# 88 Fireo potential?

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [September 30, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/88-fireo-potential/36223 "2007-09-30T20:44:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drexial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Drexial](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Drexial)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/88-fireo-potential/36223/33 "2008-01-16T14:30:03Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> Couple ways.
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> 1. On early years they had an insulation on the firewall that could come loose, fall onto the manifold, and catch on fire. Fixed via recall.
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> 2. They shipped a whole bunch of iron duke 4 bangers with faulty connecting rods. When one of those fails at high rpm a big hole gets punched in the block, oil and antifreeze hit the manifold, big fire.
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> And of course there was your typical GM coverup, refusal to recall etc etc.

They saw it as a small number with only 260 reported fires…that doesn’t say more connecting rods didn’t fail. But they didn’t feel the cost of pay offs were higher then the cost of a recall.

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