Re: shooting flames out the tail pipe?

["John Van Vuren" <veedublu@prod.net>]

>> Just curious. how would one shoot flames out the tail pipe? Not that i
want
>> to.. ;-)  but.. just curious..


>  fuel pump hooked into the exhaust with a spark plug to ignite it. at
>least that's the way they used to do it in the old days


Well, that's not exactly right....  this is the way it was explained to me:

The fuel is provided simply by pulling the manual choke until the engine
will hardly run due to being too rich (no fuel pumps involved)

A spark plug is mounted in the tailpipe (s).  The tricky part is how do you
provide spark to the plug?   An old Ford Model T ignition coil just provides
a continuous spark, no exterior points (or hall sensor, hehe) necessary.
These Ford coils are just little wooden boxes with contact screws on the
top.

I used to produce large fireballs out the exhaust of a carbureted Toyota by
running it to near redline in 1st or 2nd gear, turning off the key (while
leaving the clutch engaged), pumping the gas several times, then turning the
key back on.  This was referred to as a "key bang" and got plenty of
attention when you lit up the whole block :)   It was hell on the muffler
though!

John

lotsa stuff
http://www.prod.net/jvanvuren


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