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Old Mar 16, 2011 | 11:20 AM
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ON Exhaust Blown apart after changing injectors

here you go heres the pictures. Swapped the injectors and went to fire it up.... BANG
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Old Mar 16, 2011 | 01:27 PM
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ahaha that sucks... were they filled with gas before you went to fire it up??? as in you had leaky ones before?
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Old Mar 16, 2011 | 01:41 PM
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you had a big backfire, which is normal for rotaries especially on cranking. But your muffler saw better days so it exploded with the back pressure.

Most likely time to get a new one
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Old Mar 17, 2011 | 10:05 AM
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Yeah they were filled with gas before hand 2 cracked injectors. Sounded like a goddamn shotgun going off, neighbors came out parents came out haha man was it bad
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Old Mar 17, 2011 | 10:06 AM
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That's both stock mufflers too btw both came off right around the welds
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 02:26 PM
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Lol awesome, I've seen that before that's a serious backfire.
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