Oh yah for sure. Doing that on my '69 Beetle would make a gan, AND shoot a nice sized flame out the Kadron exhaust!
Neil. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > re "Do not explode the exhaust box at him' > This a real trick that I read about in a US motorcycle magazine about 10 > years ago : . > for getting people off your tail............ > you keep the bike ( or vanagon - but I haven't tried this ) in gear but turn > off the key ( the steering won't lock as long as you don't turn the key > full left and pull on it ) .............you turn off the ignition while > still moving and keep it in gear........ > unfortunately, on a fuel injected vanagon that'll also shut off the > fuel............but on a carb vehicle fuel still goes through the engine and > into the exhaust system, on some anyway .......................you do it for > about 5 seconds, then turn the key back on ..............the result is a > huge load bang/explosion sound out of the exhaust system. > Scares the hell out of 'em and they back off. |
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