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I was drivin down the road the other day and I had my boost ( tap) wound all the way up which I had forgotten about duuuhhh!!!!
Anyways, I floored it ( as you do ) and the boost guage went off the clock resulting in an almighty BANG with a massive BACKFIRE! which lit up the whole interior of my car and made my wife want to change her knickers.
So I immediatly pulled over thinking oh god what happened but.....nothing. There was no smell? there was no visible damage anywhere at all and when I jumped back in and drove off the car boosted perfectly normal, I have had it checked since ( compression test ) and its fine, if anything I reckon its driving heaps better??

So what the hell happened and is there something I've missed????

 

My guy says detonation sounds like someone shaking a coffee can half full of nails one good hard time.............

Could that have been it? I've never heard it (and hope I never do.......)

 

Did you lose power when you heard the bang or were you compelled to just let off the pedal? If your car felt like it hit a brick wall, it was fuek cut (nasty feeling) but if it kept pulling thorugh, or did not lose power, it was probably just a backfire, fd's are flamers afterall

 

do you have an aftermarket wastegate not setup in your exhaust system if you do then the wastegate will make a really loud noise like something just broke off the engine

 

You have alot of things to conside,r and alot of things to check, check them all out one by one, one of them is bound to be teh reason

 

Racer4life..............

Holy F*ck, could you be a bit more vague? I'm sure you just helped spekdah tons............

 

cheers guys,
yeah the conclusion I think i've come to is a massive backfire, but honestly, this was a real doozey!!!

 

Were you boosting then the car went dead for a second then boom with acloud of black smoke seen in the rear view ?

 

Did you read my first post, I think my message helped him out more than "holy f*ck.........."

 

Indeed HAHA

im confused did you way over boost? the right combination of driving actions will cause a huge backfire its only happened to me once. If you overboosted Id say it was a fuel cut.

 

Racer............

Just bustin *****...............you're right, your first post actually had some redeeming qualities.............

Must be all that christianism........(still bustin *****....from your other post somewhere.........I'll prolly hear from you on that one, too...........)

Hey, if you're in Miami, let's meet and settle it on the track at Sebring.......... ............or at Homestead if I can talk myself into the drive down there...........

XOXOOOXOXOXOOOXOXOXO

David

 

Hey awesome, that sounds good, Ive bveen meaning to go to the trck one of these days, Im gonna get my **** tuned right first tho (so I dont get embarassed) but Its good to see some forum members still have a pretty good sense of humor.