I have standard c5 which I want to put qtp cutout bypass valves in the exhaust to bypass my backboxes. Basically what I want to achieve is to have flames coming out my tips and wondered if anyone has fitted spark plugs in there tips hooked to a coil? And whether it would actually produce flames as I don't want to drill holes if it won't definitely work. If I have also considered removing the cats as this would probably make it more likely to happen? Any help would be greatly appreciated, adam

 

Wha? Are you doing this before or after you put a massive "CORVETTE" sticker across the front windshield?

 

Wait, let me get this straight. You want actual flames coming out your exhaust tips? Sort of like what we see with the Ferrari F430 in the Miami Vice movie remake, right? You cannot be serious.

Firstly, those effects are achieved by installing tiny fuel lines into the exhaust tips which are illegal for obvious reasons.
Spark plugs cannot ignite what isn't there. You'd need to be running extremely rich to have ignitable fumes in your tail pipes. And if that were the case, you wouldn't need any ignition source to have flames backfiring out of your tailpipes. You would have a lot more serious problems to deal with.

 

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Good luck

 

 

That video does look like fun!

 

Perhaps you are aware of the show car, Wild Thang" It's bound to be inspirational.

Glad you found a way to have fun, and was surprised that a kit was available. What a country.

I guess it's got to be "hot rod" if it ticks people off and I have always liked hot rods.

Good luck, don't get too hot . All that plastic...............and gas.

 

At first I thought, how immature but after watching the video while listening to the Crue it's now interesting

 

Koff...Koff (And maybe get the front end to bounce up and down about 3 feet...)

 

Might as well put a fake BOV on there while you're at it. Yeah i know it doesn't have a turbo but does that matter at this point?

 

You are all from America so wouldn't get the scene over here its a lot different to having ur car lowered on chrome rims its common to see all the *** cars running a flamer kit not running fuel pipes in the exhaust but the spark plug igniting the unburnt fuel in the exhaust it was simple question asking whether anyone had done it before on a vette but clearly nobody is capable of giving me a simple answer.

 

I will give you a simple answer.
Yes it can be done with good results, But here in the States a Corvette is respected, It is the Great American Sports Car.
We use to do that stuff back in the 50 and the 60s to our beat-up hot rods, But not to a Corvette.
It is your car and you can do as you like.
Where are you located?
Good luck on whatever road you take.
Mr.Bill

 

I'm from Tottenham in London ull find I'm probably the only person for miles with a corvette and its so different for people to see I have so many people ask what car it is and nobody's really seen one before. It really rare to see any American cars at all! I went to a American cars show for instance at a well know meet in London called ace cafe and there was only 8 American cars. Most younger kids like me around here drive Japanese cars so fort is be different and get something u don't see. The reason why I asked this question is mainly because my Subaru impreza shoots out huge flames when I change gear and wanted it to do the same thing on my vette.

 

Hey to each his own I just don't see the point of shooting out flames just to shoot out flames. It just screams "Look at me!"

 

Silly question here, but would the flames not melt the rear fascia seeing how the exhaust tips are under it and not protruding out like on other vehicles?

 

Of course it would but what's a little melted plastic when you can shoot out a 3 foot flame while you're getting smoked by the mustang in the next lane.

 

If you want flames shooting out your tail pipe, go eat some cheap Mexican food.

 

Sorry, Adamvette, for what seems like impolite responses. It's your car and you do whatever it takes to make you happy.

And I, too, will level with you, as you asked.

It's adolescent beyond belief; it's Clearasil, Speedos, gold chains, drinking cheap beer until you puke...it's silly.

It's also dangerous. Have you ever seen a Corvette melt and burn?

However, many of us "over here" were adolescent, and silly, once ourselves. I seem to recall a certain '49 Ford Tudor, 3 speed, flathead V8. At that time you could buy from a craphouse supplier called "J.C.Whitney" a "kit" to throw exhaust flame when you energized a coil attached to a spark plug stuck in the exhaust pipe. "For best results" the instructions mentioned to enrich the mixture. If a little is good, a lot must be better. We twisted the mixture needle on that old Stromberg 97 until it was about to fall out: fired it up, stood on the pedal to keep it running, hit the coil switch...and blew the entire exhaust system to heck and back. And caught the front yard on fire.

Go ahead, enjoy yourself. Too bad about the 'vette.

Best Regards, and, Go Manchester.

Gunny John

PS. For guidance on these and other matters, just ask yourself...WWWD?

(What Would Winston Do?)

 

I would put that kit on my Vette if I wasn't to cheap to buy it...looks like fun!!!

 

If you really want to do this, this is how ya do it!
You get a couple of model "T" coils and a couple of spark plugs, wire the coils up to a switch that will stay energized with the engine ignition turned off.
Turn on the "T" coils and the plugs will fire steady in the exhaust.
Start the car.
The way you keep the fuel going into the exhaust, is to keep flooring the gas at the same time as you turn the engine off and on with the key rapidly, keeping it just barely running, causing raw fuel and air to flow down the exhaust, once you get going into a kind of rythm, the flames get bigger and better.
Now you know, and now for the down side.
Your gas washing the cylinder walls, don't expect the engine to last doing this.
Seriously contaminating the oil with gas.
Stall the engine, and risk blowing the exhaust apart, or blowing the oil pan off.
Wearing out the ignition key and switch because of all the rapid back and forth.
Accidentally stalling the engine while mid flaming, possibly burning the car to the ground.
You don't need fuel lines running into the exhaust anywhere, way too dangerous.

I did this many times with fifties cruisers years ago, and it was a blast, but you didn't do it with an engine you cared for, or valued.
Good luck, get yourself a good fire extinguisher!