Ok how bad of an idea is it to put flame throwers on her, my dad wont let me on account of tickets. will it destroy my moter? where shuld i put the unit i all ready have one. I put it in the bed mt gas tank is the keg bad idea? I have it hooked up just no plug wires. I am asking for advice things not to do things to do what ever you got
shit am i jus super tired or is that thread tough to understand?? Wingnut, theres hella threads on here bout 'throwers...with detailed do's n donts.. but in brief, yes you will definetely toast your motor eventually if you run the kit in such a manner that it uses raw gas from one of the cylinders.. look at using a seperate fuel source...either small tank of gas fed into NOS injectors or propane with NOS solenoid valves for shutting the system off..
umm actualy if you dont use them alot BUT do change your oil alot, seriously alot. then your mill should be fine.
Flamethrowers are cool! I have them on my shoebox. Change your oil often,don't get too crazy with them, and you will be ok. Life is short, cool is forever. On the other hand,and I don't mean to sound like the flamethrower police,flamethrowers "traditionaly" were a custom, or sled thing,and were not popular with the 'hotrod' crowd. (At least 'back in the day). As the Isley Bro's said"It's your thing, do what YOU want to do' Sparkky
I know they're not usually found on hot rods, but I put them on my 34 pickup. One day when I have a sled or custom i'll put em on that too.....if i'm not too lazy. If you arent a total idiot it wont destroy your motor. I've had em on mine for about 2 years and as long as you change your oil more frequently, and dont use them constantly you should be ok.
Flame throwers are a lot of fun(but illegal on any road). I put 'em on my '56 Ford 2 years ago & blew the original motor within a year. I built a SBF & still do the fire, but a lot less. Use restraint & caution, & a little bit of smarts. To repeat, change the oil a lot. When I was going nuts, I changed it every other week. Better safe than sorry! Like someone said, they usually are on customs, but do what you want. I don't know about having them out limefires, for safety's sake. My car is too hot rod for a custom & too custom for a hot rod. so what. By the way, if you put some metal shavings (rotor cuttings) in the pipes, you can cut back on the gas & let the sparks impress. Just don't let some moron point your pipes at his father-in-law's '59 Caddy!
I had some on a 55 Ford wagon (when wagons weren't cool) that was more hot rod than anything else. I don't think it matters if its what floats your boat. Ya might consider using a little restraint and don't get a ticket. Everyone elses advice is good. I definatley wouldn't out 'em in the limefires. Mount your coils under the bed. Your little brain box doesn't care where its mounted. Now make damn sure your dad doesn't see this post. I have enough enimies already.
They kinda remind me of "big time wrestling". All gimmic, little else. Might as well run spinner wheels.
That's a nice looking ride, young man! My grandpa used to run flame throwers.......in the 40's.....no lead sled, just good ole' hotrods......
First things first. Take a few English classes and learn to put words together to form readable sentences and use the fine art of punctuation. Then maybe you will get some useful answers.
AMEN! Flamethrowers are kinda GAY , even on a custom.....but on a hot rod?!!! Hotrods are for go....not for show!
Flame throwers on a hot rod? Really? Instead of shooting flames, maybe you could have 47 clowns jump outa the truck at stoplights...
Or you could better spend the money putting a set of Wide White Wall tires on your "house"! Or a hotter cam, or some Rust Bullet primer, or heat coat your headers. Or take your parents and old ladie's parents out to dinner... Lots of better ways to spend the flamethrower money away...
My son STILL remembers the flat black primered, purple flamed, slammed '59 Plymouth I shot a feature for, shooting flames out of his tail pipes. He was 4, he's 9 now. Being a dad who worked for car mags most of his life, he's seen a lot of really cool car-guy stuff already. That's one of his favorites. Yeah, I'm putting them on my '54 Buick. But let's see--primered cars (that aren't sealed so they rust easy) are cool. Impractical, but cool. 3-speed manual transmissions are cool. Obsolete, but cool. At the most, trannies without overdrive. Flat heads are cool. So are Nailheads, Rockets and every other engine that has been proven--in the most Darwinian examples imaginable--to be inefficient junk. Bias ply tires are cool, even though radials are far superior. Finned Buick drums without self-adjusters?! Gotta have 'em! Oh, wait! BUGGY SPRINGS! Damn don't those handle well?! And the list goes on and on an on and on. All our junk is cool for one reason or another, even though you can go to the dealership and buy something brand new that will drive better, handle better, get better gas mileage, have A/C, power damn-near-everything, heated fucking seats OnStar Sirrus radio and delay god damn windshield wipers, and most will go faster in a straight line or a road that looks like someone strung together 2 dozen "S"s, but flame throwers aren't cool because they don't...what? Make the car faster? Prettier? WHAT?! Shit, most of us would get outrun by a teenage girl driving a new Honda Accord. And if not, it's a sure bet that the Accord won't overheat if it gets stuck in traffic. Or is stuck in line pulling into a car show. ("Hey, which way to the car show?" Just follow the green line in the middle of the road) Our cars, by and large, are nothing more than giant toys--there's no argument you can make that will hold water justifying them as anything other than mere entertainment. They're great big, expensive damn toys, and nothing more. Put flame throwers on your car and have a good time playing with them. The rest of you should go comb your hair--your Pomps are falling. Me? I think I'm going to mount a coil, an external electric fuel pump feeding a Bosch fuel injector in each tip, with return lines back to the tank. One switch powers the whole thing, and I don't have to worry about washing the cylinder walls down. Rant over. Good night. -Brad
My father was running up and down Cannery Row in the '30s with a home-brewed flamethrower hooked up on his hopped-up Model A coupe. Something about using a model T magneto to fire it, but no idea what he drove the magneto off of. I guess it's as trad as you can get. Another gizmo he and my uncle rigged up was a "cannon" made from a railroad axle bolted onto the rear fender, where the guy riding in the rumble seat could fire off dynamite salutes and such. My dad said that the cops were all over them in Carmel and Salinas, so they went down and stopped at a creamery (soda shop) next to a handy alley on Cannery Row. Their buddy had been lighting off so many fireworks that day that he sub-consciously lit off a cherry-bomb while they were in the store, and tried to put it out by dropping it in his Coke. Needless to say, they were asked to leave after they swept up all the shards of glass. Nope... flamethrowers aren't smart, but they're the kind of fun you don't want to tell your kids about.
alot guys on here dont like flamethrowers, i have em on my car i think its aright, if u wanna get the kit and change ur oil OFTEN like once a month
Not a very cool thing on a Hot Rod....I don't think any of the guys who were building Rods for the salt were wondering how cool it would be to shoot flames out of the exhaust for no other reason than to show off.... They were put on customs because customs are all about showing off and expression in automotive art. In other words they do have their place. In fact on the right cars and used responsibly they are a riot. However, Hot Rods were purpose built and no nonsense - I vote "no". Not trying to be an asshole - just judging from all of the books I have read Flamethrowers were never as popular "then" as they are "now" and I don't recall ever seeing a Rod with 'em.
Ok i thank you for all your help but i am not building a damed salt flat car i'm so tired of the salt flat thing. I'm not saying its not cool but it's not my thing if i wanted to do a race car id do sompthing i know i have spent my whole childhood a wenchester in indiana watching my grandpa race modofides so i would do circle track car if i wanted a race car. But i never raced. Me i always hing outside the track and skateboarded i decided to do a mid 60s surf rod. So it is alot for show, and enugh room to put your bords in her thats what i wanted thats what i alwats wanted hell ive never even seen the salt flats. but i have surfed hey salt flat gyes im gonna paint over that pretty primer with an with an ugly candy lime green
I'd add hooked on phonics to the list of things that you should buy instead. Since you are still in high school, I suggest you take another English class....please. I like flamethrowers too, but they seem to fit a sled better. Remember folks, he lives near the mecca of flamethrowers, Fairmount Indiana, the home of James Dean. Everyone there has 'em.
Never! I swear!! Oh god....Stupid flamethrowers!!!! Actually no...I think the 39 is just what I need. I think you really need to focus on your Olds. How about it? Come on.......
who the hell cares what everyone else thinks, its ur car, if you like em put em on, hot rod or not. thats why i have em on my 29, cause i can care less what the next guy thinks.
I think flame throwers are awesome on pretty much anything hot rods, kustoms and even bikes n beetles. The only way I dont like then is when people go crazy with it like putting 8in pipes on making their car look stupid. HotRod29 has I nice set up his car, from the back it looks like a regular Hotrod, cant tell he has flame throwers at all on unless you look underneather the car and see the plugs about 6in back. The pipes are not over sized at all, the only he might do wrong is he might wreck the chrome on his vintage 60's rippeled exhaust tips, but what the hell the flames are cool to look at... so flame on
Well, I'm sure they like that seeing as many show rods (with shiney paint) ran at the Lakes......you better add History lessons to the English lessons. But all this sounds like conjecture since your dad says no anyway.....
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