not sure if this is the right place to put this but what do you guys think of flame throwers? i havent seen them being talked about at all in the forum so i thought i'd bring it up.

 

it was brought up a while back.

on a hot rod [sm=smiley20.gif] on a civic [sm=smiley21.gif], but thats just me.

 

The only way to make it work is to take the cat out. In hot rods, you cut the spark to a couple of the cylinders and then turn some spark plugs on in your tailpipe. You only have 4 cylinders, so cutting the spark to 2 cylinders might kill the motor. I don't think its a good idea. We tried to convince our shop teacher to let us put flame throwers on the project car (67 Mustang) but he said no.

 

Doesnt add power, why bother?

 

IMO the only way you're worthy to be having flames coming out the back of your exhaust is if you're car is powerful enough to do that (and youre willing to spend enough $$ to pay for the wasted race feul)

 

i dont think it works on fuel injected cars

 

it does but you have to be running very rich. it happens because the car is running rich and it accumulates in the exhaust pipes. then during a huge burst of acceleration, the gasses from the engine heat up (makes sense) and it ignites the feul from sheer heat.

 

You could have a propane tank or another combustable gas in the trunk and run the gas to the tail pipes and ignite the gas with the plugs. That might be a little dangerous.

 

The flame itself is cool but ruining your back bumper and muffler isn't. My car runs rich and pops every now and then...there's soot all over my bumper and the end of my GTII muffler is burned, stay away from flames as much as possible imo.