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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Unless it is a dedicated track car mount it in the trunk where it belongs. In the event of a collision or roll over it WILL come out of the mount and turn into a tumbling bludgeon of death. There is no good reason on earth to need a FE in the passenger compartment of a street car.
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I think the idea is to have it handy when seconds count.
My first Supra was NA until I dropped a custom turbo kit on the car. With 120k miles and running rich on some fouled plugs, the cat started to get gummed up then was glowing bright enough for someone behind me to honk me from the highway to the shoulder. They shouted something was on fire or glowing under my car. I jumped out just in time to see some part of the underside beginning to catch fire. Maybe it was built up oil or gasket material or something, but I recalled the guy I bought it from left a small fire extinguisher next to the spare. I quickly grabbed it and managed to spray the underside before any damage occurred. I was real lucky I had the extinguisher or the car would have easily gone up in smoke.
Did it work out fine with it in the boot? Yea. Would it have been faster inside? Maybe. But having worked EMS and seen car fires and been through that situation, having a fire extinguisher close is my personal preference.