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Offline forsh

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #10 on: 19 August 2012, 09:18 »
How can you see your exhaust tailpipe from the drivers seat?

rear view mirror ???

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #11 on: 20 August 2012, 19:33 »
How can you see your exhaust tailpipe from the drivers seat?

rear view mirror ???

Mates behind me?  :grin:
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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #12 on: 20 August 2012, 20:07 »
ive been told the same about my mk2, heel toeing on the downshifts and my mate said the exhaust was glowing orange inside from flames licking out.
(not glowing metal, just the glow from the flames haha)

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #13 on: 20 August 2012, 21:21 »
I think we need to see some pics :cool:

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #14 on: 20 August 2012, 21:28 »
we bought a VR6 for bens conversion last year

that was glowing orange too (i was behind it) then it spat out loads of bits of fire.. these later turned out  to be the innards of the CAT

  


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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #15 on: 20 August 2012, 21:51 »
Just putting this out there..... How many high performance (not including track tuned) cars do you see popping flames.

It's NOT good for the engine, or exhaust.

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #16 on: 20 August 2012, 21:59 »

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #17 on: 20 August 2012, 22:03 »
Ah yes, TVR, the pinnacle of high performance.....

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #18 on: 20 August 2012, 22:08 »
Aventador, i'd say thats pretty pinnacle.

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Re: Fire popping exhaust
« Reply #19 on: 20 August 2012, 22:20 »
Maybe I should have been clearer.

A car should not spit flames when being driven, as it does and will damage the engine. Bore wash, injector lacquering etc. As cool as it may look, there is a reason these cars have auto timing advance/retard, fuel mapping etc.

It will give a flame when revved to a high rev range then cut off as the exhaust port will stay open to scavenge the charge out of the cylinder as it thinks it's going to require a lot of cleaner air. On most videos you will notice it takes a while for the car to pop a flame (if it does at all) because (as has already been mentioned) it's pumping non required fuel into the cylinder and doesn't have enough time to do a complete burn.

Roughly translated - when being a tool. :smiley: