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Old 11-14-2006, 03:38 PM   #12
coombsie66
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Originally Posted by RC45
This story has a number of versions, many of which make no sense.

The bottomline is that any modern car with remote oil reservoirs and a high pressure distributed oil cooling systems can catch fire in an instant.

Oh - havent a bunch of F-cars and Lambos been all burned up recently as well?
Exactly, and all it takes is one guy forgetting to properly tighten up a union and thats it, hot oil on even hotter exhaust pipe, up she goes.

Not a matter of build quality IMO, that is the design in my eyes, this kind of thing is more a product of who has been working on the car!!
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