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So I finally got my Z back together after being down for 3 or 4 months. Had the plenum off, did EGR bypass and fixed boost leaks. Got everything back together on Sunday night, started her and let her run 5 seconds or so. Yesterday, let her idle for 15 minutes or so, and found no issues, leaks, etc. After work today I decided to go for a drive to make sure everything was OK. I started her and backed down the driveway. When I went topull away and drive down the street, she would bog, but if I let off teh gas she would drive along at idle OK. I cleaned out my IACV and put on a different TPS, so figured things just needed to drive time to settle down. But, even at the end of my street 50 yards away she was still acting up. I made a left turn and drove another 50 yards. Still acting up, and I could smell fuel, so I decided to go home instead of out to the interstate. I stopped on the street in front of my driveway with the engine running, popped the hood, and got out. As I walked to the front of the car, I could see a river of fuel running from under the car to the curb! I kill the engine, grab my fire extinguisher from behind the passenger seat, and open the hood. Fuel was EVERYWHERE. Just puddles of it sitting on the plenum, the hood liner was saturated to the point fuel was just running down the hood and pouring onto the cowls. Gas was also vaporizing and smoke was rising up from the exhaust manifolds! I looked around trying to figure out how I could have so much fuel leakage, and was looking for a hose clamp that had popped of or something similar. Found nothing. Looked closer and found the culprit: The short length of fuel line running from the fuel rails to the pressure regulator had split. Basically, fuel was just pouring out onto the top of the engine as fast as the pump could pump it. The line is Goodyear fuel injection line, and only about 2 to 2.5 years old, as I replaced it when I did my TT swap. I think the blue inner liner got torn/ruptured somehow allowing the outer rubber casing to be pressurized, which then burst. Here are some pics, you can see it ruptured as I got near the bottom of my driveway backing out. Notice the size of the puddle that leaked while I came to a stop in reverse, and started to pull forward to give you an idea of the rate at which fuel was pouring out! Also, look at the size of the trail I left on the street. I don't think my little fire extinguisker would have been able to put out that much fuel if it had caught fire. Oh yeah, ignore the yard with no grass in it across the street, they took out some trees and are trying to re-seed with some grass right now. 
Mike --------------------------------------------------------
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Almost lost my Z to a fuel fire today >>> - 
