Beautiful Work!  I want one of those t-shirts as long as
they are NOT printed on stark white shirts.  What a great
piece of artwork...

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List
[mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of phil stanhope
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:43 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Flames!

--- Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM> wrote:
> The best way to test the potential power of the
> exhaust pipe flame
> thrower is to install the spark plug in your tail
> pipe, hook up your
> spark plug wire, crank up the engine then urinate on
> the plug.

YEAH BABY!! And when your done your westy will look
like this:

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/napszeerf/vwp?.dir=/Brown+westy+w
olfsburg&.dnm=WESTYCopyright-PhilStanhope.jpg&.src=ph&.done=
http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/napszeerf/vwp%3f.dir=/Brown%2bw
esty%2bwolfsburg%26.dnm=Huey-Chopper-Green-02.jpg%26.src=ph

Shameless plug for my upcoming Daddy Roth Westy
T-shirt:)

I wonder if doing this ever made flames go back into
the engine and blow up. It always looked real cool in
those cheezy 50's hot rod movies.

Phil

>
> Stan Wilder
> 83 Air Cooled Westfalia
>
> On Thu, 9 May 2002 16:59:58 -0400 David Beierl
> <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> writes:
> > At 04:53 PM 5/9/2002, Matthew Pollard wrote:
> > >not mine... see below
> > >
> > >Gary Watts wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Okay, I'm got gonna try and do this...yet.
> > > > When I was in highschool we used to mount
> spark plugs in our
> > exhaust
> > > pipe and light off the vapors at car shows.
> Since my westie only
> > has
> > > pipe coming out the muffler, I was thinking "hey
> half the parts!"
> > > >
> > > > So the question is: How far of a flame do you
> think I'd throw?
> > I'm not
> > > up on the emissions on these engines.
> >
> > Not far at all.  The ECU completely shuts off the
> fuel supply when
> > you're
> > coasting, and never supplies any under any
> circumstances when the
> > ignition
> > is turned off, so I think you're SOL on this one.
> Better think
> > about an
> > auxiliary injector mounted in the tailpipe along
> with your spark
> > plug -- or
> > take the South African route
> >
>
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9812/11/flame.thrower.car/
> >
> > david
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Beierl - Providence, RI
> >   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> > '85 GL "Poor Relation"
> >
>
>
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