Burn to a crisp, yellow neon curse.. Kyra is DEAD.

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:48 am

LilSparkPlug wrote:Manny I'm sorry to hear that this happened . If any of the body parts end up being good and are SY I'd take them off your hands to help you out some if you're willing to ship. I'm hiding Nee too...

Thanks, but i honestly dong wanna hastle with shipping the bumpers and such plus i have a local friend withing driving distance to me that he wants the bumpers with sides skirts and hell he even wants my fenders.. so he is coming to pick em up sometime withing 2 weeks and ive let it go for cheap too cause well i need the money.

plus my old RT engine someone is coming to pick it up as well sometime within a week.

anyone wanna buy my wheels..?

umm does anyone think the srt block it self is worth taking out..? i mean im sure once taken off it can be cleaned in a hott tank thing, then someone can buy it and do whatever they need with it, Surprisingly the BOV and cold side pipe are perfectly fine as is the intake manifold and turbo manifold, plus the TB is still usuable as well so i guess the question is should i take the time to take the engine out and clean it up and try to find a seller for the block it self..? i wouldnt be asking much for the block itself.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:20 pm

Damn so sorry to hear. You are okay and its time to move on.

Whats the deal with the insurance? You have had issues with the insurance company before with past events, so I bet this won't go too well through them.

I remember in your progress log you posting about an oil leak:

so update: the leak was from my turbo oil feed line, fixed it last week and it ran fine, no more leak. the other day i was working on it & lost the oil Banjo bolt so now im waiting for one from the Dealer

Improper install? Forget the crush washers?

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:32 pm

Glad you are alright Manny. That's the most important thing, all the rest is secondary. Don't let something like this stop you from doing what you want though. Good luck in the future

smiley · Post by **smiley** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:21 pm

Damn, for real, Seems like all our SY's are in pretty bad shape right now. That really blows Manny, hope everything gets better.

Undesolved · Post by **Undesolved** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:44 pm

How did the tail lights look after this ordeal?

MoxHair · Post by **MoxHair** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:00 pm

Neon4Life wrote:dong

You said "Dong."

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:23 pm

MoxHair wrote:
Neon4Life wrote:dong
You said "Dong."

lmao I was going to quote that too! hahaha

Mopar65 · Post by **Mopar65** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:26 pm

Dude this sucks so bad! I've followed your build for so long. This is also the reason I keep an extinguisher withing hands reach in my SRT and no one gets why...

MoxHair · Post by **MoxHair** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:53 pm

Mopar65 wrote:This is also the reason I make sure oil lines are tightened down all the way and I recheck them often.

fixed that for you.

midnightSXT · Post by **midnightSXT** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:29 pm

Damn bro. That sucks. Glad you're okay though.

dsnowsxt · Post by **dsnowsxt** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:14 pm

I want the tails

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:39 pm

Neon4Life wrote:
LilSparkPlug wrote:Manny I'm sorry to hear that this happened . If any of the body parts end up being good and are SY I'd take them off your hands to help you out some if you're willing to ship. I'm hiding Nee too...

Thanks, but i honestly dong wanna hastle with shipping the bumpers and such plus i have a local friend withing driving distance to me that he wants the bumpers with sides skirts and hell he even wants my fenders.. so he is coming to pick em up sometime withing 2 weeks and ive let it go for cheap too cause well i need the money.

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I understand, just figured I'd throw it out there if you needed/wanted the extra cash and didn't have a local buyer. There are no SY's in JY's around here and I need the stupidest parts. Best of luck with everything!

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:18 am

MoxHair wrote:
Neon4Life wrote:dong
You said "Dong."

uhh i guess i did.. lol.

dsnowsxt wrote:I want the tails

PM me then. they are still in perfect working condition.

LilSparkPlug wrote:I understand, just figured I'd throw it out there if you needed/wanted the extra cash and didn't have a local buyer. There are no SY's in JY's around here and I need the stupidest parts. Best of luck with everything!

oh ok. surprisingly i got lots of people offering to buy things so im sure ill make some cash back... the number one thing i wanna get rid of but i know it will be hard cause no one wants them is the wheels.. i dont want the wheels. ahhhh!

skaterking411 · Post by **skaterking411** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:36 am

i like the wheels haha, i would take them if you were local.

Mopar65 · Post by **Mopar65** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:48 am

Specs on the wheels? I may be interested

Passt · Post by **Passt** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:43 pm

Wow dude I am so sorry...

dsnowsxt · Post by **dsnowsxt** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:15 pm

Thanks

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:46 pm

Neon4Life wrote:

LilSparkPlug wrote:I understand, just figured I'd throw it out there if you needed/wanted the extra cash and didn't have a local buyer. There are no SY's in JY's around here and I need the stupidest parts. Best of luck with everything!
oh ok. surprisingly i got lots of people offering to buy things so im sure ill make some cash back... the number one thing i wanna get rid of but i know it will be hard cause no one wants them is the wheels.. i dont want the wheels. ahhhh!

See look you posted that and already got a few people interested. Take the tires off em' clean them up and you'll have them sold in no time. They are nice looking that's for sure.

NeonNoob · Post by **NeonNoob** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:13 am

Saw Manny's car in person last week...whew. Glad he's ok!4

BoostinBen · Post by **BoostinBen** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:45 am

Always carry a small fire extinguisher in your car. I know ricer movies have made them mounted to the A-pillars seem like the thing to do, but you can easily just keep it in the trunk or mount it somewhere inconspicuous.

Reason being, I parked my SRT at a meet once, popped the hood and we were fiddling around with the throttle body cables since one got caught on the catch can (have since moved the catch can) and one of my braided metal fuel lines touched the starter and arched itself to another piece of metal and caught fire under my intake manifold. Luckily I had my extinguisher and was able to extinguish it before it burnt through the line where it would have met fuel. No damage was done, and all I had to to do was replace 10" of braided fuel line hose, which I re-routed away from the starter. Suffice to say, had I not had my extinguisher, we would have watched my car burn to the ground, too.

Sorry to hear about your car and see its pictures. Things like this happen more commonly than you think. Though you obviously didn't know about your oil leak, when people with valve cover gasket leaks running turbochargers tell me "I'll swap it out at some point but it's no biggie," I have to kinda' shake my head and usually tell them to switch that out before they go driving around again.

C1DoG · Post by **C1DoG** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:26 am

BoostinBen wrote:Always carry a small fire extinguisher in your car. I know ricer movies have made them mounted to the A-pillars seem like the thing to do, but you can easily just keep it in the trunk or mount it somewhere inconspicuous.

I keep my FE attached to the back of the rear seats.

XxWhiteNeonxX · Post by **XxWhiteNeonxX** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:06 am

C1DoG wrote:
BoostinBen wrote:Always carry a small fire extinguisher in your car. I know ricer movies have made them mounted to the A-pillars seem like the thing to do, but you can easily just keep it in the trunk or mount it somewhere inconspicuous.

I keep my FE attached to the back of the rear seats.

does it make me a ricer knowing that i have 2 in my car? lol

BoostinBen · Post by **BoostinBen** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:14 am

Shit I'd put a full sized one in my car if I could find a spot to put it...or maybe I could mount it in the trunk next to my methanol tank like it's a nitrous bottle!

XxWhiteNeonxX · Post by **XxWhiteNeonxX** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:16 am

BoostinBen wrote:Shit I'd put a full sized one in my car if I could find a spot to put it...or maybe I could mount it in the trunk next to my methanol tank like it's a nitrous bottle!

i have a mini one and a full sized one. lol

BoostinBen · Post by **BoostinBen** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:05 pm

XxWhiteNeonxX wrote:
BoostinBen wrote:Shit I'd put a full sized one in my car if I could find a spot to put it...or maybe I could mount it in the trunk next to my methanol tank like it's a nitrous bottle!
i have a mini one and a full sized one. lol

I have 2 mini ones...after the mini-fire I had I bought another just in case one fails. They're cheaper than shit so why the hell not?

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:12 pm

I have a pink one, I just need to find a decent place to mount it so that it doesn't look ghetto.

slowpeon · Post by **slowpeon** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:20 pm

Burn one down?

BLKSRT · Post by **BLKSRT** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:23 pm

damn sorry to see this.. car was clean i remember just seeing the thread on SRTforums about it..

and to answer ur question YES take the block out.. one of the locals around here had the same issue with an engine fire and still sold the long block for some good $$$.. best thing about it is that you dont really have to be careful on scratching anything lol.. just go at it..