Anybody still do this? I went to a classic car show last weekend and a bunch of old hotrods ignited their exhaust fumes when they were leaving the parking lot. Anybody do this to newer rides, like maybe a Lightning? I would love the look on someones face when you flame the whole side of their car at a stoplight....If so, how do you do it? Is the exhaust rich enough to light it off w/o any other mods?

Just a thought.

 

Search the web for "Flame Throwers". most people runa fuel line to their exhaust and insert a spark plug and coil. There are some kits out there. The biggest problem with doing it to a L is that you need the pipes to stick out away from the body to keep the flames from burning the paint and melting the ground effects at idle, while idling the flames just roll out and up against the vehicle.

 

This is funny. A bud and I where just joking around about this the other day.

Can you imagine what the starting line judge at the track would think when you roast his ****, just when the third yellow, lights completely?

I guess you would have to request the right lane at all times.


Rocks

 

My buddys old led sled buick has them. The flames them self have never run up the rear of his car. HE shoots the flames and they pretty much diapear and never have harmed his paint.


But if you to make the flame brighter get a bens-o-matic propane torch canister and run lines from i to the exhaust. Makes the flames much cooler.


I was thinking about doing it to my L. Heck my bassani tips stick out far enough to be safe. Besides if your not breaking stuff your not having fun!

 

i never understood the fasination with doing this . .. how did this get started?

 

Not sure of the year but im gonna guess around the 50's it was the 'cool' thing to do i guess

 

i don't think you need to run a fuel source, the spark burns the unburned fuel in your exhaust.

once you cut the spark the flame goes out.

on older cars, they simply screwed a sparkpug in to the tail pipe hooked up to a switch, when they wanted flames they flipped the swithc, and turned it off by turning off the spark.

NOW A DAYS, Im not sure if your car runs rich enough to ignite the flame.


personally, I think it is ony appropriate for OLD cars, the Ricers that have it on their honda's look stupid.

 

exactly....

 

The Movie Grease....Go Greased Lightning!!! LOL

 

They used to do it by turning off the spark to the engine so that the motor keeps turning over (when in gear and rolling down the street) and pumping out vaporized gas that would have been ignited in the cylinders but is now pumping out the exhaust. The spark to the engine would then be diverted to a spark plug at the exit of the exhaust and ignite the gas mixture. Not sure you can even mess with the spark nowadays but there are kits out there. However, they are not as impressive as the pure gas mix was.

 

Check this movie of one out-
http://www.transamcountry.com/downlo...yrd/flames.mpg

real cool

 

Completely untrue. As Florida-F150 already pointed out, this use to be done by stopping the engine spark and allowing fuel to pass through the engine without igniting. This would then get dumped into the exhaust system.

If you tried that today, you would ruin your O2 sensor, catalytic converter and god knows what else.

-Don

 

I think it is a matter of size rather than vintage. Ricers are too small for this to look cool. Imagine a Lightning with side exhaust on both sides shooting flames. I think that would be pretty cool. It would look like a top fuel dragster

-Don

 

Yea running raw fuel down through your exhaust sytem would be torure on new cars. Cats and O2 sensors would be ruined.

 

It is how the original tailgate parties got started. Everyone sitting around roasting hotdogs from the flame throwers.

Many moons ago there were some guys sitting around roasting some marshmallows and when the guy in the car hit the gas the flame shot hard and blew the marshmallow off onto some other guys head, set his hair on fire.

That chit sticks like napalm, needless to say that is when shaved shinny heads came into fashion…