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Title: Flame Thrower
Post by: rustybus on March 07, 2005, 02:15:13 PM: I was thinking of putting a flame thrower on my oval. The old school way I have every thing I need including a model \"A\" buzz coil. Any one else done this before ? Is there any do's and don'ts I should know about. B) Yes I know it is illegal. :ph34r:
Thanks
Chris
Title: Flame Thrower
Post by: Shane on March 07, 2005, 03:14:37 PM: Don't

stick your face close to the flame :huh:
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Post by: James Buchan on March 07, 2005, 04:34:42 PM: Are you talking about a spark plug in your exhaust?
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Post by: Stephan Schmidt on March 07, 2005, 05:32:19 PM: Quote
Are you talking about a spark plug in your exhaust?
I was thinking the same thing
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Post by: Matt on March 07, 2005, 05:44:25 PM: What else would he be talkin about? basket weavin?
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Post by: Shane on March 07, 2005, 08:03:42 PM: I thought we were talking about Bar-B-queing??? :huh:
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Post by: Needles on March 07, 2005, 09:35:16 PM: Quote
Don't

stick your face close to the flame :huh:
'Don't YOU mean, hair...close to the flame' :lol:
Title: Flame Thrower
Post by: rustybus on March 08, 2005, 01:22:47 AM: Quote
Are you talking about a spark plug in your exhaust?
Yes I will be putting a spark plug in the exuast. There is a trick to get a flame without cheating with a propane injection . Besides playing with fire is more fun than basket weaving
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Post by: Matt on March 08, 2005, 06:59:04 AM: Rick @ Delta propane was working on a propane kit. He's just of Scott road, on 86ave?, or 84 ave?
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Post by: rustybus on March 08, 2005, 08:05:55 AM: I heard propane was dangerous, for this kinda toy
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Post by: James Buchan on March 08, 2005, 08:47:08 AM: VWcolin has a setup on his Ratrod.... I think he just floods the system somehow.
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Post by: Hoosier Daddy on March 08, 2005, 08:51:58 AM: Without the propane you gotta run really rich to get it work
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Post by: steveo_32 on March 08, 2005, 10:03:06 AM: Well, If you want the \"true\" way, Going back to the roots, Just use and seperate fuel sourse with a little pup tank!!! JUst plain ol GASOLINE!!! then run like hell...............
While your at it we should all TRAILER BALL THE GCVS!!!!!!!!
Balls and Flamers......What more can you ask for!
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Post by: epic3 on March 08, 2005, 08:40:34 PM: If you just use a spark plug and no propane why can't you just use your choke for the extra enrichment that sounds a little safer than a bottle of propane or an extra fuel source.
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Post by: ryanmacneil8448 on March 08, 2005, 08:48:20 PM: Quote
If you just use a spark plug and no propane why can't you just use your choke for the extra enrichment that sounds a little safer than a bottle of propane or an extra fuel source.
you still need the air to push the flame out. the best way i would think is if you were drivin down the road to turn on your extra spark plug, turn off you engine, and pump the gas that way your pumpin raw fuel through the exhaust. just a thought :D
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Post by: Swartz on March 08, 2005, 09:09:36 PM: they had a segment on this on \"trucks\", to get enough gas it had somethign to do with reving it to a certain point and keeping it there :wacko: i cant remember exactly but they had a kit for it
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Post by: Matt on March 08, 2005, 09:14:28 PM: Raw gas is not something you want to push through your engine on a regular basis. I've seen a friend of Geoff's with an amazing rod, he uses a propane set-up and gets 3 foot flames out the back
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Post by: ryanmacneil8448 on March 08, 2005, 09:44:55 PM: Quote
they had a segment on this on "trucks", to get enough gas it had somethign to do with reving it to a certain point and keeping it there :wacko: i cant remember exactly but they had a kit for it
i saw that one the kit had a secondary fuel source
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Post by: Dave R on March 08, 2005, 10:09:03 PM: I believe the kit they used on truckin was from autoloc (http://www.autoloc.com/products/flame.lasso (http://www.autoloc.com/products/flame.lasso))
I see that flamed notchback (vwcolin?) around all the time here in the summer. He mentioned something about how he bought his setup as a kit off of a guy who makes them locally.
Heres another company who sells this kind of kit. They have some questions and answers to go by here: LINK (http://www.gotflames.net/hypercart/faq.asp#57)
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Post by: vwcolin on March 09, 2005, 09:21:45 AM: The kit that i have on my car was bought locally here in vancouver...the guy's name is bad pat...i do not know if he still sells them...but he is always at car shows locally here selling t-shirts..he drive a 30/31 model A pick-up...the kit included a circut box, instructions and 2 spark plug bungs (to weld in each of the tail pipes) you have to supply (depending on how many exaust tips you have) a coil, sparkplug for each and a 2 position switch.
you rev the engine (when ehaust tips are warm) hit the switch and, while the engine is slowing down pump the gas...the raw gas goes thru the ehaust pipes and is engnited by the spark plugs.

tip: install the plug 2\" away from the end....AND if possible make the exaust tip's a large dia....it not the flame is small and very loud (shot gun)

hope this helps
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Post by: Geoff on March 09, 2005, 12:44:47 PM: Colin, Great to see you on here. Hope you post here more often :rockon:
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Post by: James Buchan on March 09, 2005, 12:47:15 PM: I had Cindy slap him around a bit to come on board....
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Post by: thrasherbill on March 09, 2005, 10:57:26 PM: Here's a link with contact info for Bad Pat CLICKY ONE TIME (http://www.badpat.com/) His site doesn't list the kit anymore but he may still have them. He's the guy I got my \"I support single moms\" T-shirt from that was such a hit at breaky. Support your local hot rodder :rockon:

ThrasheR
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Post by: Stephan Schmidt on March 11, 2005, 06:10:42 PM: its cool when cars actually project flames because they are tuned so agressively!

(https://airspeedparts.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv205%2Fpaperchasin%2FIMG_0689.jpg&hash=83fcb3b86e80e4e102654b6b76c21dfa0cc3f268)

but if not, it sure would be awesome to have for those tailgaters :lol:

Stephan