My extinguisher is all plumbed up to use 10mm tube. The fittings are push on, which make it very easy and quick to manufacture. The kit came with 4 nozzles, 3 ‘T’ fittings and all of the electronic gubbings. As there a 4 nozzles I suppose I should use all 4 as it will be calibrated for 4, and after reading the blue book a bit more, it seems to make sense to squirt 2 at me and 2 in the engine bay where fire may occur. Like the copper brake pipe this tube also comes wound up, so again my first move was to unwind the tube.
I have decided to run the extinguisher in the passenger side of the car, to prevent damage, along the floor and then to follow the central ‘tunnel’. The extinguisher tube seems to be easily bent by hand of using a tube bender, which helps to get nice radius-ed bends. So I drilled a hole in the rear panel and bent the tube as shown. Then I taped it into position so I could cut and bend it a little more accurately. I again used the same cutter as for the copper brake lines.
Inside the extinguisher kit are some little tie wraps that clip into the aluminium panels, so I then drilled the panels for these
I used one of the ‘T’ pieces to split the foam stuff from front to back.
I then bent up a tube to connect from the ‘T’ to the front, as shown below. I then pushed on another ‘T’ and bent another small length of tube and connected one of the nozzles
Next was the other side, the second driver nozzle. Unfortunatly I didn’t have time to drill the chassis for the tube clips
At the back was a similar story, a ‘T’ in the middle of the car, and a double bend to mount the tube nicely onto the bulkhead
The final bit I had time for today, and due to the fact I ran out of tube, was the right hand side rear nozzle.
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