camkos10101 Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 so i was watching TRUCKS today on TNN and they put a flame thrower kit on an old truck. it seems simple enuf. what you have to do is get rid of the CAT and run an ign. coil off the battery with a toggle switch in the car. install a spark plug 4-6"s from teh end of the exaughst and connect to the coil. taking the CAT out will allow all the fumes to burn on contact with the spark generated by the ign. coil thru the spark plug. its that easy. im gunna try it, but heres a Q....how hard will it be to cut out the cat and replace iwt with a straight pipe? and will it make my exaughst much louder? Quote
godofthunder Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 I remember seeing this on the list sometime before. I dont think it is possible with our cars, but im not sure. I cant really remember the reason why though. I think there was a kit thought you could by that would possibly work jon Quote
ctx46 Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 not hard..... and yes your exaust will be a little louder and it will reak!!!!! also something to think about, the ass end of your car is plastic...... 8) Quote
OldsmoBeast Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 i think you might also want to turn it off from time to time.....u know.....like when you're stopped near some dry leaves or driving on grass for whatever reason......or if u have little kids standing behing the car before you start it...muahahaha. I heard that there was another way to do that but this was a REAL flamethrower (They use them for car-jacking security in south africa or something) --> the idea is that you get another windshield washer spray system and install it somewhere in your car and have a button switch it on and off from inside. then you place the jets on the sides of the car, or wherever you want the flames to come out of, in your case the exhaust.....and then using your extra ign. sys, you put the plugs in the end of the tube by the jets, or just after the jets. u'd have to find a way to secure them. then fill the spray tank with gas or something flammable and away u go. there's obviously a lot to condsider here and i'm not a pro in any way.....I always wondered though: with this setup, wouldn't the spark ignite all the gas and then like blow up the spray tank? hmmm.....this is what i get for listening to my 9th grade crazy ass science teacher Quote
Jeorge Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 I too Seen Trucks. THe Kit they used would not work with our cars because we are Fuel Injected and Run Multiple coils. The way that one works is it. you Rev to 3500+ rpm Press button Gounds out ign coil and sends the power to the Rear Coils. then you pump the gas it then Sends the gas down your pipe to the end where it then Lights with the spark PLugs. what I would say is go to a Ricer Forum and say you want to do that on your civic and ask how to mount it. I know there is a way to hook up a safety valve and a gas line to it so the gas is added to the exhaust and the coil is not gounded on you engine. I seen how to do it about 3 years ago but cant remember how now....... but the other parts are the same. I would say Just check out the Ricer forums. and then bring the info back here. Quote
lolumz34 Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 another way that I've seen it done... Install a small bottle of propane in the truck and have it leak into the exaust... you can keep your exaust system 100% intact...when you want to flame on...open the bottle a little bit...and ignite with a spark plug that you have to mount on the pipe.. you will get blue flame that comes out straight... Quote
camkos10101 Posted January 12, 2003 Author Report Posted January 12, 2003 It shoudl work on our cars regardless of the efi and such. internal combustion engines arent very economical. as for the plastic rear, its ok, my exaughst stickes out about 2.5-3"s from the top of my rear bumper Quote
gimp19 Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 I saw the same show and they wont work with cat. converters that is the only restriction that he mentioned. Quote
OldsmoBeast Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 this is all good and well, but why would you want flames coming out of the ass of your car? it won't make your car faster......maybe just gayer...but yah ok, none of my business. Quote
camkos10101 Posted January 13, 2003 Author Report Posted January 13, 2003 Just somthing different to have man....does your car really have to go over 100 mph? not really, but its fun. Quote
OldsmoBeast Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 agreed, but isn't having a 12 year-old 10-second car different enough? if my sedan could run 10 seconds, fuck i'd drop out of school. Quote
J Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 do a search some guy found the kit for our cars, but like it has been said before our cars DO NOT have chrome bumpers are we all know and melting your bumper off wouldn;t be fun Quote
zeroburn Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 what i have seen and what i have seen on my car is that if the car is running very rich. then you will get some flames. when my exhaust gets hot and im on it real hard i can get a nice blue flame out the back. Just my 2 cents Quote
godofthunder Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 We used to shoot flams out the side of my dads truck (had no cat, no mufflers, and custom side exit exhaust right after the cab) by running some racing fuel (112 octane) and putting it in 1st gear, and revving up. It would shoot a 2 foot flame out the pipes Jon Quote
RedZMonte Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 there are kits you can buy that make it do that. i would not recomend it... too damn ricy i think RedZ Quote
89BuickRegalGS Posted January 17, 2003 Report Posted January 17, 2003 My first reply in this section of the forum! This months Automobile magazine has a kit in the shopping section for flamethrowing exhaust. Looks simple and straightforward. I believe its $125 for a single exhaust setup and $200 for a dual exhaust setup. Quote
IBuiltMine-o1oo Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 On my old cutlass (carbed) i just put a switch that diverted power from my hei to a coil in the rear. The pints were taken care of by one of those trucker fans ( imagine how fast the points open and close on a brush motor!!) so the plug fired a million times a second, and all i would do is rev it to about 3500 rpm, hold it steady, and push the button...about the time i would have to hit the button off to keep the engine from dying it would shoot out a few puffs about 3 or 4 feet long! It would literally rock the car! But then agina i had a 10.5 :1 compression 1968 350 rocket in my 84 Delta 4 door! Vintage cats 2 inch single exhast and still flames! the bad thing of it this way is it dilutes your oil! Now my 97 cutlass is another story. I have a fleetguard etherinjection system, and one of the 1 lb propane bottles mounted up. itll be better then my delta! If someone wants cheap parts, and info email me .. SEAN! http://eatmyflames.com/index.html Quote
IBuiltMine-o1oo Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Hey dan...how ya been??!!! sorry...im in the midsts of building a bigger better flame thrower, and im digging up old stff!! LOL! So i guess people jump your ass when you make unnecisary topics, but also when you actually use the search and find and old post, huh? I replied to another old one, and someone popped me on that too. Quote
sl3196 Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Yeah they tend to jump on ya. Oh well, you had good info so not bad. Quote
IBuiltMine-o1oo Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 ill have some pics to put up here pretty soon, and EVERYONE loves pics!!! Especially flames! God knows this site loves flameS!! HA! LOL! Quote
Rocketman Posted December 27, 2005 Report Posted December 27, 2005 You will need something to pulse the power to the rear coil, weather you use the stock wire and kill the power to the engine's coil, or you use a motor like mentioned above. You can even build a special circuit for it, and its not too involved. Just grounding it to the battery will not work because of the nature of electromagnetics. As for flamethrowers, I have built a few. I plan on putting one in my other car, but in the meantime this is a standalone one I built with a friend last summer: more pics and instructions: http://www.rocketlabs.technoid.ca/flamethrower.htm And no, a tank filled with flammables wont explode because there is no way for the flame to get into it. There is no oxygen in the fuel line to make it burn (fire needs oxygen...) and thusly cannot travel up a tube filled with liquid Quote
Supreme Cutlass Posted December 27, 2005 Report Posted December 27, 2005 http://www.rocketlabs.technoid.ca/flamethrower.htm ...ever been flagged as a terrorist? Quote
Rocketman Posted December 27, 2005 Report Posted December 27, 2005 No sir. Does liking fire make me a terrorist? Quote
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