Blackwing Mods: Fire Extinguisher

I've always liked to carry a fire extinguisher in my vehicles. I was able to find a bracket that mounted to the passenger seat rails for my 2007 Z06 but I couldn't find anything I liked for a CT5. In the end I designed my own.

I took some measurements from the car and used claude to generate a dxf (AutoCAD drawing exchange format) file. This was straight forward and minor adjustments were easy to implement. Here's a claude generated mechanical drawing.

Once I was happy with the design I submitted it to sendcutsend.com. Laser cut and bent from 0.188" thick HRPO A36/1008 mild steel, one bracket cost less than $100 and this included shipping, tapping the bracket holes, de-burring, and powder coating. The bracket weighs in at 3.14 lbs.


Bracket	Installed

The seats are attached using M10 X 1.50 X 30 mm bolts that have a 5 mm leadin without threads. To maintain thread engagement I replaced these with M10 X 1.50 X 35 mm bolts. I also used washers to provide some protection to the awesome powder coating finish.

The extinguisher is an Amerex 385TS and the bracket is attached to the "shelf" with 1/4-28 X 1/4" hex button head screws. It weighs 5.2 lbs and uses Halotron 1, an environmentally friendly clean agent that does not leave residue like Halon.