Great job! Wow, that did clean up the visual element big time Who's fire suppression system are you using?
Decisions, decisions ....
Thanks! - Don't know what I was thinking with my first approach, brain was off for at least the better part of a whole afternoon while I was building those chimney stacks!!
I choose Safecraft for a few reasons; I like the 3M Novec agent, I liked the idea of the automatic heads in parallel with the manual....maybe overkill for us but I watched a guy, knocked out, in a sprint car fire, left an impression. And they were having a smoking deal at PRI. Customer service has been great. If I was going to do the automatic head again, I would have exactly mapped out the head location and line path before ordering, as the automatic line is pressurized from the factory. I sort of did that, but could have eliminated this mounting bracket if I just had the head mounted to the line with a 90 degree fitting from the factory.
I'm also going to do a 5lb, separate system for the interior.
I looked at SPA and FireBottle and Lifeline...all were solid solutions as well. Don't think there is a LatG sponsor for this one but hopefully someone will jump in here if they have another idea, probably should be a whole lot more conversation on this topic.
Great work on the booth, my garage will need a full overhaul once the car heads out to paint as the poly dust ruins everything!
Thanks! So true. I tried to convince myself that just doing the firewall wouldn't put dust in every possible nook and cranny within a 100' radius. Lying to myself when I know better seems to be common for me.
Just scanned through your build thread... looks awesome.
Nice work on the fiberglass parts. I cheat the mold process like you do, sometimes using the thin aluminum house flashing material or tin foil to do lay ups on.
On your inner front fiberglass liners there is a thin liner material similar to the foam board that will prevent the rocks coming off the tires from star cracking your gelcoat on the good side. It gets put under the last layer of glass.
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Just scanned through your build thread... looks awesome.
Nice work on the fiberglass parts. I cheat the mold process like you do, sometimes using the thin aluminum house flashing material or tin foil to do lay ups on.
On your inner front fiberglass liners there is a thin liner material similar to the foam board that will prevent the rocks coming off the tires from star cracking your gelcoat on the good side. It gets put under the last layer of glass.
Thank Gary. Agreed...was a cheater mold for sure. I would have built a proper mold if I thought someone here could benefit from it but I think my fenders are such a one-off that the gains for others would be small.
I think you are asking what the material is? It's a single layer of Kevlar but it's just in the area in front of the dry sump tank and really just to help with any larger object going through to the tank/lines/fittings. I would do 2 layers if I had to do it over, one is good...two solves it 100%. Just capitalizing on the better ballistic properties of the Kevlar in this area, I'm not really doing it to help with any spider cracks, though it would probably help there too. I'm going to gamble a bit with protecting the inners by doing a semi heavy coat of Raptor, maybe 4 layers on the part of the inners that can be seen from the engine bay. I built the inners so they could be removed without removing the fenders, sort of expect some repairs at some point. Hope that helps?
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Who's fire suppression system are you using? 
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