academytim

....and not the kind you thought!!!

3 Rotor flames


We were all nervous when we saw the flames...but Steve calmly said, "At least I know my coils are working."

FDNewbie

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HOLY crap Tim. Nervous? When I saw the flames, I thought, "Uh ohs...this is gonna be BAD..."

He ever figure out what was causing it to throw flames like that?

academytim

It was completely open...no exhaust manifold.

apexkw

lol sounds so cool. i want a three rotor

Sesshoumaru

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i prefer loud bangs with mine too

my friend and i also managed to blow a muffler up once. That was cute.

rotorbrain

no manifold on a running engine looks sooooooo much cooler in real life!!! hahahaha. kinda scary. . . people just back off slowly. hahahahahaha.

paul

ROTORhead93

For the brief moment it was running, it sounded like a monster. I cant wait to see it finally done.

Sesshoumaru

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iv'e ran a couple cars with out a manifold and it gets old fast as the noise leads to undue pain........


it dirties up your engine bay in a hurry...........

domesttuner

how did you guys manage to blow up a muffler?

ROTORhead93

yeah i'm really interested in how that was done.

Romancer

crazy stuff...

Sesshoumaru

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lol... yeah about that.........

That was actually on a piston.......

Timing was off and so it was flooded good

unflooded it by pulling fuel pump fuse and then adjusted to what i'd imagine was very retarded and ended up blowing all that soaked up gas in the muffler.

The flame probably propagated from the exhaust valve and once it hit the muffler that was soaked it blew it open at the seams.

were gonna take a pic of it this weekend.

we were rolling in the grass laugh'n our asses off for about a minute.

roadsterdoc

Cool video. When was that shot?

IIRC, Steve is using some GM coils with the Haltech, so that's probably why he was happy to verify their function.

domesttuner

i wold have paid good money to see the look on your face when that muffler went on it's way to hell

Sesshoumaru

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it had a good 3 inch wide hole in it where it split from end to end.

yeah we had a good time......... I was bout 5ft away from it when it blew up.

LOL.... i also laughed for about 5min when we found out his overheating and idle'n problem was due to radiator fluid coming out of that exhaust a couple months earlier (fixed head gasket- then the muffler blew up which might have played a part in it).

infinitebass

Rich told me I should get him to start the car up for me when I was up there. Wish I had...

Blake

reboot

nice vid

mini-x

dam i didnt know steve had a 3 rotor

FDNewbie

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Yea, Steve was aiming to do a 3-rotor conversion in 2 weeks flat...and I think he pretty much hit the mark (minus some time he had to sideline the project for that 7 they had in the competition last month).

kurrupt999

I was down there about a week ago and i saw that 3 rotor in person. Wow that car is so loud, i thought my ears were going to bleed.

rx-7s rock

I like how the camera guy is like, "Whoa. Got flameage." Then steve just says, "yea, thats fine."

radkins

Can someone mirror it on real server? I can never view those movie theater movies.

Alpha

Here is a direct link to the quicktime .mov file, if that helps at all.

94RHDFD

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by roadsterdoc
[B]Cool video. When was that shot?

Last Saturday

kurrupt999

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 20B 3rd Gen
[B]Were you picking up the Montego fd?