[s-cars] sparks from back of car

[Joshua van Tol]

It was probably incandescent bits of carbon that broke off the piston  
tops or someplace in the combustion chamber and made their way out  
the exhaust.

On Sep 27, 2006, at 2:00 AM, forrest bradshaw wrote:

> this was a private closed raod
> playing for awhile at low gears pulling hard then took it up to  
> 130, saw sparks in the rear view mirror, let off gas coasted down  
> to 70 and still was seeing sparks a little bit, pull off road and  
> look at muffler, tail pipes were faintly glowing inside. I've never  
> seen this happen before (never looked before, but never seen sparks  
> before)
>  turbo and manifold glowing too, but not very bright.
>
>  no noises of any kind, back on road everything seems fine, pulls  
> normal.
>
>  the road was kinda bumpey and I do not recall the exhaust hitting  
> the road at all and even coasting to lower speeds still saw sparks  
> coming out.
>
>  MTM 1+ and Vmap from Pastore and Stromung turbo back without cats,  
> wastegate turned down 4 turns.
>  why was I seeing sparks, is there an issue here.
>
>  freaking out Forrest afraid to drive car:(
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