All you guys with flamethrowers should check out this thread from USA Today......today http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2005-12-01-tailpipe-flamethrowers_x.htm
Heres mine. I built the system myself using 2 constant spark coils & separate elec. fuel pump.It'll be at the Moon show next weekend. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/TroyCagle1/Front_Fire.jpg
Cooooooolllll!!!!!!! A flat black 67 Fairlane with flamethrowers and flame paint. Rat Rod Just like anything, dip****s get their hands on a good thing and **** it up for everyone.
I love that they are destroying their catalitic converters on those modern cars. unburned fule through them, ya its good for it!
I thought that flamethrowers when installed were traditionaly put on kustoms....but now I see a few hot rods with them? I just don't know anymore....
i hope that this kills flamethrowing forever...or at least until the next dumb "LOOK AT ME" doo-dad comes along
"Jimmy, crack it out" I love my flame throwers(and fire in general). But I was forced to remove them because my neighbors don't. I have to admit, I miss'em often, usually when some punk in a civic it tailing be because i'm goint the speed limit instead of 10 over...
Whether you like flamethrowers or not they are part of hot rod history, not a new fad. Im working with a bunch of high school kids right now building a car and those kids get so excited when I mention putting a flame thrower on it. Its hilarious.... but fun......which is what this is supposed to be ... fun. If we dont have fun pretty soon we'll be just like all those lawn chair boring guys and nobody will give a **** about anything we're doing.
Yeah, I was actually cited for flamethrowers on my '59 Cadillac....I wasn't even using 'em....******* ***** power tripin' state trooper too....he saw the spark plugs and said because they were on there, he'd have to cite me....at the time I was replacing a few components on the system, and they weren't operational at the time....I told him "But they aren't operational....they're not hooked up." He said "It doesn't matter. I have to cite you for them." At this point, with my aggravation level ******* the meter, I broke out the liberal use of four letter words. I said "So you're ****in tellin me that if I paint a picture of someone shooting someone else on the side of my car, you can cite me for murdering a cartoon?" He didn't have anything to say to that. This instance was just above and beyond what i hope anybody ever has to endure with a police officer. I was on my way home from playing a gig in St. Paul the night before...ended up stopping in Black River Falls for a few hours and sleeping in the car...get back on the road, and get pulled over by this SOB near Wisconsin Dells....Okay, I was speeding...65 in a 55...he pulled me over for that, and that's fair. But then, he makes some remark about smelling alcohol on my breath....First of all, I DON"T DRINK. Second, it was 9:00 in the morning! Third, I DON'T DRINK! Proceeded to make me do the road test and the breathalizer...which is illegal! IF you p*** the field test, they have no right to ask you to take a breath test, at least in Wisconsin. Then, he gives me a warning for speeding, and cites me for the flamethrowers and for open lake pipes...So I get home and check online to see where the cop is from...he's from Wausau....so I'm thinking, that's pretty far away from where I got pulled over today, so WTF? Then I ask my Dad about it the following day. Wisconsin Dells car show was that day, my Dad vended at it, and he saw three hot rods pulled over in exactly the same spot that I described as being pulled over at...******* state police office in Wausau sent him down there to right tickets for anything he could find....pisses me off, this persecution on the highway ****....oh yeah, and the first thing I did when I got home was to hook the flamethrowers back up....I figured that if I had to pay for 'em, the ******* things were gonna work.....sorry about the rant....didn't mean to hijack the post either....some things just needed to be said....
Can't wait to meet NY fire administrator Burns (if in fact that is his name). He's never seen one, but he's goin' after them! It makes me proud to be a New Yorker!!!
my system is really hidden. i modded my stock lighter to act as the ****on & the plugs are in the top of the tips, hidden by the bumper. i dont fire em up to often, the flames turn my stainless tips gold & im running the original, unrebuilt motor so id like to milk the miles until i have something else to drive while i rebuild the motor. anyhow, i love the flame kit. the reaction from people is worth it alone. especially when they arent expecting it & 'whaa-baaahhhh!!!' some people get such a kick out of it they jump around laughing like little kids. some people piss thier pants & run away. i know im a **** sometimes but its fun to have a big loud scary cl***ic car that shoots flames. especially when so many cars on the road are f'n boring as all get out. im pro flamethrowers as long as theyre used responsibly.
hah it's a good thing you didn't get pulled over in Saint Paul. The closest I've ever been to being shot was by a St Paul officer who pulled me over for being custom near Porky's on University. Screamed, hand on an unclipped gun, made threats, and ticketed me for tint and clear plate covers after going over my truck with a fine tooth comb for 10 minutes. Got them all thrown out, and was told what she did was perfectly legal :shrug: so I avoid Saint Paul like the plague now. Oddly enoug, I talked my way out of a 20 over ticket by a Wisconsin state trooper, in the pull-me-over-mobile with Minnesota plates, 20 miles or so out of the Dells even. Go figure.
I don't know about other vehicles, but on any s10 you can remove the catalytic converter and just plug an O2 simulator into each of the O2 sensor plugs, cost about 50 bucks a pop. Only bad thing is that on the newer ones, you have 3 O2's and anything after a removed cat has to be sim'd. On my older one I just lead pipe gutted the cat and slipped it back on, that way on a quick inspection I'll p*** as legal. No I don't have a flamethrower on it though. I did win one at a carshow, free works. I may put it on the bird, may sell it.
Yeah I built mine....they work okay....'bout 7 foot flames outta the Caddy....but i'm working on an injection system for my Merc...
Nice Rant Jake... Before not this one...What ever Happened whith that ticket did you figh*** ? Louver Dude
There's plenty of things on our beloved cars that some power trip **** can write us for. I say they all need to go home and jerk off with some 80 grit. I'll put a flame thrower on my old truck and ****in DEFY any badge-wearin ***** to **** with me. Get your own hot rod, I say. Don't **** with people who live this **** and provide commerce and entertainment to civic events (car shows). The best idea? May the police forces ought to collect $1.00 from every entrant at car shows instead of writing up the participants. Call it a safety charge, or a service charge. Nothing WE do has any effect on public safety. Although irresponsible folk can **** it up for some. In the end, who gives a fat rat's *** what some over-paid beer-bellied fire chief thinks. **** him. "...I'm going after them..." I damn sure have a car show in NY in my future. How bout a new HAMB creed...LEAVE US THE **** ALONE!!!! boy do I feel better.
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