Under hood - Fire Suppresion

[voyageur]

I want to install an under hood fire suppression system, on my Discovery. Are there any commercialy available systems, or will it be a component build out?

Thank you for any information or experience...

Voyageur

[asteffes]

Look into the racecar-oriented systems from Safecraft and Sparco. They are very high quality and customizable.

[mountainpete]

Depending on how much space you have, you could try out something from Fire Bottle. I don't have any experience with it, just seen it before.

Pete

[voyageur]

Thank you for the suggestions...

I will enter the internet discovery phase tonight...

Voyageur

[Bella PSD]

I had a Fire Bottle system in 2 Formula racecars I had. It is a very simple system. It starts out with a Fire Extinguisher filled with Halon. The Fire Extinguisher is mounted remote from the engine. In the formula cars I had it was between my legs! At the end of the outlet of the Fire Extinguisher are 2 copper tubes. One ran to the engine and on to the driver.

To activate the Fire Extinguisher all you had to do was pull a safety pin before the race and if there was a fire during the race you just pulled a knob on the dash that ran to the Fire Extinguisher via a cable.

I would think you could plum the copper tube to any car/truck just like a Formula racecar.

Louie

[stevenmd]

Dave - I have to ask why you want to do this. Fires in the engine can occur with every make and model of vehicle but no more with a landie than any other vehicle. If you are experiencing too much heat in the engine bay, I would look at ways to alleviate that heat build up as opposed to putting in this type of system. If a fire does occur, the aluminum block will be toast from the heat before the system can even do it's job.

Although I think this type of system is pretty cool, though!

*edit - I stand corrected. Certain years the 110's were prone to engine bay fires due to the routing of oil lines.

[Andrew Walcker]

*edit - I stand corrected. Certain years the 110's were prone to engine bay fires due to the routing of oil lines.

From my understanding, not only the 110's, but all of the 90's with the 3.9/4.0 engines with the oil cooler lines. I'm sure this will apply to the Disco's of the same era. The problem was the hoses proximatey to the exhaust manifold. The solution is to replace them every 10 years or have a replacement set w/ braided hoses made.

[Best4x4xfar]

I want to install an under hood fire suppression system, on my Discovery. Are there any commercialy available systems, or will it be a component build out?

Thank you for any information or experience...

Voyageur

You could try firetrace..

[AlaskanFlightMedic]

How ironic...

Just saw something in a LR Mag just yesterday. I believe it is called the Flexifire something or other. It is fully automatic and originally used on rally cars on the Paris-Dakar. As a matter of fact, very interested in this myself and would love to hear from anyone that has any more information.

www.flameskill.co.uk

Paul

[kellymoe]

*edit - I stand corrected. Certain years the 110's were prone to engine bay fires due to the routing of oil lines.

And D-90's I had a 90 almost go up in flames a few years back. With the amount of leaking rovers have it's not a bad idea to have a underhood system for a quick knockdown.