Fireworks under dash

I had something like that happen to me. I have a Lokar throttle cable and while I was on Brice road at the Mopar Nationals I goosed the throttle and then the whole car went black. I'm not saying the lights went out I mean no power at all. I immediately got out of the car and looked underneath at the cable that goes to my battery in the trunk and it looked fine. That's when someone yelled out you've got a fire under the hood!!!!! I looked through the hood scoop and I could see the fire. I got my screwdriver to open the dezus fasteners I had all but one off when someone almost snapped my hood trying to lift it up before I had all of the fasteners off. I looked and saw that it was that big of a fire so I reached into my interior and grabbed a bottle of water that I had but before I could use it Smokey the Bear decided to use his brand new fire extinguisher that he got for Christmas what a mess.......and the it started to rain LOL. Turns out that that braided steel cable was rubbing through the main bulkhead power and naturally on the WRONG side of the fusable link. The last thing my wife said to me before I left was "do you want to take this electrical tape? " I almost didn't take it but I just threw it in my box. I used all of it taping up the bulkhead wires. Thought I was out of the woods until I tried to start the engine. I went to pump the gas and the pedal went to the floor. It seems that cable made ground at the pedal and fried the little ball off of the end. I tried everything to attach that cable (almost blew the engine up using small vise grips. In the end I used a small turnbuckle. I only was able to get about a quarter pedal travel and it was STIFF but it got be back to the hotel. I bought another harness at the track the next day.