svxes ever catch fire. It was just after installing a news engine... which just so happened to have a bad cam angle sensor... all the grease from swapping the engine burst into flames on the exhaust... after the fire was out and I knew there wasn't any damage, I replaced the sensor with a good one and bam... the new owner drove it away not even an hour later... One fire and I am hoping to keep it that way. I have had several fuel leaks in my silver but luckily none of them resulted in a fire

Tom

Hmmm...hope it doesnt follow the trend.Pretty close thus far, have the engine swap, the greese and oil, and the bad sensor.
P.S.-Got the car running

[/Hijack]
Good to see another...not destroyed...svx

[TomsSVX]

glad to hear it Eric... I knew u would get it all done. good luck with the 96 and let me know when u want to go twin engine with the 94

Tom