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Does anyone know if you can by a reasonably cheap mechanical Plumbed Fire Extinguisher Kit in aus?

In the UK they sell the following for about 100 pounds + shipping, however they all seem to be reluctant to send outside of the UK (I expect as we probably have different safety standards or something similar).

Mechanical plumbed in fire extinguisher

The cheapest thing through revolution racegear nsw is about 900 just for a canistar.

Anyone one know of similar kits sold in the UK that are available here?

I wouldn't expect they'd ship that standard freight as it's a pressure vessel, i.e, Dangerous Cargo.

In my opinion, you really still need to run a hand held or two, there'd be nothing worse than coming across a burning vehicle and you can do nothing because your fire fighting equipement is permanently installed in your car, 10 ft away but useless.

In fact, in rallying, you still need hand helds even if your car has an installed system for just that reason.

And I couldn't justify the weight of dragging both types around.

+1 to not being able to find anyone to ship a pressurised pressure vessel. When we fly with our paintball tanks (High pressure air ~4500psi), we remove the regulator so there is no chance the tank can hold any pressure.

P.S. http://www.summitracing.com/search/Departm.../?Ns=Rank%7cAsc

No way are you going to buy a "reasonably" priced mechanical plumbed priced one in Aust mate. I have one in my Radical which I would like checked out,,,but even that is pricey. Very few companys are qualified to re-change them here as well.

This revolutions kit is what I have,,,just a different brand but pricing is very reflective of the shit they have to go through.

http://www.revolutionracegear.com.au/index...rimary&CDO=

OH & S and the need for safety data sheets almost prohibit freighting them within this country let alone from overseas,,,which is quite funny because no-one bitches about them installed with the purchase of a car. My car came into the country with nothing said.

Ben's absolutely correct with regard to rallying,,,but if circuit racing is your game,,,head for the nearest marshall,,,rally's little 2 x 1 kilo things are basically only good for maybe getting the two humans safe. They have little to no chance of saving the car in a big one.

Cheers

Neil.

Another supplier just confirmed they won't ship given its a pressurised vessel. It makes sense I just didn't realise it earlier.

I thought it would just be handy to the plumbing into the engine bay for the price they were offering the kit at. Its just an old street car that will see occassional track days.

Given the price it would cost to do this in aus it just isn't worthwhile for my car's useage. Strange as it is a great cheap idea that lots of people are using O/S.

That setup you have Neil looks great and similar to the those UK and US kits just in 4litre size. Unbelievable about the price difference though.

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I have one in my Radical which I would like checked out,,,but even that is pricey. Very few companys are qualified to re-change them here as well.

Really?

Wormald / Chubb et al do installations into mobile equipment all the time - must be thousands of installations around the country, ranging up to a couple of hundred grand for some of them. Surely they'd be qualified to service and charge onboard systems. As for their pricing - well I have no idea what they would charge for that service (several grand a pop for mining gear)

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