Red Bull Gives You Ignition
Submitted by: i told my husband that $300 was too much for a new exhaust pipe. i got this instead. via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Mr. Evilwrench says, “Red Bull gives you… hey, maybe this guy is on to the secret of the flying cars we were supposed to have by now.”
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Should have shelled out the $300… on more Red Bull.
Not for nothing, but my dad and I have actually made this repair on an 88 VW Fox. He had the mechanic ordered the replacement section of pipe, but it wasn’t due in for a week. The pipe was rusted out, giving him no back pressure whatsoever and he needed a vehicle, so, we took a Saturday and fixed it with 2 soda cans (we doubled them up for strength), wire and a heavy dose of muffler tape. It held up for that week, and another after that because part that came in was the wrong one. When our mechanic finally saw what we’d done, he lol’d and said it would probably last at least another month the way we did it! My dad’s a frickin’ MacGyver.
You gotta do what you gotta do, right?
Well, it won’t rust ..
it won’t last. not even a week.
It’s a good thing carbon monoxide is odorless, so at least the smell wont be an issue.
did they exhaust all other possible kludges before going with this one? good, classic kludge, but i hope they have more cans and wire… they’re gonna need it.
Plenty of teenage kids on scooters around here make a point of wrapping their exhaust systems in opened-out Red Bull cans, presumably because they think it looks like a racing livery. The really cool ones go for opened out beer cans.
This is because Red Bull gives you wings!
Red Bull gives you… hey, maybe this guy is on to the secret of the flying cars we were supposed to have by now.
Yes! He! Can!
This will surely add 25 HP.
I have a feeling he’s gonna have a problem getting his car to shut off when it’s time to park it for the night. He’ll probably have to use a Nyquil bottle for the windshield washer fluid to solve that problem.
This is how they fill up Red Bull bottles at the factory – now I know why it tastes funny
Repair job done. Now, let’s put this Monster of a car into Full Throttle and party like a Rockstar!
hehe! like it!
Good One
Drop in a 200 shot of NOS and we will be good to go.
By the looks of it, there are other parts which need to be repaired as well on this Chevy Nova ’68.
Oh well, back to the beverage aisle…
I believe i can fly
I’ve actually done this with a soup can (they don’t tear as easily as drink cans… see I’ve done that too
) It works pretty good.
I went high end on that same kludge — can – then wrapped the whole bit in muffler tape — worked great and was quiet too.
I have done this too, and D-cat is right a soup can is better… there is one on my truck right now
So step away from the keyboard and go take a picture already.
Sounds like you’ve got your truck pretty souped up.
I wanted to do this with my 92 Honda before shelling out for a whole new exhaust system (we have emissions checks here), but it still wouldn’t have passed. They actually inspect the pipes. It cost me a freakin’ fortune to replace everything from the catalytic converter on back :’-(
If you think a complete exhaust was bad on a 92 Honda, price it out on a 98 Chevy C-3500 truck with 5.7 V8 sometime. Dual catalytics all welded together with the muffler and tailpipe. But no exhaust system with working cats, no tags, so… Painful repair bill.
Judging from the rest of the undercarriage, the owner of this car is just putting the work off till Spring. Or when the chassis Falls in two, whichever comes first.
Did the same with a bean can and hose clamps about 5 months ago. Still going strong
Does using a bean can make the exhaust smell even worse?
Back in my day (early 70′s and driving sweet 60′s muscle cars) we used Campbell’s soup cans to fix the exhaust pipes. That and a hose clamp works well!
be there, I used a can of soup, my exaust was bigger
I tried using a Copenhagen can, but it didn’t work. What am I doing wrong?
Using Copenhagen is a great way to reduce emissions. I don’t think it works on a car though.
Upon being transfered(1963) from LA to Omaha NE I bought a 59 Porsche Normal in Houston TX. I wanted something with a roof and windows( my last car was a TR-3. Every thing was fine, and I attributed the lack of heat to the short distance I had to drive to work.Come Christmas I got on the road back to Houston and had ICE on the inside of the car. I stopped at a country garage and asked to have the car put on the lift up next to the overhead gas heater to warm it up. The mecanic who had never seen a Porsche but had seen a VW found that the connector tubes from the engine to the heat ducts in the car were MISSING. Two cardboard oil cans and 4 hose clamps later and I was on the road warm and toasty. Never did swap them out for stock parts. The next Christmas I rolled it on the Kansas Turnpike and had to fly home.
Yes, air-cooled car + midwest winter (IL) = cold ride home. Good thing we are from sturdy German stock.
this car will now run with 30% more energy
you are going to die, this my friend is called natural selection.
Talk about recycling.
Indeed: a soup can, a little metal epoxy putty to seal off the patch and some steel wire. That’s a fix, not a kludge. I kept my mark-I Golf going like that for years because I couldn’t buy a replacement exhaust locally.
If there’s some redbull still in the can, that car will turn into a plane.
Thought Red Bull was supposed to keep you from getting exhausted.
Redbull keeps you from being exhausted!
Old school fix this is. Best results are with a heavier steel can and screw-type metal hose clamps. Gets folks to work, (or the unenjoyment office), and helps keep food on the table. Or go to the muffler shop and pay largely.
This is a brilliant fixup job !
So THIS is how they get that dumb ‘Flying Cars’ cheat to work in Grand Theft Auto…
…It also explains why the regular cars you find SUCK.
You´re all jellous he´s a Red Bull sponsored machine!
I am almost ashamed to admit..that’s my wife’s car. I explained how the new muffler was ~$300 and she said that was unacceptable. She wanted me to use a PBR can, but I have standards. It was secured with .035″ safety wire and was on the pipe until I had the muffler replaced almost 2 months later.
Is this a ‘Cafalyst’?