Also posted this on the "other" forum, but figured i'd post this here as well since not everyone frequents both.
Add another to the gp engine fire list. Around 6PM today, i got back from taking my dad to pickup his new car (67 lemans, very nice car btw). About 5 minutes later as we are checking out his new car my mom tells me she sees smoke coming from under the hood of my car (99 GT). I look over and sure enough smoke is coming out pretty good. I run over and pop the hood and the engine cover is on fire and melting. I ran in the house and got a big container and filled it with water, ran out and poured it one the engine and pulled the engine cover off. As i was doing that my mom ran and asked the neighbor if they had a fire extinguisher since we don't (they did). And the neighbor came out and sprayed it with the cover off so it got everything.
Got VERY lucky that i caught it when i did. The plug wires are gone, the oil dipstick melted off, coolant reservoir cap melted some along with that red piece on the fuse box cover, oil cap has melted engine cover all over it but doesn't look like it melted down. The wires and everything appear intact, surprisingly. The fire appears to have started above the front valve cover between it and the UIM. Probably one of the injector o-rings on one of the front three injectors? My front valve cover gasket did have a small leak which i planned to fix this weekend, but it doesn't appear that any oil that leaked on the manifold caused the fire as i guess is the case with some gtps?
Very glad the fire was spotted and put out early before any major damage is done. Will try to have pics up tomorrow, the only pictures i have right now are crappy cell phone pics (which im not even sure how u get cell phone pics on a computer).