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Post by johnc on Mar 22, 2017 11:55:03 GMT
I was just reading this on the BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-39339063
What I don't understand is how fumes can get from the exhaust at the back of the car, back to the front, up through the vents in the bonnet and then through the air intakes. The only reason might be that he had a faulty exhaust but I am sure that a mechanic would not have left it with such obvious issues - it would surely have sounded horrendous? |
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Post by Big Blue on Mar 22, 2017 13:43:38 GMT
Apparently an under bonnet alteration to the exhaust (so I assume "freer breathing headers" or some such) had leaked into the under bonnet space, then this had been sucked into the air system whilst the car was stationary and the air was still (i.e. no wind / airflow to feed the intakes). He was a modder, so I assume he thought the exhaust sounded "sick" in the modern interpretation of that word.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 22, 2017 13:45:56 GMT
Two young people dying is a tragedy but I can't help feel a little disappointed that this isn't a Steps appreciation thread started on the new forum.
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Post by LandieMark on Mar 22, 2017 16:00:22 GMT
He had removed the cat. I suspect he didn't replace it with anything so there was no connection from he downpipe to the rest of the exhaust. It's amazing how fumes can travel. When I had the Discovery and the exhaust broke at the centre section the car filled with diesel fumes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 19:25:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 12:41:59 GMT
Just an idiot, time to think about whether being able to do something having nothing to do with whether you should do something. The old Darwinian ism again.
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Post by Blarno on Mar 23, 2017 13:41:49 GMT
I love the way the article claims he was a Ford apprentice and 'knew what he was doing'
Clearly he didn't.
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