Well, all you guys were right all along. (SMH)
 

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So, this is a picture of my rear bumper, I parked my car for winter in a garage.
I started it infrequently to let it run to operating temperature, without revving
unaware completely that there was this wooden filing cabinet a little too close to my car.
I have now effectively ruined the bumper, light, and wind diffuser.

I am an idiot.
Please feel free to make fun of me and tell me what an idiot I am...
You guys always told me so. You were right.


Please be careful with your RX-7's my friends,
Otherwise shit like this will happen.

I have burned my bumper too. That one looks much better then mine did afterwards.



I will show my shame...

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This is after some touch up paint there is a hole straight through the bumper

Well that fucking sucks.

Like Cheebz said, you're not the only one who's had it happen.. I looked but I wasn't able to find any pictures of my bumper from when it got cooked in England. My tune was so rich that I'd regularly spit prolonged flames on shifts and decels. I cooked the paint clean off my bumper just above the exhaust.

Ideally you could just fix that light housing, then get a carbon fiber exhaust guard. Here's a pic where you can kinda see the one that I bought to put on my car after burning it's bumper.

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*edit* But you're still an idiot... lol

Running the car indoors is the idiot factor, not roasting the bumper. You could of killed everyone in that house.

Too bad it didn't work.


-Ted

To be fair (and I'm not defending the OP by any means) I will run my car in my garage as well. But... every time I do I have the garage door at least half way open, and prefer to have a second door to the outside open as well or air circulation.

Roger that, and I bet you don't do it with the exhaust end of the car facing an interior wall either. I do the same, but the exhaust faces an open garage door and blows outside. This knucklehead had his exhaust pipe blowing into a wood cabinet, which appears to be positioned against an interior wall.

I'm glad that I can still drive and stuff,
and that this is only cosmetic...

If I was going to re-paint my car,
it would NOT be Silver again.

The three colors I have been thinking about painting my FD are:
BMW Java Green (4/6 apex seals)
Mazda 2 Green (5/6 apex seals)
or (my favorite)
Chevrolet Synergy green (6/6 apex seals)

Does anyone have any other wicked cool green paint ideas?
or how about any other awesome colors?

Did you really just say "(4/6 apex seals)"????:icon_no2::banghead:

I like the 2002 Mustang Zinc Yellow. Normally I hate yellow (probably overload from when every idiot trying to get his car in a magazine used to paint his car yellow), but that shade just makes me hot for some reason. :suspect:

Snakeskin Green off the 2010/11 ACR

OF course Chris comes in with a ACR color :lol:

Forget green, go for Rx8 white water pearl :D

And I am part of the burnt bumper crew as well. I had to cut off the lower half of mine to make it work, it was melted so badly. You can see what it looks like here. You will have to use google if you want to see what the 8 rear normally looks like
http://www.rotarycarclub.com/rotary_...0&d=1364397935

who HASN'T burned a bumper is the better question.

I've done a lot of stupid stuff. Haven't burnt my bumper.

come on, everyone has shot a fireball or 2. :)

my single has a tendency to want to ride on the bumper skirt and of course it is a little bit melted by now. i should redo it but of course customer cars take precedence over my own.

i don't like tips sticking out beyond the bumper because it looks assy but it does protect the plastic.

do you think those downward firing/facing "dolphin tail" mufflers help any in regards to bumper life extension?

they may help to some small extent, it really all depends how far the tip sits away from the end of the bumper. the FD has more problems with this than most because the end cap curves out after the muffler.

best method is to just tune it properly with either lean decel or decel fuel cut and do not allow the muffler tip to touch the bumper skin/guard.

a few fireballs on the freeway after some pulls won't hurt anything.

Me. Buy a 1stGen, all metal, fireballs not a problem. :)

but the downside. . . . you then have a 1st gen


:rofl: :lol:


:D :D

BLASPHEMY!!! Get Thee Hence Satan!

All you FD's and your fireballs...

I almost burned my FD to the ground a few years ago. I was deflooding and forgot to pull the EGI fuse, thus the spark plug wires were still sparking. All the plugs were pulled and I was flushing the gas from the engine. Had a large towel to catch the fuel as I cranked.... Then.. WOOOSH, the towel goes up like a fuckin firework. It took about 20 seconds to spring to the fire extinguisher and put it out. Ultimately, a crispied pieces of harness and a little cleanup.

I was VERY lucky. My FD was in the garage when this happened. Ultimately, it could have burned my house down. I took a long break after that dumby move.....

wow. thank your lucky stars. . . it deffo could have been worse than just a burnt FD. on the plus side, you (or myself) won't make that mistake after you sharing with us. thanks for the heads up, man!