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Some cars will simply ignite the exhaust on their own if you're running it hard enough, as evidenced by the flames you see in videos like the P1, Aventador and so on. Other cars with short-ish exhausts will do it too, a friend and I were following a GT3 with decatted exhaust that made little baseball size blue flames in the exhaust outlets. I'd imagine a turbo car can easily be tuned to be overly rich and put out ignition-worthy amounts of fuel into the exhaust.
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edit, what ^ he said too. There's a flame tune (running pig rich), or you can setup anti-lag for a turbo setup, but I've seen most ricers/people do it the cheap way and have a switch on one of the plug leads causing that cylinder to misfire, thus throwing unburnt fuel into the exhaust and voila, throwing flames.
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Mar 1, 2014 17:59
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bung posted:The last new car I bought was a WRX and I dealt directly with the internet sales guy. That had to be the quickest and most painless deal I'd ever done. Now my wife and I have buying from Carmax and have had very good luck. Over the course of a year I had traded the WRX for a Solstice, wife traded a Saab 9-3 Aero for a Camaro SS, and I traded the Solstice back for a Tacoma. We have always come out on the plus side on trade and I think we have gotten pretty good deals on the cars bought. I even came out on the plus side trading the Solstice back after one year. Probably helps to be paying cash and to not have a trade-in.
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Mar 1, 2014 18:37
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drukqs posted:
That might actually be the best thing about this specific trend - it creates a snowball effect of increasing terribleness the further you go from where it originated. It's going to be great.
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Mar 1, 2014 18:54
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drukqs posted:
Cargo cult ricing. I love it. (The phenomenon, not the results.  )
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Mar 1, 2014 19:28
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My old MR2 turbo had visible flames from the exhaust when it was being driven hard during shifting. It didn't have a special tune or dumb things on the exhaust, it was just extremely short and the ECU loved to dump the extra fuel from the turbo upon shifting.
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Mar 1, 2014 20:41
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FB RX-7 with a straight pipe is always a good recipe for shooting flames and in general being uncouth as hell.
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Mar 1, 2014 20:50
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Das Volk posted:Some cars will simply ignite the exhaust on their own if you're running it hard enough, as evidenced by the flames you see in videos like the P1, Aventador and so on. Other cars with short-ish exhausts will do it too, a friend and I were following a GT3 with decatted exhaust that made little baseball size blue flames in the exhaust outlets. I'd imagine a turbo car can easily be tuned to be overly rich and put out ignition-worthy amounts of fuel into the exhaust. Of course, a lot of people in the UK went with a really simple solution - small canisters of gas for camping stoves plumbed into the exhaust pipes.
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Mar 1, 2014 23:06
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InitialDave posted:I guess if you're running a blow-off valve and dumping metered air, that may be a factor as well. There are actually kits you can buy for carb'd that interupt the ignition to allow raw gas to run through, and a coil/spark plug at the end of the tail pipe to ignite it.
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Mar 1, 2014 23:12
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MetaJew posted:Is there some sort of 'flame tune' that people run that makes your car run extra rich? Or is there enough fuel in the exhaust that just having a spark source will throw flames? Some good antilag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXePkrLPWwk Although the P1 is really good at making flames the right way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1L5ShVR8w
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Mar 1, 2014 23:24
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Motorcycles are really good at it. My GSXR750 does it when I let off at high revs. Big bang - big flame out the back.
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I guess i should've mentioned that I'm aware of antilag, motorcycles, and the exotics that do it. I just meant when ricers put spark plugs in their exhaust pipes.
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Mar 2, 2014 00:27
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The ghost is coming from inside the car http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f14_1393634596
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jaegerx posted:The ghost is coming from inside the car I had a 240 do that once after I helped a friend put the rack back in his car. Turns out the lines were hooked up backwards.
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Bajaha posted:edit, what ^ he said too. That seems like it would be a recipe for having a muffler explode.
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jaegerx posted:The ghost is coming from inside the car Last time I had a problem like that was when I changed out the steering box on my '65 Plymouth & instead of disconnecting the high-side power steering hose at the nut from the male threaded receiver on the unit, I decided to undo the two bolts at the top that held this l'il metal shoe to the box. Turned out to be a proportioning valve. When I started the car it spun to full-left lock in about a half-second & the belt commenced to screaming. After I shut everything off and changed my underwear, I read up on Chrysler sliding-adjustable proportioning valves & set it properly. TL;DR: 
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I seem to remember someone in AI restoring an old Nova, couldn't figure out why it was running like garbage. Then there was an earthshattering kaboom resulting in pieces of (clogged?) exhaust all over his garage floor. vvvv Explosions really do fix everything! redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:I seem to remember someone in AI restoring an old Nova, couldn't figure out why it was running like garbage. Then there was an earthshattering kaboom resulting in pieces of (clogged?) exhaust all over his garage floor. Hi 
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That's the most underwhelming response to that sort of thing I could have imagined. Not "My ears or still ringing" or "I"m still picking bits of exhaust out of my garage floor" or even "yup, that was me"... Nope. Just "Hi "
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Mar 2, 2014 08:00
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drukqs posted:
His pussy is waiting fellas... 
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Mar 2, 2014 10:45
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In the last two weeks I have seen two late model range rovers riding around with what looks like a wrecked rear suspension. As in the gap above the wheels is non existent , crazy negative camber and no travel over bumps. The front wheels look normal. Is this some common issue with these cars? At least one of the owners had their hazards on and was looking to get off the road. That suggests to me that it was a sudden change.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:In the last two weeks I have seen two late model range rovers riding around with what looks like a wrecked rear suspension. As in the gap above the wheels is non existent , crazy negative camber and no travel over bumps. The front wheels look normal. Is this some common issue with these cars? At least one of the owners had their hazards on and was looking to get off the road. That suggests to me that it was a sudden change. Range Rovers and late model USDM LR3/Discos all have 4 corner air suspension standard. So you saw a JLR product with air suspension in its' natural habitat(i.e. suspension is completely hosed because the car got slightly damp once or something and the 3rd owner who picked the car up for 1/8th the MSRP can't afford to fix it). Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Mar 2, 2014 15:32
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Bet they tore one of the air shocks, that happens pretty regularly to those Rovers. Or the height-sensor got looked at sternly. Pictured: an L322 Rover with some sick stance courtesy of superior British engineering. 
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Friar Zucchini posted:That's the most underwhelming response to that sort of thing I could have imagined. Not "My ears or still ringing" or "I"m still picking bits of exhaust out of my garage floor" or even "yup, that was me"... Nope. Just "Hi Hi.  
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Friar Zucchini posted:That's the most underwhelming response to that sort of thing I could have imagined. Not "My ears or still ringing" or "I"m still picking bits of exhaust out of my garage floor" or even "yup, that was me"... Nope. Just "Hi Would it make you feel better to know that I'm still pulling pieces of the seat cover out of my rear end? I've still got the baffle from the muffler on a shelf in the garage. It will live there forever as a memorial to the start of this project. The car is currently without an engine or subframe. A thread should be happening in the spring once I start getting things put back together.
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Didnt someone in ai get his head crushed by his truck at one point and instead of going to hospital he started posting about it here. Or was that some sort of elaborate fakepost/something I imagined.
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I definitely remember that too, the description he gave of having his vision start to warp and darken from having his head squeezed was a bit 
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It was IAteJesus.
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I seem to remember someone getting a dose of phosgene too
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If my Neon experience is anything to go by that thing probably hasn't even been in an accident. Just a fairly normal ~10 year old Neon.
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InitialDave posted:I guess if you're running a blow-off valve and dumping metered air, that may be a factor as well. I've been meaning to attach my GoPro to the boot lid and get the exhaust nice and hot to see what happens. There's lots of popping and grumbling on overrun and such with the exhaust modified, and while I assume it's too long to ignite I'm sure it's worth checking to make sure 
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drukqs posted:His pussy is waiting fellas... You can't leave out the best one 
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Negromancer posted:You can't leave out the best one How can anyone not love this?
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Rhyno posted:How can anyone not love this? For the same reason most of us don't love those shoes they make for kangaroos or zombie repellent spray or dinosaur language translators, because it's a stupid and useless product that doesn't show off anything new or innovative and just kind of makes the car more dangerous for everybody around when the owner invariably tries to operate it on the road using a TV for a headlight.
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cormorant posted:For the same reason most of us don't love those shoes they make for kangaroos or zombie repellent spray or dinosaur language translators, because it's a stupid and useless product that doesn't show off anything new or innovative and just kind of makes the car more dangerous for everybody around when the owner invariably tries to operate it on the road using a TV for a headlight. Yeah well, you like, don't get it. Or something.
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Negromancer posted:You can't leave out the best one I was actually starting to feel bad for the guy last night like "he just doesnt know any better" then i woke up to that tgis morning -_-
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Eh, I feel like if someone spends tons of money and time on something, even if it's kind of dumb, it's at least admirable that he didn't waste that time playing video games or something. Plus the more out there "show" cars are, the better IMO. It's not going to be on the street or track so why not TVs for headlights and 49 exhaust pipes?
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Negromancer posted:You can't leave out the best one nice! almost as good as this one 
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Holdbrooks posted:nice! almost as good as this one This one's in the wrong thread though.
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Holdbrooks posted:nice! almost as good as this one this gif is my spirit animal.
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