You can do it pretty easy. Just gotta drill a hole in your exhaust pipe and place a spark plug in there. Then use a rich gasoline. Its probably not the best idea though because
A) You'll get pulled over the second a cop sees flames shooting out your tailpipe
B) You'll be scorching the bumper of those behind you
Originally Posted by 00accord44:
You can do it pretty easy. Just gotta drill a hole in your exhaust pipe and place a spark plug in there. Then use a rich gasoline. Its probably not the best idea though because
A) You'll get pulled over the second a cop sees flames shooting out your tailpipe
B) You'll be scorching the bumper of those behind you
C) You'll melt your own bumper in a week
A little more to it than that...
On a carburated car, you do wire a spark plug about 6 inches from exhaust exit, and run it to a switch which sparks the plug. Then as you rev up the motor, you will get more unburned gasoline in the exhaust, thus igniting it and shooting flame. But its very dangerous both to the motor and the car.
On a car with a ECU onboard, it will destroy your engine to put a traditional flamethrower setup on it. If you want the same effect, hook up a propane tank and wire it through the exhaust pipe. [Reply]
My old subaru was carbed, I would roll at about 30, shut the ignition off, count to 10, turn it back on, nice loud backfire and a 6-8 foot flame out the exhaust. This does do damage to the exhaust after a while. [Reply]
My civic has a problem with the exhaust valves so it blows fuel out the cylender during compression...so when I drive it hard (after the exhaust is hot) I get a pop and about a 3 foot flame from the muffler between gears. It looks kinda cool at night but it blows soot all over my bumper and it cant be good on my way expensive cat-back. [Reply]
if you watch alot of japanese tuner vehicles, they pretty much all shoot flames. i agree that on a honda or something, its worthless, but on a turbocharged monster, its an awesome site... [Reply]