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Re: What causes a backfire?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 12/28/2002 25 Replies

Hi Al,

I never really felt I had a good explanation for the lean backfire issue. The mixture still burning in the exhaust on overlap and firing an adjacent cylinder never really rang true for me because an engine with headers will backfire just the same as o... Login to read more.

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