Touring Car Exhaust Flame "pop".
Discussion
Any idea how I can get my vette to do this? When you let off the accelerator on a touring car, you get a little "flash" off flame, which just looks awesome.
As I have no silencers on my vette, it burbles and pops when I change gear or cruise on no-gas. I'd like to get this look without ending up like the "Batman Jet-Car" flames from "The Fast and the Furious".
Anyone?
As I have no silencers on my vette, it burbles and pops when I change gear or cruise on no-gas. I'd like to get this look without ending up like the "Batman Jet-Car" flames from "The Fast and the Furious".
Anyone?
I think this will be 'cos your vette will have a return valve on the fuel system that everytime you let off the gas it opens and returns the fuel to the fuel tank rather than bunging it down the exhaust.
You could do this with your vette, but it ain't gonna help your fuel consumption having 8 injectors worth of fuel pumping thru the engine regardless of whether you are accelerating!
Perhaps you should go for the '50s option of a flame thrower exhaust system.
You could do this with your vette, but it ain't gonna help your fuel consumption having 8 injectors worth of fuel pumping thru the engine regardless of whether you are accelerating!
Perhaps you should go for the '50s option of a flame thrower exhaust system.
Ho Ho, knew someone would mention my car!
My Callaway has no cats and "flames on" quite convincingly if you give it quite a bit of throttle and bang it into the next gear.
For max visual entertainment though it's best to wind it right up (with the old L98 engine that aint many revs, less than 5,000 anyway) and rapidly back off the throttle.
This also can make quite a startling sound - rather similar I'd imagine to a driveshaft coming through the floor.
I think it helps if your car is manual as you can be more brutal with it.
Bear in mind Callaways have 2 extra injectors so under boost it is really flowing some fuel so backing off must result in a rather large amount of unburnt fuel spitting out the exhaust.
I'd also imagine that there is a very real possibility that one day I'm gonna blow the exhaust off the car!!!
My Callaway has no cats and "flames on" quite convincingly if you give it quite a bit of throttle and bang it into the next gear.
For max visual entertainment though it's best to wind it right up (with the old L98 engine that aint many revs, less than 5,000 anyway) and rapidly back off the throttle.
This also can make quite a startling sound - rather similar I'd imagine to a driveshaft coming through the floor.
I think it helps if your car is manual as you can be more brutal with it.
Bear in mind Callaways have 2 extra injectors so under boost it is really flowing some fuel so backing off must result in a rather large amount of unburnt fuel spitting out the exhaust.
I'd also imagine that there is a very real possibility that one day I'm gonna blow the exhaust off the car!!!
malc350 said:
Mate of mine removed the cats on his Ferrari 360 - definitely recommended for proper exhaust note.
MoT tester's will bring back hanging if you put a post-93 car in for an MoT.
Only thing you could do is put the car through the test with cats and remove them afterwards...
Hmmm... I would imagine that could get VERY expensive...
Unless, of course, someone makes some kind of detatchable cat?
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