Chip,
Maybe you could market your smoke screen devoce and sell it on infomercials!
<g>
Laura G. and Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Mautz <clmautz@yahoo.com>
To: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>; Spitfire List
<spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: Monday, November 23, 1998 6:55 AM
Subject: RE: Weber Tuning
>---Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Agreed. But that's not the point I was trying to make when I said
>>
>> > > it has almost nothing to do with the running of the engine but
>almost
>> > > everything to do with where the pipes terminate at the back of
>the car and
>> > > the airflow in that area....
>
>More fuel for the fire. My '71 needs engine work bad, and blows LOTS
>of stuff out the rear. People have thought I'd blown the engine while
>pulling up sometimes, but I digress...
>
>My car has a custom dual exhaust system, straight out the rear, and
>then bent upwards, with twin chrome tips, a'la an E-type Jag. When I
>drive it, the exhaust comes back up on the back of the car, bumper,
>and even into the passenger compartment, lid up OR down. It doesn't
>matter.
>
>Due to the blazing high speeds that I drive the Spit, I'm thoroughly
>convinced that due to the airflow over the rear of the car, any
>exhaust turned upward will deposit soot on the rear. Top up, windows
>down, it practically funnels the exhaust around each side and into the
>open window, perfectly! You couldn't plan for better delivery...
>
>After I get the engine in order, I'm hacking off the exhaust, and
>removing the manifold. Then, a nice header, into a pipe, into my
>flowmaster, and out the center.
>
>I may even copy a design I saw this summer at our British Car Day car
>show at Chateau Elan - run a huge pipe straight down the center from
>the muffler, and turn it downward toward the ground. The car's pipe I
>saw terminated well UNDER the end of the car, but the downturn kept
>the exhaust at ground level, and didn't dirty up the back end at bit.
>Quite impressive - you couldn't even see the pipe unless you got down
>and looked under.
>
>But, until I get her fixed, she comes in handy, as a smoke screen to
>hamper the police on those high-speed chases down the freeway... ;-)
>
>Woah - gotta wake up! Was I dreaming again??
>
>Chip
>
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