flame out of exhaust pipe

[Eagle88]

My question is reguarding and amc eagle. (no forum for amc so Jeep is next best thing) I have a 1988 eagle. Engine is out of an 1989 Jeep wrangler I believe. My exhaust pipes from the rear of the cat to the end of the pipe gets red hot while idleing. I have a short system cat short pipe muffler and pipe exiting in front of rear tire. It is also throwing a flame that looks like a propane torch flame. Blue and conicle in shape. I am hopeing to maybe get pointed in the right direction before I start tearing apart and checking everything. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

Paul

[oldbluecelica]

i dunno man, that sounds pretty cool like it is, are ya sure ya wanna give up a flame thrower?

[Eagle88]

yea looks cool, but it tends to start underside of car on fire. Seemed to narrow it down to the carter bbd on it. Thanks for the reply

[MagicRat]

Yes, its running way too rich. All the excess fuel is being burned or oxidized by the converter, which builds up heat.
Fix the carb, choke etc that is making it run rich.
Also your converter might be toast, too. When they overheat they start to melt inside and reduce exhaust flow and strangle the engine power.

[Eagle88]

Thanks for the replys. Car is fixed and running good. Had bad stepper motor on the carburator.

[Dsilver]

Good to hear man, but I think the flame was kinda cool.

[TheSilentChamber]

yeah, that sounds awsome, wish my car would do that, it runs rich enough to make you cry sometimes, but it has not cat heh, I should tune that carb one of these days.

[Dsilver]

Yes you should, and running that rich is probably killing your gas mileage, but this is an old post.