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Old 10-28-2010, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by turbobenz View Post
ive also heard a co2 fire extinguisher works the best
I'm sure that it works - however putting ice cold gas (a gas under pressure will cool under expansion) into a hot engine may induce metal fatigue - so I would argue that this could be borderline unsafe...
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