I was passing two cars recently while in 3rd gear. As I passed the 2nd vehicle, I noticed that he started to try to catch up to me, so I nailed it to 7k and grabbed 4th gear, I stayed in it a little further to distance myself and cruised on down the road( a very remote area w/ hardly any traffic). As I pulled into a gas station a few miles later, the car I passed pulls in and asked what I had under the hood. He said that when I shifted, I blew out whitish/blue flames and accelerated very rapidly away. He was thoroughly impressed to say the least.
My question is this. What caused my car to belch forth flames? I always figured that this is an indication of running too rich as excess fuel is burning as it exit’s the exhaust. Am I correct?

 

Running tad rich and more than likely a nonexistent cat-converter. Do you have a test pipe installed?

 

hmmm
let me guess
no cat
vta valve

my other cars did that alot too
especially on the road courses

 

I spit flames ALL THE TIME! It's ****in great

 

Awesome!

 

yea happened to me also, when me and a friend with an srt4 was foolin around on a long stretch. i shifted damn fast and some people told me the same.

 

Who me? No Cat? Why I never! Is that not illegal or somthin?

 

Oh yeah, I forgot, that was my friends car I was driving!

 

Jeepers "SoFlaBBy", I don't think I see a cat under that thar car!

 

haha nice

 

I see a spark plug.....

 

SoFlaBBY - it kind of looks like you might need some new tires.....

 

255/40/17 Falken Azenis rt-615's

 

Yep, them thar tares a be weerin uneven! You ought to try the GY F-1 Eagles, great dry & wet!

 

+1 , that car shoots fire like its her job. and sho um u being serious?