This is from the very first FC I've looked for parts on at a junkyard, this car's been sitting out at the yard I frequent for 3rd gen parts for a good year or so. Gotta love when you just stumble across something and you don't even know what you actually just found. (This is supposed to be where it folds under the rocker.) Not bad when this is how both fenders look. This is going to be probably the worst rust spot on the entire car, which isn't bad at all, this is where the fender bolts to the rocker, the hole is actually only where the thread insert broke out, it didn't just rot through, there's probably a 10" long piece of cancer there I'll be able to cutout and remake the fender mounts no problem. Here's the inner fender, this is the spot that I was the most worried about as far as hidden cancer goes, but it's clean as a whistle! The design for how the clip comes apart is awful, everything bolts through each other up front, and makes it so to get one thing off, everything has to come off, I'll be modifying that it I can find a way to do it cleanly and effectively. Given this, it's quite probable that you could get flames out of the standard exhaust if you did the same amount of 'prep' work.Started tearing into it, removing the front clip, the problem areas for rust on this car are pretty concentrated, both of the very fronts of the rocker panels where the fenders bolt on are the worst parts, the right rear quarter has some that looks somewhat superficial, the fender lip on the other side has some surface rust, and the hood has one spot bubbling, other than that it's pretty nice considering it spent 16 years in Canada and 10 years at the beach. If Mazda ever corrects the pig rich fuel map the flames will probably go away for good. Likewise I have not seen any damage to the paint or body work on the car but your mileage may vary. Rev it hard (WOT) and lift off on the throttle quicklyĪs you can see, it is not easy to get flames because the conditions have to be perfect to ignite the unburnt fuel. Get the exhaust red hot by running the car over 6k RPMs for several minutesĬome to a stop or at least keep it under 60 MPH (slower = bigger flames) Here is what speedracer had to say on it:ĭon't worry, it doesn't shoot flames like that unless you really go out of your way to make it happen. It appears that the flame thrower party trick takes some preparation. I would plead ignorant & say that I never knew it did that.:D Having said that & owned various Mazda rotary powered machines since 1988 I have never popped a flame with a Cop around to be even suspected. It's a great party-trick & since picking your nose is probably illegal according to the revenue based State Gov & their puppet Police, you can bet there is a fine code in there some where for flames. I have seen some poorly tuned ECU's spit out flaming exhausts for up to 10-seconds straight. PLus the system would be near red hot to be doing that as proved by the little thrash session prior to returning & spitting them out.īy dumping extra fuel into the system, you make your RX prone to flame spitting on deceleration. That BORLA exhaust was way to loud to be a CAT-back only system. The pics & reports may be so, but it should not be a direct result of the exhaust change. The rotary engine design does allow fuel to get into the exhaust system & then be ignited.
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