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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech
My dad's 71 F-250 does that coming down the hill where we all lived as kids. You could be sitting in the house engrossed in whatever you were doing (or not supposed to be doing) and hear him coming from about a quarter mile away. And he had stock spec exhaust too! He says in his yonger days his buddies would put a spark plug in the exhaust and hook it to a coil for tailgaters. All it took was shutting off the ignition while rolling in gear for about 5 seconds, then lighting up that plug. I bet plenty of people pooed on themselves after the report and flash of fire from the exhaust!
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I have a manual choke on the '69 CST10, I won't even need to shut the motor off.
Usually shutting the choke some (and making the truck smoke) is more than enough to make people back off. They don't like the smell of raw fuel.
After thinking about it, I think he's right about the CRX's carb shutting off or limiting fuel when engine braking. If you down shift to a high enough RPM, turn off the key, and keep it floored, it then starts to burble and back fire. Needless to say, my new favorite tail-gating treat.
There's even a control module called the "Anti-Afterburn Control".
