Last night I was driving with my friends. I turned off a side street and got on it and bounched off the rev limiter for a sec. The guy behind me said I was shooting a flame out the edge of my exhaust. I'm running a greddy sp and a test pipe on my b16. Is this normal or is it a sign of a rich or lean condition?

 

I've seen sackdz type R do it at a auto X before. It just means your running really rich when that happend. Unspent gas vapor getting all the way back the pipe before it ignites. I could be wrong but that was what I was told. Bouncing rev limiter can't be that great but the fire was from running pretty rich.

 

I don't usually bounce off the limiter but the cold weather kinda makes traction a problem and the tires broke loose close to redline causing the RPM's to jump pretty quick. I guess rich is better than lean but still if it's not good I want to make sure to do something about it.

 

F+F y0!

 

Monica!!!!!

 

I think you need to retard your timing.

 

Wouldn't retarding the timing make the mixture even richer?

 

retard haha

 

your timings not the only thing that's retarded....

 

get a fpr and set it just a monkeys nut sack hair leaner that should solve the problem

 

Most people have to buy the led flame tip. You got it for free.

 

<U></U> lol

 

<U></U> good one!

 

yeah i wish i didn't have to pay for my led tip lol

 

whenever i see racing on tv i see fire coming out the exhaust tips, im sure its not bad. i might just get myself a test pipe and fpr

 

id definately get rid of some of that fuel somehow. you can burn out your muffler quicker by shooting flames...trust me. i did on my old custom exhaust. it actually melted all the sound deadening material and it was caked on the inside walls of the muffler. that es was dead after i took it off to check it out...all due to running to rich with advanced ignition timing.

 

hahahahahaha

 

haha, my roommates car shoots flames sometimes. he has the msd two step rev-limiter, so when he holds it, it just keeps on popping. he has a straight through muffler and a punched cat, and without the silencer, it will shoot flames up to 2 feet long. haha we were bored one day, so we made a video of it.

 

Dont worry about your timing or a/f ratio, its just the fact that you hit your rev limiter the ecu cut spark to the plugs but you still got fuel and with a test pipe it went all the way out your exhaust then flash burned.

 

wheres the video?

 

Yeah, post it up dude!

 

that makes alot more sense

 

could very likely be that, my buddies mr2 did the same thing until he had it tuned with his safc and the problem stopped. if it doesnt happen unless u hit the rev limiter u should be ok

EDIT: i cant spppeel


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