All right guys here's one for my favorite car guys.
my buddy has a 68 impala and wants to put old school flame throwers on it. I would love to hear your input on this there must be some major risk of damage to the host vehicle right? Well there it is fill me with knowledge.



Thanks Dave

 

I think there would be more damage to the car close behind him than anything.
I see guys with those but mostly on chopped Merc's, doesn't seem to hurt anything on them. They do have tailpipes that go well beyond the back bumper.
I'm too young to know how they did it originally but I know it involved exhaust gas and a spark plug or two. I've seen guys with a propane tank in the trunk and the propane is piped to the exhaust pipes and there's some sort of deal to ignite it, the car better be running and revved up good or that could be a big loud problem.

 

Doing it the 'old school' way by choking the hell out of the engine does this - It prematurely wears out piston rings (and to an extent bearings). The extra gas dumped down the cylinders washes away any oil that is on the piston and piston wall. And get used to more frequent oil changes. There will be a strong odor of gasoline mixed in the oil. Is it the smart thing to do? I dont know. Is it cool? Obviously

 

You can get a flame thrower kit from the Hoffman Group. I haven't heard about the quality of the product; however, I bought some seatbelts from them and I am happy with the product. Their customer service is ok, but not as good as Summit or Kanter.

 

I saw that outfitted on a 64 merc 10 passenger wagon. I think he had chambers that collected unburnt fuel and gasses ? he had a button on dash that would ignite shooting flames out the tailpipes , unfortunately his pipes were to short and damaged rear bumper peeling chrome.

 

Common hotrod install in the 50's used sparkplugs, charge up a condensor pull the choke to rich the fuel mixture, hit the switch. Pow flames

 

My favorite Flamethrower wagon.



Here it is at Frozen Dead Guy Days with some fine young ladies riding on the hood and the gentleman on the roof manning the flamethrower.
Too weird to leave in plain sight.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3087/...fa32737c8d.jpg

 

Now thats some serious flames. This would move that slow guy out of the fast lane

 

A budget flamethrower back in the day....turn the key off on the highway doing 80mph...OMG flamethrower and a anouncment that you have them..lol...of course I dont condone such behavior

 

I think modern kits use a fuel like butane and an ignitor in the tailpipe, that way you get a constant flame and not pulses, plus you don't damage the engine.

 

Now there's a HOT addition to your Vista Cruiser!


I dare 'ya...

 

Triple-Dog-dare me?

 

I QUADRUPLE-dog-dare ya!

 

They use a NOS fogger hooked to a separate elect fuel pump or a propane tank of some kind on the newer kits same spark plug coil set up as the good old days I wasn't sure how bad it would hurt his engine going old school. sounds like i should try and talk him out of it a little harder.

 

Frozen Dead Guy Days!

I wouldn't mind giving either one of those ladies a ride aboard my land yacht!

BTW, I think the AutoLoc kit works by attaching to the coil and cutting the ignition for one or two strokes. The unburnt fuel is pumped out of the cylinder and the burned by spark plugs that are ignited in the exhaust at the same time.

 

The old 5 ton with a 366 was great for letting out big bangs. Comes in handy when you might want to see a couple of pretty young things jump outa their tops.

 

Where is Mugzilla. He has a cool ID photo of a Cutlass with Flames shooting out the back.

Fire is cool......

 

Now look what happened. I'll be back.

 

WHUPS!!

You were not supposed to look down the pipe when firing...
Was that omitted from the instruction manual? You did read it, er, keep it, right??

LOL!

 

How's about something like this????

 

I think that might be a little overkill , as in you could.

 

I want to impress the other guys and gals at the show and shine, not flush some commies out of a machine gun nest.

 

that's truly a flame thrower

 

What do you expect its a furd.

 

He must have backed over a Pinto.

 

:c ool:

 

ROFLMAO