That gold BOOYA magna is dead....

[chops]

Story HERE

Pictures HERE

Sure, a lot of us never liked the car, but flames aside (oops, pun!) you would be spewing.

[Oosh]

Jeezus! That shot of the bubbling mess left on the road and FMIC core sitting there is nasty!

[MattR]

damm i feel for him, i cant imagine looking at your car burning would feel

[r33skylinegtst]

That's heaps sad. I really liked the car too, ever since it was featured in Zoom. Poor guy.

[OYEAHA]

poor guy all that hard work up in flames. gives him a reason to buy a nissan now

[Oosh]

Oh and on reading some of that thread, it wasn't insured! :Oops:

[Cillham]

i think im going to install a fire extinguisher very soon

are the ones from auto barn CAMS approved?

[Gold BOoya Magna]

Hi guys, was just pointed out to this thread

altho, its the worse day of my life - i think im safe to say "it could of been much worse"

a good point taken into consideration is when a guy from the boostcruising.com forums made this comment - and then it clicked - so maybe guys with turbo timers - have a bit of a think

So sorry to see. Terrible shame to happen to such a nice car.

I am interested to know if you turned the ignition off when you got out of the car initially?

its funny, because i did turn the keys off -and put the keys in my pocket (its all i have, and they are my new lucky charm)

BUT - now that i think about it - maybe the fire continued because i have a turbo timer - the engine was still "spose" to be running -which would mean the fuel pumps are still feeding fuel -

this could of been one of the reasons why i couldnt put the fire out - as while im trying to fight it - the pumps are still supplying fuel for it..

i cannot be 110% sure its the reason why i couldnt put the fire out - but it did occure to me only this morning, when doing a "brainstorm" of the "Chain of events"

so it could of well been my turbo timer that was the ultimate cause for my demise - no timer = no ignition, and no power to anything in the car = might of been able to isolate the fire + 30sconds is what its set for, so it would of put 30seconds worth of fuel into the already flaming engine bay - 30seconds worth of 2xbosch 700hp pumps - thats a hell of a lot of fuel

Thanks for the kind words guys

RIP BOOYA

[sewid]

Damn shame . Condolences. I hope you can muster the strength for the next project, whatever it may be.

[TIMMMAYYY]

talk about pwned.

[readyGO]

i feel realy sorry for you...

[Maxx]

O M G.................

i feel for u, the worst thing to happen.

Watching yr pride and joy in trouble but can't do anything...

[Nightcrawler]

that's why everyone needs to make sure their turbo-timer can't activate unless the handbrake is fully on.

Condolances mate - you'll be back better than ever.

Very much time to go the Nissan option - if you spent even a fraction of what you spent on the Magna on an R34, you would easily have it in the 11s.

[Gold BOoya Magna]

that's why everyone needs to make sure their turbo-timer can't activate unless the handbrake is fully on.

Condolances mate - you'll be back better than ever.

Very much time to go the Nissan option - if you spent even a fraction of what you spent on the Magna on an R34, you would easily have it in the 11s.

as much as i love the R34's - and with all respect to you - i wanted something "different" - altho, i will be looking at the nissan camp for my next car for temp purpose, but the magna - was to show the world a "old mans car" can be something - atltho, it isnt much now, it did draw your attention didnt it

Regards,

Ben

[Gold BOoya Magna]

oh - and the hand break was on when i left the car!!

its a natural thing to do - stop car - handbreak - turn car off!

so really - it was a natural instinct loose-loose situation

[MattR]

dont 34 lines look the same as magnas????????????? hehe

[jezzerrr]

Man I feel really sorry for you! I had a magna before the skyline - same deal, i wanted something different tho i only got as far as lowering and 19's.... I have photo's of your car on my computer, one of the nicest put together magnas out there!

My condolances

That woman didn't actually say "you look back on this and laugh" did she? If she did, shedeserves a smack in the head! it's not something you say while someones pride and joy is still burning!

I think i know the reason people put those battery isolator switched in now... I hope it wasn't the turbo timer, but it raises an interesting point... and I hear ya on the handbrake, that's the first thing I would have done too!

I can assure you tho, that if you decide to go the skyline route, you will never look back. I spent quite alot of money on the suspension on the magna, and the skyline is soooo much more dynamically(and in performance) superior out of the box than I could have hoped to make the magna be. To hell with being really different, it costs too much damn money!!! I bought the Skyline for the equivalent of the Magna, and I would have had to spend at the very least 15k on the Magna to even hope to get the enjoyment out of it that I do the skyline. As for being different, the skyline turns plenty enough heads to keep me satisfied

I know it seems like i bagged out the Magna here, but i still loved it for what it was it had decent power, could leave commy's behind (much to their disgust) , handled ok, and made people think twice about their preconceptions of magnas. They're given a really bad wrap, and they dont deserve it. I blame mitsu's PR! but that's a story for another day.

hope you get some wheels back soon mate. Make sure you test drive a couple of r32's if you dont have alot of money to spend

[CheekyR32]

Im really sorry dude, thats horrible. No one deserves that.

It's lucky you were not hurt. That's the main thing.

[[WLDCRD]]

yikes!

[MADGT4]

talk about pwned.

No shit!

Your timer comment has got me really worried too.....

I have this other vid on my comp of a guy with what start out as a tiny electrical fire turns into one huge fire! He trys to put it out with a extingusher but still nothing, and shows the whole car burning to nothing!

My worst fear is watching my car burn and not being able to do anything!