the referral code fastlife to receive NUMBER_TOKEN off your first case pops bangs crackle tunes and cars that spit fire is there anything better than this depending on your point of view you either love it or you hate it but it's usually the left lane hugging prius owners who hate it and we don't care about those people do we but where did it start how did it get to be so cool with so many people for old-timers like me we used to call it run on or overrun or after fire depending on where you live i'm old what are you gonna do you typically only see this on race cars going back to around the NUMBER_TOKENs and NUMBER_TOKENs and before that among hot rodders and low riders going back as far as the NUMBER_TOKENs see we were cool back then too back in the days of carburetors and super rich air fuel mixtures it was just a matter of revving the piss out of the engine to get enough unburned fuel all inside of that glass pack muffler kind of design that we had back in the air and the thing would catch on fire naturally without any other input race cars were doing it because super rich air fuel mixtures and it would get built up in the hot exhaust it would spontaneously combust today this phenomenon basically comes from one or two possible scenarios one of those scenarios comes from the use of a rev limiter that cuts the ignition off but leaves the fuel on so it's still squirting fuel into the combustion chamber and then the other occurs when there's too much fuel out of that high rpm both of these conditions often exist naturally in race cars especially back in the days of multiple carburetors like i was just mentioning but with the advent of sophisticated ecu tuning and other advancements in technology many street cars today can replicate this exact condition and i'll accept my role for telling the producers about this during fast and furious which also popularized this phenomenon although seasoned car veterans have known about this for decades in the movie of course we faked it we used propane tanks filled with special gaseous mixtures msd coils NUMBER_TOKENal boxes all wired into a spark plug that we mounted to the exhaust system just before the exhaust tip to create the effect so it was lighting a gaseous mixer like a barbecue and none of those cars would have spit flames in real life in that movie except for maybe the rx-NUMBER_TOKEN and the super and only in certain conditions today even ecoboost mustangs can spit flames are we making progress here oh death code car shows are full of people all too happy to show off their flame throwing tunes and pops and bangs maps and all the other stuff and it's not just the tuner guys of course there are tons of exotic car owners who enjoy it too so here's how it works as an internal combustion engine draws in vaporized fuel and oxygen they get mixed together and a spark plug ignites that mixture we all know that right the resulting combustion is a mini explosion if you will that pushes the piston down which in turn turns the crankshaft which sends the power through the drivetain all the way out to the wheels through the axles and then the car moves that's how it works right sometimes not all the fuel gets burned in time when that unburned fuel gets into the exhaust pipes and those exhaust pipes get super hot from racing or revving
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