Burnout incident at Alice Springs

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Originally Posted by XR8235

I'm with you Dr methanol very hard to see in the day and very blue with a tinge of orange at night.

Looks he has some sort of exhaust sprayer in that car. If it was like the summernats video the flames would have kept going but the fire went out.
Cheers

What it is is the car is on the limiter that cuts spark but not fuel. Being on methanol yeah that burns almost clear but the rest of the crap thrown up and about doesn't. So whilst the car is banging the limiter it's dumping fuel into the exhaust which ignites, the contaminants being thrown up are the cause of ignition which starts the tyre fire. It's sort of but not really like a silo explosion or somebody creating an explosion by using a regular vaccum without the particulate filter to clean out a photocopier and creating a fire ball. The reason alot of the top guys run straight pipes well past the back of the cars is to prevent it happening but it's not always the case. The reason they run methanol is that whilst you use more it burns colder so whilst power is to be made its harder to overheat the motor.