okay soo uhh..
i put the home depot cold air kit on back on so i could run the LS1 maf..
all of a sudden i see smoke coming out from under the plastic tool kit i have sitting on top of the battery
i think "HOLY **** MY BATTERY IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!"
i run over and grab the tool kit off, thinking there was something metal that was hot, underneath it melting it.. and i see nothing..
SMOKE IS EVERYWHERE, BILLOWING OUT FROM EVERYWHERE AROUND THE BATTERY AND THE HEADER PANEL
i was completey panicking like a little girl who saw a roach on the floor i had nooo clue wtf was going on, i took the tools off the header panel while trying to hold my breath cause remember.. if a battery is smoking those fumes are sulfiric acid fumes.. dont breathe them unless you want your lungs to get eaten alive.. or something like that i remember reading once.. all i could think of was:
1. my car is going to explode
2. im going to get covered in battery acid
3. im inhaling acidic fumes
4. what a stupid way to die / get severely injured
at this point, the car is in the driveway and the front door is locked and i cant get the key to work, you gotta jiggle it kind of, and i was freaking out, there is the garage door but the garage is full of "acid smoke" remember.. so im like ??? WTF??? SHUT THE HOOD! KEEP THE DAMAGE TO A MINIMUM!!
i hold my breath and run over , shut the hood to the first click and run through the smoke filled garage into the house slam the door shut and start drinking lots and lots of water and taking huge deep air conditioned breaths.
i go over to the front door and peek outside.. the smoke is still billowing but its slowing down. after a few minutes it stops and the wind disperses the haze.
i go outside, open the hood, and i see what actually happened.
A month or so ago, we put an air pump off an LS1 car as sort of an evac system, so instead of a little K&N filter we actually had a nice suction going on..
anyway the pump burned out and i was pissed but thought oh well ill just find another one and hook it up.
the cold air kit i made passes through the firewall oval headlight access point, and somehow the power wire for the air pump, which was 14 gauge wire, ended up perfectly underneath the pipe as it went through the opening. the metal cut through the insulation and bam.. 6ft long 14ga wire directly shorted from the pos terminal to the dr side radiator support. all 6ft of the wire had no insulation left, it was all in a neat crispy pile on the ground. I'm sure not all of you fused your electric fan wiring, and maybe not your headlight hotwire harness wiring, and maybe not your line lock, etc etc.
If you havent, buy something like this that will put all your extra accessories on one 8 gauge wire , with all of them safely FUSED.
the 14 gauge wire melted halfway through a few split looms so i'll have to replace those, and it melted through the top plastic somewhat of the battery. hopefully its fine, but i realize this could have been a lot worse. That wire could have caught other things on fire, it probably couldve made the battery explode somehow if it melted too far through the plastic casing, im not really sure, but im happy i didnt find out.
the moral of the story if you havent gotten it yet, FUSE EVERYTHING YOUVE ADDED, EVEN IF YOURE SURE 'IT WONT HAPPEN TO ME'
i put the home depot cold air kit on back on so i could run the LS1 maf..
all of a sudden i see smoke coming out from under the plastic tool kit i have sitting on top of the battery
i think "HOLY **** MY BATTERY IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!"i run over and grab the tool kit off, thinking there was something metal that was hot, underneath it melting it.. and i see nothing..
SMOKE IS EVERYWHERE, BILLOWING OUT FROM EVERYWHERE AROUND THE BATTERY AND THE HEADER PANEL
i was completey panicking like a little girl who saw a roach on the floor i had nooo clue wtf was going on, i took the tools off the header panel while trying to hold my breath cause remember.. if a battery is smoking those fumes are sulfiric acid fumes.. dont breathe them unless you want your lungs to get eaten alive.. or something like that i remember reading once.. all i could think of was:
1. my car is going to explode
2. im going to get covered in battery acid
3. im inhaling acidic fumes
4. what a stupid way to die / get severely injured
at this point, the car is in the driveway and the front door is locked and i cant get the key to work, you gotta jiggle it kind of, and i was freaking out, there is the garage door but the garage is full of "acid smoke" remember.. so im like ??? WTF??? SHUT THE HOOD! KEEP THE DAMAGE TO A MINIMUM!!
i hold my breath and run over , shut the hood to the first click and run through the smoke filled garage into the house slam the door shut and start drinking lots and lots of water and taking huge deep air conditioned breaths.
i go over to the front door and peek outside.. the smoke is still billowing but its slowing down. after a few minutes it stops and the wind disperses the haze.
i go outside, open the hood, and i see what actually happened.
A month or so ago, we put an air pump off an LS1 car as sort of an evac system, so instead of a little K&N filter we actually had a nice suction going on..
anyway the pump burned out and i was pissed but thought oh well ill just find another one and hook it up.
the cold air kit i made passes through the firewall oval headlight access point, and somehow the power wire for the air pump, which was 14 gauge wire, ended up perfectly underneath the pipe as it went through the opening. the metal cut through the insulation and bam.. 6ft long 14ga wire directly shorted from the pos terminal to the dr side radiator support. all 6ft of the wire had no insulation left, it was all in a neat crispy pile on the ground. I'm sure not all of you fused your electric fan wiring, and maybe not your headlight hotwire harness wiring, and maybe not your line lock, etc etc.
If you havent, buy something like this that will put all your extra accessories on one 8 gauge wire , with all of them safely FUSED.
the 14 gauge wire melted halfway through a few split looms so i'll have to replace those, and it melted through the top plastic somewhat of the battery. hopefully its fine, but i realize this could have been a lot worse. That wire could have caught other things on fire, it probably couldve made the battery explode somehow if it melted too far through the plastic casing, im not really sure, but im happy i didnt find out.
the moral of the story if you havent gotten it yet, FUSE EVERYTHING YOUVE ADDED, EVEN IF YOURE SURE 'IT WONT HAPPEN TO ME'
