I can't find it, that flame thrower exhaust Ford, think they took it off the web, I loved it.

 

This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v36MCcRPRTc

 

Thanks, I couldn't find it.

 

Thats hot! I wouldnt take my truck back....

 

i wish i could get some flames out of stacks
i sould call some people at ford and ask how

 

If black smoke is due to unburned fuel, will it re-ignite if you give it an ignition source?

Say, add a smoke switch and hook up an electronic ignition propane torch?

That would be cool with stacks

 

Whats the banging going on in that video? Sounds like a bad piston or 2? I thought those trucks were very quiet???

 

Its an injector issue. This video is from way back in the year when these trucks just came out.

 

My Brother in Law talked to one of the Ford Engineers at Sema about this issue. The truck had an injector issue and he drove it for way too long in Limp mode to get home. Excessive fuel buildup in the exhaust from the injector, and it must have done a regen. You know how they fixed it. Took away the limp mode. That is what the recall on it did.

 

Gotta love the easy fixes....

As far as making your diesel shoot fire, check this out...

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Im starting to think maybe a Cummins ISX 565 mounted in the bed with several turbos and a lot of NOS might be a good idea...

 

Most of the old rat rodders use a simple coil and spark plug system. Simple really take a sparkplug screw into a nut you have laying around the shop drill hole in the exhaust near the rear of the vehicle then weld the nut into the hole and screw the spark plug back in. then connect the spark plug to a coil mounted on say the frame and hot source running from the battery to switch mounted in the cab and then from the switch to the coil. When the switch is flipped the spark from the plug will ignite the rich exhaust gasses making flame.

 

Will a spark ignition source light off diesel fuel? And how rich does the exhaust have to be? I know they make kits to do this, but dont they syphon some gas from your tank and spray through a nozzle to enrichen the fuel mixture?

 

I could easily be wrong, but I'm pretty sure diesel will not ignite in any fuel air ratio you could have coming out of the exhaust. The autoignition temperature is something like 140 deg, not sure what ratio is req'd. i.e. you shouldn't have to worry about static electricity igniting diesel vapor at fuel pumps. If you want fire, you'll have to put in some other source of flame like propane or something.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

 

After a deisel is warmed up, temps in the exhaust are above the Auto ignite and vaporization temperatures so a spark igniter would technically work if there is enough fuel to do so.

 

Theres pics on here, I believe 'blackcloud' s gallery, of stacks being lit off.