Thread: Rebuilding a 460, EFI or normally carb?

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Originally Posted by sunsetdart

btsave...............saw the pics and sorry to see anyones ride go up in flames....good thing you're ok, that's the most important.... do you know what caused it?

Not really certain, no fuel smell, no obvious electrical shorts... in fact engine was still running (idling) as the smoke & flames were billowing out. No fuel under the car and all clamps still in place. I popped the hood a crack and flooded the walls with water (only thing handy outside the car... fire extinguisher in the front seat, but I neglected to grab it & hesitated getting back into the car!) to drop the flames, then dumped a wet blanket over the engine to smother the rest of the flames. I think that possibly a piece of DEI under hood thermal lining may have come lose, fell onto the exhaust manifold and caught fire. The lining is fire/heat resistant to over 300 degrees, but not flame resistant at running manifold temperatures (over 500 degrees). If that happened the ensuing flames would have quickly spread to wiring, looms and them back to the rest of the thermal linings... the entire engine looks to be coated with rubber from the underside of the lining.... but this is just a guess as any excessive heat and flames would have had the same effect.