Yeah definitely not an engine fire, I'm no expert but the engine cover is barely damaged at all.

 

dude seriously this guy thinks those are te37's?

"im going to ask him if the rims are fine, they're 18" volk somethings.but i feel like the fire could've damaged them"

so i looked them up andh i think they are the volfk te37 and the color is mercury silver. dont know the status on them yet, but his car is in some junkyard in LA i guess

 

only thing i am confused about , is the way the car is parked. you would think if a person was freaking out, he would of just pulled to side of the parking lot, having his car still pointed in t he direction they way he came in. . espeically with a empty lot.

so i am just quite confused why he would park it normally. any how , the guy sent a pm calling me immature due to my pic lol.

 

Car was torched, how and why don't know but it was not a engine fire.

 

what does he expect wit a crackpot story like that?? there are very easy ways to create an engine bay fire that will guarantee totalling the car, its not hard, and you can do it in ways that cant be proven as arson. this whole story was fail from that first post

 

how would we start a fire that is fraud proof???.......hehe ....lol

 

yeah... really doesnt look like an engine fire. The few engine fires I've seen here on the forum melted just about everything in the engine bay

 

yup my bro's Mustang blew up in flames in front of our house good thing it was parked in the street cuz the flames shot up higher than our house

 

that really sucks to see an 8 burn like that.. the owner will get whats coming to him.

 

Sorry but I have seen SE3P engine bay fire pix and that my friends is a cabin fire not a engine fire.

 

I think the ash from his joint droped and caught the seat on fire.

 

lmao after his dumbass comment he deserves it

 

I mean I learned this better more being on a fire department for 2.5 years but had known this before I was even there. If theres a fire... don't pop the hood? Just my $.02



787b? haha

 

I think it's funny how some of the posters on that thread seemed to be not surprised at an RX8 blowing up randomly. It's like they think that happens a lot. Yeh turn the key and BANG happens all the time, sure. I know rotaries have reliability issues but COME ON, they are not time bombs! Jeezus, people read a little....

 

i have- 20 years ago the mother of my girlfriend at the time came home from grocery shopping she came in with a couple bags and asked if we would get the rest. when we got outside a couple mins later the car was on fire. flames and smoke filling the interior. she had been told a few days earlier that the floor felt hot and someone had seen her cat glowing.

so between her walking in and the couple mins we took chatting before we went out it had burst into flames.

 

OMG I laughed so hard haaaha

 

D:

Damn, that's horrible. I KNEW CAT'S WERE BAD IDEAS

 

If there's one place that would happen it would be Cypress. hahaha. Defiantly insurance fraud. I really like the Mazda 3 hatchback, but wow they have some unintelligent owners!

 

Dam fish where smoking out again?

 

Yea my mom had a rustang 5.0 and the cat use to catch fire lol we use to hit it with the hose

 

 

Does anyone besides me remember this thread?

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...highlight=fire

A few RX-8s have spontaneously caught fire. The young lady who was the victim of the fire in that thread got pounded here, the same way everyone is pounding the unknown owner of the LA burned 8. The same way the guy with the foamy oil (not foamy dipstick, but foamy oil) recently got pounded. Ultimately her insurance company confirmed that the fire started spontaneously, and she (rightfully) pounded back at us before departing.

See the link in post #20 for info on 8's catching fire.

Ken

 

The OP responded over there, for those who haven't been checking the 3 site:

 

and i responded back. theres no way from here to make a determination of what the cause was, but many things can be ruled out. like its obvious he wasnt hit by a 90mm rocket right? what can be ruled out as obvious is just dependant on thinking logically and knowing what to look for(experience or education)

origin could be anything from electrical failure to arson to a smoking accident or dozens of other things. but there certainly wasnt a fuel leak of any kind involved under the cabin. if he claims that's what the firemen told him - most likely he's lying, but IF true thats why he is behind a nozzle and not doing investigation.

maybe its possible for the cat to reach temps such that radiant heat(or conducted heat if some sheilding touches that shouldnt) is enough to start a fire in the floor pan carpeting or similar. i think it very unlikely but i cant rule it out since i cant recall now what that area of the car looks like and cant see the burnt one

 

Or was he?