That happened to my little brother on his old V8. The carby was overfuelling badly and when he gave it a bit after cruising for a while, it let out a massive bang and the end result was a huge hole in one side of his muffler. Looked pretty cool though ;-)
Daniel Kroehn ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 2:15 PM Subject: Rear end explosions. hehe > G'day All, > > Just thought i'd share my latest stupid adventure. Yours truly brought a > niceish 240Z a while ago and after changing the head gasket got it all > going and registered great. It is blowing some smoke, occasionally black > occasionally blue. Ok fine.. so its running rich and its tired.. > expected. I have been the most busy in my entire life with working 12 hrs > a day 7 days a week on a defence contract for my uni and simultaneously > trying to finish my honours, oh and set up a PhD scholarship and see my > girlfriend somewhere in there so as you can imagine, tuning my carbs was > way down on my list. Yesterday something went funny after a highway trip > and the engine didn't like running at just open throttle, WOT was fine, > idle was ROUGH as guts but it would churp and burp at just open throttle. > More indication that its running too rich, fine. Driving home from my > girlfriends this morning it was particularly bad, gave a big churp.... > KA-BANG. Muchus backfire and explosion from the arse end.. MUCH black > smoke in the rear view.. and it now sounds like a truck. > > Verdict: Got home and had a look.. its got an oval muffler mounted up and > down and at the back and bottom of this muffler there is now a big gaping > hole where the extra fuel that wasn't getting burnt has collected and > exploded. Hehe.. > love it. :) > > Bit higher on my priorities list now. > Regards, > > Dave > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
