Miata Mailing List: January 1994, Message #159
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   From: Andy Poling 
Subject: Re: RE>Too close?
   Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 12:34:26 -0500

On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Jyri J. Virkki wrote:
> Once upon a time Al Jenab said:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > This really needs a car with carbs & manual choke to do well.  The best 
> > antidote for tailgaters I've seen is where you drill and tap a hole near the 
> > end of your tailpipe and insert a spark plug.  Then you run an extra switched
> > wire from the distributer.  When a tailgater presents him/herself, pull out 
> > the choke (so mixture is very rich), step on the gas, and hit the remote spar
> > plug switch.  Instant 20 foot flame thrower and presto! no more tailgater.  
> > This is I believe called negative re-enforcement.
> > -Al
> 
> Or simply turn off the ignition for a second or so while moving (and
> stay in gear). When you turn it back on, a nice flame will shoot from
> the exhaust.  Actually, this is probably not something you'd want to
> try in your Miata!  In fact, I have no idea whether it would work on a
> car; it does work very nicely on motorcycles though...

Of course, both of these are serious no-no's if you have a catalytic
converter...

-Andy

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