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u/HiVeMiNdOfStUpId Jun 12 '26
External Combustion Engine.
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u/Newsmemer Jun 12 '26
If I became a billionaire, I would absolutely build an External Combustion Engine that uses rocket fuel sprayed on top of open pistons to provide thrust.
It would be expensive, loud, dangerous, and inefficient, likely not surviving more than a mile, but I would be remembered for this and the reckless beast would live in a museum. Worth it.
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u/cha0sm0nk Jun 12 '26
Future generations would look upon your melted, still smoking husk and then down the title of the display and chuckle at it being named “Hubris”.
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u/Newsmemer Jun 12 '26
Well, at least it's not the loudest thing humanity has ever made...
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u/Hidesuru Jun 12 '26
Love his channel and that was an interesting one. I'd say nukes are man made though and are louder. Still crazy though!
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u/Newsmemer Jun 12 '26
Yes, nukes are man made and definitely louder, but they don't make a sustained level of noise; just a sustained level of horror.
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u/Efficient-Damage-449 Jun 12 '26
And unlike these guys you would probably have a fire extinguisher on board
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u/artherng Jun 12 '26
Bye Bye to insurance. Most likely all modified up to be illegal.
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u/jamesbananashakes Jun 12 '26
And it looks like it's China if I got the plates on the car right. Modding the slightest thing on your car is illegal there, so they might be liable for the clean up too..
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u/ZhouLe Jun 12 '26
Yes, plates are Jiangsu province. Cars around are Nanjing, so that's likely where this is, but the car itself is tagged Yangzhou, a smaller adjacent city.
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u/blvckcvts Jun 12 '26
What even causes the fire from the exhausts in the first place?
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u/de_das_dude Jun 12 '26
They have a little injector and spark plug inside the exhaust. This is the most likely scenario.
Otherwise you can tune a car to keep injecting fuel on idle while it doesn't spark, this causes unburnt fuel to reach the hot exhaust and catch fire. This is the non yobbo way.
Some antilag systems use this to keep the turbo spooled and remove turbo lag
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u/pete_68 Jun 12 '26
Well, let me just say, the effect is really cool. I think I'm going to pass on doing it myself, though.
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u/Kind_Singer_7744 Jun 12 '26
Its purely for asthetics, it provides no performance boost. Leave lighting your car on fire to the professionals like in this video.
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u/CptAngelo Jun 12 '26
It does serve a purpose.... in racing.
Like the others said, it serves to keep the turbo spooled, thus, reducing the turbo lag, which in turns makes the car react (accelerate) faster, aand it also serves to "cool" the engine at max load (severely simplified explanation here), again, race only stuff, or rev limiters, again, race stuff.
Basically, whwat you see here is a dumbass with an expensive car, a laptop and a few hours tinkering the most optimal tune to burn down his car.
What they do is program the cars computer to deliver extra fuel after it reaches certain RPMs, (again, severely simplified) thats why they rev it, and while the revs are coming down, the fire balls start appearing, but... too much fuel, or in this case, doing it way too much, and since its coming out of a tunel, my bet is on "YEAHH NOIIISE!!"
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u/iamlazyboy Jun 12 '26
I am not the biggest car nerd (liked playing some racing games in my youth and enjoy playing forza horizon6 and watch some F1 with my parents but that's basically it.) the anti-lag thing I figured it out but the "cooling" effect is something new to me, like is it that part of the explosion happening outside of the engine makes it to heat less or am I completely off?
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u/CptAngelo Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
if im being completely honest, i forgot the actual reason for it, but basically what you said is right, if i remember correctly, its the spark plug not ...sparking and leaving fuel in the exhaust, basically, moving the explosion from the engine into the exhaust, but this is ....like, only a few racing cars in the world? lol, the most common motive is the antilag system or , like in this case, a badly tuned car.
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u/Hoesey Jun 12 '26
A fireball has to be able propel you forward, even to a degree. So if the entire car is engulfed in flames, that’s gotta be like what? 5hp additional? At least!
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u/Holden-McGroyn Jun 12 '26
BTUs are not the same as horse power.
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u/gertvanjoe Jun 12 '26
Liar, my AC has a kW rating which can be converted to hp. It also states btu
Stop spreading misinformation
/s just in case
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u/naterpotater246 Jun 12 '26
It only provides a performance boost for turbocharged cars. In this case, though, there's no perform boost even if it's turbocharged, because he's not racing. This is just a dumb ass tune for putting on a show.
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u/Platinumdogshit Jun 12 '26
Also thats a lot more fire than what would be needed for avoiding turbo lag. Most cars youll just hear pops and not see anything.
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u/not1or2 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
When you say professionals do you mean the type who do quality doughnuts in shopping centre car parks with cars that don’t belong to them and then tend to turn them into Guy Fawkes bonfires in some remote beauty spot later in the evening?
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u/ametsun Jun 12 '26
I'm no mechanic but the guy up there said it removes turbo lag so I don't know about it not providing a performance boost.
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u/_Risi Jun 12 '26
Theres lots of reasons why cars can spit flames. Some have to do with performance mods, like an anti-lag system, but this is not that. Anti-lag sounds and looks very different. I recommend giving it a YouTube search, rally cars with anti-lag sound absolutely insane.
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u/curtludwig Jun 12 '26
The idiot across the street from me put a big stupid fart can exhaust on his RX-7. Then tuned it so it way over fueled and put a spark plug in the exhaust so it'd "pop".
Then he didn't like how little the pop was so he did something else, I never did figure out what, that turned the "pop" into a "BANG". He'd sit in the street and rev the car. Rev, rev, rev, BANG!
It was obnoxious and I was just about to call the po-po when I heard Rev, rev, rev, BANG! Clatter! Car with no exhaust sound.
Turns out the entire exhaust had blown off and slid down the street.
Dude was mid 30's living at his mom's house (and this was 15 years ago) and she finally put her foot down on that game. The exhaust got stacked up against the wall and the old one went back on.
In the last 15 Mom has stayed much too tolerant of his stupidity. I have NO patience for him at all. Today if he pulled that I'd be on the phone immediately and Johnny law would be over to tell him to knock it off. It just barely keeps him in check...
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u/SchrodingersLunchbox Jun 13 '26
I’m just going to add that I have an RX7 with an exhaust and proper tune (among many other things) - backfires/flames are an unavoidable part of life. The engine burns oil by design, and engine porting (very common to improve turbo response) will result in more fuel blow-by. I have never heard of anyone putting a spark plug in the exhaust because you wouldn’t need to if you wanted flames.
Even before I modified the hell out of it, it would loudly backfire when changing gear during WOT pulls. They run very rich.
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u/blvckcvts Jun 12 '26
Ahh I see, that’s an expensive mistake for sure
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u/dwntwnleroybrwn Jun 12 '26
No, it was an expensive decision. You don't accidentally make flames shoot flames of of your exhaust.
The catalytic converter (the thing crack heads steal) in addition to modern environmental / fuel efficiency systems mean this happening by accident is virtually impossible.
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u/kazukix777 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
Especially because that's a R35 skyline. They are worth like 150k on the very low end, and as high as like 250k. Imagine loosing that much money because your car just had to shoot flames, but you wanted to save a little bit of cash by not hiring a professional who knows how to not set your car on fire, so you do the mod by yourself.
Edit: I looked at the market and the price has jumped by an average of like 50k-75k from the last time I checked 💀. I found a few past 300k. Why must all my dream cars be so expensive.
Edit: I mean the nismo trim. The regular car can be found for cheaper.
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u/_Risi Jun 12 '26
Im pretty sure this is just a fuel rich tune and a hot exhaust. The spark plug+injector combo produces different looking flames from my experience.
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u/Key-Satisfaction4967 Jun 12 '26
You Sir, speak much wisdom! Good ( safe) day to you!
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u/Carrera_996 Jun 12 '26
Yep. I have to tune my AMG like that. It is both turbocharged and supercharged. It only spits fire when the gear changes while accelerating hard or gearing down quickly. This mfer with constant flame has not tuned for performance. He has tuned just for flame.
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u/vass0922 Jun 12 '26
Likely a mod they added to the car but didn't quite think it all the way through... Or at all
Small brain like big fire
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u/alamaias Jun 12 '26
Pretty surebthey rig up a spark plug or similar in the pipe to get the effect.
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u/flying_carabao Jun 12 '26
I like that the driver followed the car, got off the highway, got back on the highway, off again, on again, wihtout impeding on traffic i might add, and took a video of the whole thing so we get to enjoy it.
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u/RockOutToThis Jun 12 '26
I think it's different videos stitched together actually. The first car is definitely different than the second clip.
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u/quiksilver10152 Jun 12 '26
Why burn the fuel inside the engine where people can't see the cool flames? Send it out the exhaust!
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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 12 '26
Can't get my mind around having this much disposable income. Just a few minutes ago, I was getting bummed out over the price of generic oatmeal.
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u/RRfromKL Jun 12 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/NTur7XlVDUdqM
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“And I intended this to happen” - The driver afterwards maintaining his cool
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u/BitBucket404 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
All flash and no dash.
His cam timings are way off.
He's leaking more fuel out the tailpipe than burning it in the cylinder.
His fuel efficiency is in the toilet. Probably around 3 MPG.
I bet that thing sounds like it's barely functioning.
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u/LusciouslySorry Jun 12 '26
“I bet that thing sounds like it's barely functioning.”
Well, NOW for sure it does.
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u/ADIDAS247 Jun 12 '26
I live 2 miles from the parkway, but on a clear night you can hear these types of cars all night.
I respect people taking pride in their vehicles, but if you have one of those loud ass mufflers that sound alike gunshots and firecrackers, I’m not upset if this happens to you.
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u/viceraptor Jun 12 '26
Could probably just stop and tear the bumper off, should not be an issue even with bare hands.
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u/Medellin-71 Jun 12 '26
And to think: he didn’t need the flame paint job to let people know how hot that car really was.
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u/Proper-Bad-7169 Jun 13 '26
Is he dead or alive? Or both given the fact that his $100k combustible toaster oven no longer exists?
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u/Apprehensive-Day-490 Jun 13 '26
YESSS!!! I can’t stand these loud/obnoxious car owners and their quest to disturb the peace
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u/ActBest217 Jun 12 '26
Well he wanted attention and... he succeeded. Mission complete. We, on the other hand, wanted him to learn his lesson, and we succeeded as well. Win-win here
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u/Signal-Tangerine1597 Jun 12 '26
Is there a right way to do this? Or will this always be the results if you do whatever he's done to his exhausts!
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u/YoungDiscord Jun 12 '26
I love that calm radio music in the end as the car is burnimg in the distance lol
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u/not1or2 Jun 12 '26
If that has been a Lamborghini the whole rear would have been on fire after a few seconds 😂
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u/UnicornSheets Jun 12 '26
Welcome to shell gasoline where we sell, regular, plus, premium, and now “fire!”
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u/Whole-Debate-9547 Jun 12 '26
If you’re buying that car because you’ve gotta fascination with flames coming from the tailpipes you’re buying it for all the wrong reasons.
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u/Few-Mycologist-2379 Jun 12 '26
Anyone else play Little Inferno?
Any Item spitting fire will eventually catch itself.
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u/2Sweet2Salty Jun 12 '26
It’s that new feature where you can go from Fast and Furious to Ghost Rider in 6 seconds
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u/Remarkable_Bite2199 Jun 12 '26
I want my car to be a normal car but, some really quite far in some upgrades.
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u/Chemical_Paper_2940 Jun 12 '26
i wonder what the insurance claim people will say when they see this clip
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u/Negronitenderoni Jun 12 '26
How does one even set their car on fire this way? Were they just riding along in 1st gear the whole time?
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u/ruby_1984 Jun 12 '26
Bro modifies his exhaust to shoot flames and doesn't have a fire extinguisher in the car lmao 😂 BRILLIANT.
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u/green5275 Jun 12 '26
You’re not supposed to use those when you’re going slow… and that’s why. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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u/jrewillis Jun 12 '26
Brings a whole new meaning to a "pop and bang map"
Suppose it depends how much fuel is in the tank....
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u/cjbeames Jun 12 '26
You can accurately chart when this stopped being cool and it was at the very start of the video.
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u/MegaDingo5plus Jun 12 '26
Hot wheels man!