Ottawa Fiero Club Forum

Never expected this...  Uncovered my car, started her up, and let her idle for a bit while I cleared away some of the snow so I could move her in to the garage.

Somewhere between when I last noticed & now, something has plugged up my RH tailpipe, well out of sight from the tips.  Part of me is hoping it's just a frozen condensation build-up, the other part of me wants to use it as an excuse to apply an exhaust mod I've been mulling over for a while.   :)

In any case, I can't help but wonder if I've been teasing Gary too much, and I'm going to find something nasty up in there if I cut it open.  ;)

When I was in high school I remember that potato's were known to grow up ones tailpipe  ;)

When I was working at a pizza restaurant, I discovered that doughballs have the same ability on occasion.   ;D

While we're on the subject, did you know that appropriately sized cucumbers will launch themselves out of a tractor's exhaust stack like a small ICBM?    :o

ok guys, some children are reading here, enough about plugging pipes and stucking cucumbers up the exaust. :P

Well wouldn't you know it, it was plugged with ice.

Let her run for a while on one of the warmer days after we got back from our trip, and this time I could hear faint burbling from the RH tailpipe.  Let her run for a while longer, and water started to spit out.

A couple of whacks on the throttle later, she was growling nicely from both sides again and there was a healthy puddle on the floor.

Given the geometry of the stock exhaust system, I'd love to know how enough water got in and stayed in place long enough to freeze & block the pipe...  but it doesn't really matter at this point.

It's got to be some kid having fun with snowballs.

Aaron

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Yeah someone prob packed your exhaust with snow.

There is no way snow can just blow up in there and freeze into a solid wall!