Jack Costello's car had a major fire at Bonneville one year on a return run.
The water pumps were still running and there was no way to shut them down
out side of the car. The fiber glass was melting over the engine and hard to
put out the fire. Having been on many of these fire related problems we want
everything shut off just in case.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bennett" <bennevl@bellsouth.net>
To: <Askotto@aol.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: As long as we're on electrical cut off switchs...
>I maybe wrong on this, but that's nothing new for me. Since he is running a
> Mag ignition, I would think he would need a cut off with 2 sets of
> contacts. One for his electrical system and one for the mag.
> Bill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Askotto@aol.com>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:39 PM
> Subject: Re: As long as we're on electrical cut off switchs...
>
>
>> In a message dated 7/15/2006 3:37:48 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, Askotto
>> writes:
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 7/15/2006 2:08:28 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
>> speedtimer@charter.net writes:
>>
>> Otto
>> The switch must be accessible to the emergency crews and marked with a
>> decal available from the inspectors.
>> Glen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Glen and DickJ
>>
>> I'll put one on up where the battery is located so the switch handle is
>> sticking on top of the body and easily visible with the decal,,,, unless
> of
>> course I'm on my head. Gee maybe I should have switch's on the sides and
> bottom
>> too! Hmmmmmmm, a Mercury switch inline with the toggle so if the car
> isn't on
>> it's wheels, it will kill the electrical also.
>>
>> Otto
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