Miata Mailing List: June 1999, Message #52

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Hey, my old RX-7 would do it all of the time, all on its own.  Drive it up
to 7,000rpm, let off the gas, coast down to about 2,500rpm, then BANG...
Three foot flameswere not a problem.

The rally car (RX-3) does it even more, very impressive on night stages.

Regards,

Richard Dekker, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, MCofA #41997
Founder & President, Wild Rose Chapter - MCofA

1990 MX-5 Miata - Bell Stage III+ - "Turbos Blow"
1973 RX-3 - Rally Port 13B - "Pistons Suck"

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Steve wrote:

> >I've also heard of people joking about putting a spark plug in the tail pipe
> >and running way rich to get the flame....kinda funny :-)
> 
> It's not as funny as you'd think. They used to
> wire it up to a switch and you could flick the switch
> man what that did to tailgaters! :)
> There was a loud BOOM! then the flame, pretty awesome when
> I was younger. A guy at work had it on his truck an Old
> Dodge. Flame would shoot out about 8 feet under acceleration.
> The cops made him take it off. :(
>