doing something dumb for fun
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i just wanted to know if anybody out there knows how to dfo that thing where you put a spark plug to the exhuast pipe and make it light up, my freind and i want to try it on his omni i just recently removed my spark plugs so we want to have some fun.
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My dad always tells me about how he did that when he was a kid. I don;t know specific details, but i'm not so sure it would work because modern cars don't let as much unburned gas through. Now that i think about it, i saw something about that on tv ( on "Trucks" i think), and if i remember correctly, they sprayed some fuel in the pipe somehow. Anways the moral of this story is that it would be a lot of work. But you could probably look up that tv show that i saw it on. I am pretty sure it was on TNN's Trucks. Good luck.
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Yeah... modern FI cars would require an injector inthe tailpipe, not a plug! But, if you fabbed up something, with like a Justy injector (what is it, like 90cc/min?
) it might work!
) it might work!
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I believe you're right, it was Trucks on TNN. The old way of doing it was to just weld a bung into the exhaust pipe about 2 inches from the end and install a plug with a basic coil to fire it. Then, you revved the engine and pulled the manual choke to 'force' more gas into the engine. The excess fuel passed through and was fired by the plug in the pipe.
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Originally posted by Bagin,DVS
what do you mean a 2 step rev limiter?
what do you mean a 2 step rev limiter?
i saw an ad in Sport Compact Car (the most recent one, with the 2f2f cars in it) for a kit to do that with 20ft flames for $125. didnt say how it worked or anything, but you might want to check that out and find out how they did it.
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on a newer car, fuel injected not carbereated, can you turn up how much fuel goes into the engine? i do not think you can but, is there a qay to run it rich, like a carberated engine.
one other thing i thought of, say you get this flame movin, once it ignites, what will stop it, won't it keep burnin on the end of the pipe?
one other thing i thought of, say you get this flame movin, once it ignites, what will stop it, won't it keep burnin on the end of the pipe?
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