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Old 11-16-2004, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by deferr
I have 2 ideas in order to make my 300d a little more fun to mess around in since I'm not gonna burn anybody off the line.

Idea 1 is the idea that some hot rods use. They wire a spark plug in the tail pipe and then unburnt fuel and hot exhaust gases ignite 'causing a flame to shoot out the back. I'm not so sure that with a diesel the same theory would work though. Anybody have any educated comments??

Idea 2 set up an injector in the exhaust manifold hooked up to a swith in the car. Then when someone is tailing me I just push the button which releases straight diesel into my hot exhaust creating lots of black smoke and hereby sending a message. Anybody know how this may work?
They used to do something like that in WW2 for a sort of smokescreen but I don't remember the details, LIke it was diesel fuel into a jeep exhaust manifold. A Jerry rig in the field modification.

But it could be an urban legend.
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