Fatal mods

[Bruce Jibboo]

Article is clearly anti-mod, either intentionally, complete ignorance, or both.

Article alleges gases leaked between motor and exhaust but then says removal of cat converter was a big contributing factor?

"Two friends died from carbon monoxide poisoning after sitting in a "souped-up" car that had been fatally modified, an inquest heard."

Friends killed by carbon monoxide after Ford Fiesta 'souped up' to improve performance, inquest hears

Article may be considered a free thread or free posts it's so ridiculous.

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[Flyn]

Moral of the story? Don't cut your cats off and then sit in your running car for hours with the windows up.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

I think they said the exhaust "leak" or whatever it was, was between the engine and exhaust system, so in the engine bay where it could get sucked in near hvac filters/intake.

 

[bikrboy128]

Nikki Willis, Mr Putt's friend, was also found dead in the car

dude died in the friend zone too. rip

 

[sickmint79]

were they just letting it warm up or boofing or what? seems surprising that both would pass out at the same time and that one of them wouldn't do something like open a door but i suppose someone may not know what is going on anyway and your brain is definitely not working well once you are at that point.

 

[Eagle]

Dude's name was Mr Putt and he drove a Fiesta? Lulz

RIP

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

I know its a fiesta and all but hand tight exhaust manifolds or whatever he had on there HAD to have caused a huge sound red flag?

brb going to test by loosening all my header bolts

 

[DanJ]

I worked with a kid back in the day who did some exhaust work to his caprice station wagon . Carbon monoxide leaked into the car and he fell asleep while driving and crashed into a cement bridge. Guy lived but has his jaw wired shut for awhile.

 

[Mook]

Thread title had me confused until I actually entered.

 

[Gone_2022]

I assume a tune or something may have played a part as well. Or they sat there for a long ass time. Even without cats new cars are still pretty clean.

We did a small study back in college, since back in the day a good way to kill yourself without pain was to sit in the garage with the car running. Well my teacher estimated based on the tailpipe emissions of today's cars you would have to sit in the garage for nearly 12 hours or more before it would become lethal. Lol.

Then we measured my heads cam, no cat camaro at idle. And he estimated 15-30 minutes you would be totally blacked out. ROFL

 

[CMNTMXR57]

This shit could've just as easily have happened with a stock vehicle too. So it doesn't need to be "souped up"...

I can't count how many GM trucks came in with blown exhaust manifold gaskets over the years. But other than just hearing the ticking from valvetrain noise and blow-by of the exhaust gasses themselves, no one perished.

 

[Gone_2022]

This shit could've just as easily have happened with a stock vehicle too. So it doesn't need to be "souped up"...

I can't count how many GM trucks came in with blown exhaust manifold gaskets over the years. But other than just hearing the ticking from valvetrain noise and blow-by of the exhaust gasses themselves, no one perished.

It would have taken a painfully long time though. I mean a 15-20 min warm up would not be near enough to knock you out

 

[Gone_2022]

Oh and rip friend zone kid.... we hardly knew Yee

 

[CMNTMXR57]

It would have taken a painfully long time though. I mean a 15-20 min warm up would not be near enough to knock you out

Agreed. Just trying to say, it doesn't need to be modified with a hack job of an install to be bad. Yet, this article is focused at the evils of modifying.

 

[Flyn]

Seems the articles always go after the mods as being the cause.

Hit a tree? Must have been racing.

Blew a tire and crashed? Must have been the loud exhaust.

IMO, driver error is the problem more than 90% of the time.

 

[Blood on Blood]

RIP