Fire from the tail pipe

TYTILIDIE

TYTILIDIE

METH HEAD
Last night, I raced this guy in a modded Duramax. He has wanted to race me for a long time. So I said what the hell lets do it. Well, it was pretty sad. These guys claim to run in the 11's and 12's. I demolished his ass. Anyway, we pulled over after the race and he started telling me how sweet it was that I had fire blowing out of my tail pipe. I don't know if he was just pulling my leg or what but it's got me a little worried. IS something I need to try and fix? He said it was a big flame and was there for at least 3 4 seconds.
 
TYTILIDIE

TYTILIDIE

METH HEAD
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

Smoking? No I do not run a cat or a muffler. Well I run a muffler but my dump is attached to it so when the dump is open on the muffler it becomes straight through.
 
WyoSyclone

WyoSyclone

Active member
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

Are you spraying methanol? What is your timing at? If retarded too far you could be dumping fuel but I would think you'd be able to open your hood at night after a run and see bright red manifolds... If you're dumping a lot of methanol it could be blowing through and igniting??
 
91blazins10

91blazins10

Active member
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

My guess would be the methanol igniting, I remember seeing a typhoon at homecoming that was spraying meth and it happened to them.
 
ed hess

ed hess

race or get outta the way
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

you do realize that pics in this post would be AWESOME.


as a side note i've been told its pretty cool seeing the sy thru the traps at night with the turbo glowing red.... when its done this is on my short list for a photo shoot.
 
bezerk

bezerk

New member
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

ed hess said:
you do realize that pics in this post would be AWESOME.


as a side note i've been told its pretty cool seeing the sy thru the traps at night with the turbo glowing red.... when its done this is on my short list for a photo shoot.
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you need to post more anyway.
**** i missed you!!
 
TYTILIDIE

TYTILIDIE

METH HEAD
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

phoonTy said:
:stupid:

[/hijack]

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Tytilidie Kill Story. :lol:
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Not a kill story, as I have said many times I will not post kills anymore.

FWIW, the trucks feels super stron. I have no knock, what do you mean by the meth is igniting? Does this mean I am running too much? I think I am only running 17* of timing at the 16 psi or so, bump it up maybe?
 
420

420

Broke Ass Racing
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

I would hazard a guess that the truck may be running a little rich. It could be the meth, but I *think* the flame from methanol would be a different color.

Did the guy happen to mention what color the flames were? Also, have you checked A/F lately?
 
TYTILIDIE

TYTILIDIE

METH HEAD
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

420 said:
I would hazard a guess that the truck may be running a little rich. It could be the meth, but I *think* the flame from methanol would be a different color.

Did the guy happen to mention what color the flames were? Also, have you checked A/F lately?
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I watch the wideband all the time but did not look at it on that run. He didnt say what color the flame was, only that it was wrapped around the exhaust. Not sure how well he could see me being 15 cars ahead of him though.
 
JSM

JSM

Active member
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

meth is my guess, spraying a lot and its not all igniting in the engine. Happened to hardman's typhoon, he had devils own controller which I was not that happy with for this reason as well as a few others.
 
TYTILIDIE

TYTILIDIE

METH HEAD
Re: Fire from the tail pipe

TwinTurboV8Ty said:
meth is my guess, spraying a lot and its not all igniting in the engine. Happened to hardman's typhoon, he had devils own controller which I was not that happy with for this reason as well as a few others.
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What is the ultimate negative result in this occurrence? I will play with it this weekend and make sure I am not running to much. I'll have to back it off.

Whenever I am haulin ass and my wife is with me I always scream out in a redneck voice "THIS THANGS ON FIRE!!"
 
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