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Old 06-27-2007, 03:12 AM
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Default im shooting flames out my tailpipes!

i raced a guy tonight, and when we pulled over he told me i was shooting flames out my tailpipes! wtf? am i running too rich?
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Old 06-27-2007, 03:18 AM
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prob just a bakfire
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Old 06-27-2007, 03:24 AM
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I bet it looked neat as hell
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Old 06-27-2007, 03:26 AM
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mine use to do that when running rich and hitting the rev limiter... my friends cobra does that when he shifts... also boosted.
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Old 06-27-2007, 05:32 AM
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My fox body does that. I heard it was from not enough back pressure?????
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Old 06-27-2007, 06:12 AM
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so is it bad? i was shiftin hard cause i was racin. but yeah the guy said it looked cool as hell!
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Old 06-27-2007, 06:41 AM
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Default RE: im shooting flames out my tailpipes!

Its just part of shifting hard on a FI car, sometimes it will do it, sometimes not.

Espcially if you hit the limter, or just shift really hard it happens. You suddenly get off the throttle and shift hard and some extra fuel doesn't get burned.

No big deal, better to be rich than lean
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Old 06-27-2007, 01:28 PM
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try to do it again, take a vid and post it
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Old 06-27-2007, 01:44 PM
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Sooo if he saw tailpipes im assuming that means you won lol.
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Old 06-27-2007, 01:50 PM
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you just put one of those flame kits on and don't want to tell us about it i bet
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