Shooting Flames from Exaust Pipes

[Big Green]

I got bored the other day and was wondering if I would be able to make flames shoot out my exaust pipes. I've seen this done before but never on an explorer, I wanted to be the first. I tried to do some research on it but cant find much, so can someone explain how to do this and if there are any kits out there to buy. Thanks


:fire: Scott :fire:

 

[Alec]

You need a small pump either in the tank or branching off the main fuel line and an atomizer in the tailpipe, and a sparkplug bunged into the tailpipe downstream.

 

[JamminG4Jim]

There's another way to do it without messing with the fuel lines.

*****DISCLAIMER*****
The mod listed below is to be done at your own risk! I blew up a muffler cuz I left it on too long!
*****DISCLAIMER*****

Parts needed:
1 Spark Plug
1 Old style ignition Coil
1 Toggle switch
6 Foot Spark plug Cable
1"X1" chunk of 1/8in steel plate

What you do is:
1...Notch the end of your tailpipe 1"X1"
2...Drill and thread a hole in the Steel plate to screw in the spark plug. Weld this into the 1X1 Notch.
3...Mount the Coil in the rear cargo compartment and run the MINUS lead to ground.
4...Run a lead from the POSITIVE terminal on the coil to a toggle switch. Run another lead from the toggle switch (fused, of course) to your battery.
5...Run the spark plug cable from the coil to the spark plug in the tailpipe.

At a normal idle this doesn't work too well, but when your rapidly accelerating you flip the toggle switch to energize the coil, which fires the spark plug, which ignites any unburned gas in the exhaust!!!!

Roar's like a lion,too!!!! Just make sure you only use it for a short duration (see disclaimer above!) as the flames will eventually travel up the tail pipe and cause some major damage if left on too long!!!!!

Yes, the plug needs to be changed very frequently due to the carbon buildup, but if you change plugs and keep the old ones for this purpose you'll have an ample supply!!!!

Anybody else ever done this?

Jim

 

[Slick]

Is this legal???

 

[JamminG4Jim]

Nope!

Cops really frown on stuff that distracts other drivers.

But:

The Chicks love it!!!!!!

At least they did "way back when" when I was a lad.

Jim

 

[TheMattDaddy]

I saw a Supra w/ that once. It could shoot flames maybe 15 feet behind it! Talk about an attention grabber.. that'll get people talking

 

[ChuckyD]

Friend has it on his Stang... i think its freakin great...by the way.. dont get to close or you wont have any leg hair left...lol, ive seen that happen too....lol

 

[mrboyle]

Flame throwers usually only work on carburated vehicles that don't run catalitic converters. Fuel injected/ cat equipped vehicles generally don't have enough fuel in the exhaust to make this work. If they do, something is seriously wrong with your vehicle and your cat is going to fail very soon

 

[99explorer5.0]

how about if i just stuck a spark plug at the end of my motorcycles tail pipe? would that work?

 

[ChuckyD]

thats saying you have functioning cats.

 

[nosaj122081]

Like the other poster said, its hard/impossible with fuel injection and cats. With a carb you have to close up the choke to load the pipes up, or have your mix said waaay too rich, which would make the engine run like crap. With fuel injection its more due to the cam's overlap, gotta run a big cam.
FYI-Non-turbo RX-7's do this REALLY easy, its not uncommon to see an RX-7 shooting flames.

 

[aldive]

Go to the drag races at night and watch the pipes on a top fueler....

 

[nosaj122081]

Drag cars (not necessarily nitromethane or alcohol cars, I have friends that have gas cars that do the same thing) run such agressive cams that the exhaust valves are opening during the ingnition, and they have a smaller LSA.

 

[Alec]

Due to the fact that our Explorers are fuel injected and setup to run stoichiometrically, I suggested the addition of a small fuel atomizer to provide the plug with combustable material.