“Safety Third” is a great motto to live by, but it’s no way to win a race. With that in mind, Kevin and I have installed a state of the art fire detection and suppression system in the car. I can’t give away too many details of the top notch tuning that has transformed the STi into the fully operational space station it is today, but let’s just say there are some shiny silver and blue bits in the engine compartment that really work well together. A second-rate fire retardant system just wouldn’t do. With limited space (our turbo alone is the size of a beach ball) we can’t have any fancy tubing or sensors, so we focused on extinguishers. We chose three red and a cute little silver guy, and just threw them on top of the engine after research showed most fires start somewhere around the engine. With safety sorted, next week we turn to weight reduction strategies. Look for an upcoming post, “Cardboard: the new Carbon Fiber.”
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