DIY-EG/DC2 Fire Exitinguisher install for CAMS events

[EG30]

Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk

Objective:

To mount cams approved 1kg fire ext with cams approved metal bracket w/ steel strap inside an EG/DC2 within reach of the driver in event of a fire as required by the current cams regulations as of 2008. And doing so without drilling holes into the car's body/floorpan with ease of removal during events or using the setup in another car of the same type.

Parts List:

Mild steel bar 2.5mm thick by 31.5mm wide and 460mm length.

Fasteners ie nuts and bolts to fix bracket onto steel bar.

Fire ext with steel bracket 1kg from fire outlets.

Tasks Description:

I got given my piece of steel off my fren Graeme of the Perth CRX forum; he bought the whole length ( 3M lengths? ) at Bunnings and he bought it originally to mount the same in his ED9 CRX.

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The spacing between the 2 larger holes for the seat rail front bolts to go thru is 430mm on my car, I've made the holes slightly larger than nec so it gives me a bit of room to move if the measurements or drilling wasnt spot on.

Once I've trial fitted the bar and marked the position of the fire ext bracket so it wont foul the seat fore-aft adjuster I then drilled the 2 small holes for the bracket's attachment to the steel bar. Only then I gave the steel bar a good clean to rid of surface rust and grime prior to paint with black enamel spray.

As the bar sits pretty close to the floor reo bar on the floorpan between the seat rail bolts, it's a good idea to cut off the ext bracket bolt just past the nut. I'll be using an angle grinder to do that soon.

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Finished product:

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with nozzle facing door for ease of inspection of service tag to be checked by scrutineers at CAMS sanctioned events.

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Clears the adjuster by 10mm or so, oh yeah.....:)


It's quite forunate that with this setup with SR3 seats the seat clears the fire ext at almost full range of fore-aft travel, not sure if this is the case with factory and non SR3 seats

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I'll be doing another bracket for the driver's seat which would be a mirror image of this setup, so if I need a total 2kg fire ext setup for touring road events as required by CAMS down the track it's there ready to go; and prior to that it will stay in our dc2r so I wont need to keep bolting and unbolting the fire ext between cars between events.

[SHOGUNOVDDRK]

wow that looks really good

Good work alot of people are going to use this and save $$$ on this :)

[VTEC@14.7psi]

i can't see the images :/ does anyone else hav this problem?? or is my puter taking a sht?

[JasonGilholme]

you comp is shit. i can see them all fine.

its a good DIY you're missing out.

[VTEC@14.7psi]

fixed - have zonealarm n waz blocking "banner ads" dunno what that has to do with normal images but neone else with the same prob go to Privacy setings>Ad Blocking>then put that shit on medium. - thanks for the DIY btw, is it hard to reach/unlatch for the driver?

[e240]

with nozzle facing door for ease of inspection of service tag to be checked by scrutineers at CAMS sanctioned events.


Just so it doesn't come as a surprise to you, you will still have to take it out because they need to view the expiry date normally stamped at the bottom of the bottle.

[dsp26]

Awesome!! was wondering how to 'stick' them on...

only thing i'd do different is put a 500g at least in front of both seats or do you need a single 1kg load for CAMs events?

just seems better to me for accesibility...

[e240]

single 1kg one. Make sure you get one with a metal bracket which locks the bottle down.
Plastic brackets are not allowed.

[minhkore]

well done it actually looks really neat :D
good effort there.

[DNYALL]

Looks the goods man :thumbsup: but I was just thinking that because you have used the OEM bolts to lock in the mounting bracket and the mounting bracket doesn't ecxactly sit flush with the seat rails, doesn't that mean that the bolts will not screw in properly. As in not all the way. Therefor won't get a secure tight fit. I have been thinking about doing this for a while but was a little worried bout that?? Maybe I am just over thinking things...:o

[EG30]

It's not too bad, it does use up some of the bolt's thread length in my case but still more than plenty.

[AsH_]

can we have fire extinguisher in cars for normal driving on roads?