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Old 09-10-2013, 11:18 AM   #52 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
The exhaust goes out the back of the car. This is just the part that gets hot.
As long as you don't have one of those magic crack-o-matic exhaust headers. I did. It cracked from the O2 sensor going up through the Y.

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Didn't top gear try to cook something using the heat from a car engine?
I saw an episode with Mythbusters and Alton Brown where they successfully cooked a Thanksgiving feast on the engine. They measured all the various temperatures and positioned the different dishes strategically for cooking temp and time.
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