Re: shooting flames out the tail pipe?

["Zach Vrooman" <zach@discover-net.net>]

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

</snip>

John forgot the second method. I won't go into great detail about it, but I
will say it involves cheap, greasy burritos, a book of matches, and being
half drunk with nothing better to do. Not that I'd know about this, of
course.....

<scirocco content>

Can anyone tell me why my 'rocc won't start and run unless i hold the gas
pedal to the floor?? I can't figure it out, and I gotta do something with
the damn car, as the registration expires at the end of the month, and I
gotta do something with the thing. If you have the gas pedal anywhere but to
the floor, it won't start, and the damn thing floods out. I'm puzzled. It's
an '86 8v, BTW.

Thanks.

Zach
86 8v
89 S10
91 S15 (lowered 3", hell yeah)





-----Original Message-----
From: John Van Vuren <veedublu@prod.net>
To: Foxx (in a box) <foxxinabox@core.com>; Winggee <winggee@hotmail.com>
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Sunday, October 08, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: shooting flames out the tail pipe?


>
>
>>  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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