I am using this system. Joe Timney is a distributor, has excellent prices
and can get the bottles retagged.
http://firefoxind.com/firefox.html
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
To: "Ron Gibson" <rgg14@cox.net>; "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>;
"Land Speed List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: fire extinguishers and race cars
>
>
> Ron,
> I use Halon for everything in the liner too. And I take exception to you
> comment that Halon is"driver safe". The only way Halon or other air
> displacement chemical can be safe is if the driver is breathing with a
> breathing system. My goal is to get the Halon out of my cockpit and
replace
> it with something that won't potentially hurt the driver due to
suffocation
> or poisoning and while I'm about it, put a system in the car that will do
a
> better job of fire extinguishing.......cooling.
> It is nearly impossible (the words of my fire extinguisher supplier) to
put
> "over 5 pounds" of Halon in a 15 cubic foot cockpit and not potentially
> injure the driver. Maybe in 100+ cubic foot sedan cockpit it would be OK
> but I doubt it. And then we are required to use care that the driver does
> not suffocate.........
> I am not confused about fire systems....I am confused regarding what John
> meant by his comment and that is why I asked him about it. I will
> eventually use Cold Fire or something similar in the cockpit and probably
> CO2 in the engine bays. But I want all the discussion on the subject
> available to all of us before I change the systems to anything else.
> Skip
>
> At 09:32 PM 11/3/2003 -0600, Ron Gibson wrote:
> > I think there is some confusion between fire systems. Tom uses a
driver
> >safe system for every thing ( Halon), which can be triggered at the same
> >time. If CO2 or dry chemical is used for the engine they have to be
> >separate from the drivers system. I think Tom has the right idea with if
the
> >engine needs it the driver needs it, one button.
> >
> >Ron Gibson, Omaha NE
> >
> >> John,
> >> My question was about "but you can't mix systems (driver vs engine)".
What
> >> did you mean by that?
> >> Just trying to understand.
> >> Skip
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