What will happen to a car if you put a bannanna in the tail pipe?

[coloradodem2005]

Will it stall?

[Ready4Change]

1. Assuming

The exhaust system doesn't have any leaks, and you can get the banana(s) in there good enough to not get blown back out again, yes, the engine will stall.

Engines effectively need to breath. (Air and fuel in, exhaust out.) Try not exhaling for a while. Pretty much the same thing will happen to the car.

[hlthe2b]

2. possibly... but you can force carbon monoxide into the car....

NOT A GOOD IDEA!

[slutticus]

3. I've heard potatoes work better, but

bananas seemed to work fine for Axel Foley.

[amber dog democrat]

4. This was a WW II thing European Resistance fighters

did to German trucks - using a stick to push potatos up exhaust pipes.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

5. I went to High School with a girl that did that to a Teacher

It burnt the motor up in his car.

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Mythbusters did this lately; think they concluded it was a hoax

You could check the Discovery Channel's site; Mythbusters is a show on that channel where two Hollywood special effects guys try to debunk various urban legends and other myths. Pretty fun stuff usually.

[soothsayer]

7. I dunno, but it will NOT be the best banana split you ever had (n/t)

[jukes]

8. don't know about bananas per se

but a blocked exhaust pipe will stall the engine. backed into a mud bank on a dirt road a while back, car stalled, took me a few to realize the tail pipe was packed w/dirt. scraped it out, started fine.



a 12 ga shotshell, glued into a tailpipe won't stall a car, but can be quite amusing (& possibly deadly, it cd burst & ignite the fuel tank if too close) my HS prank was, thankfully, not injurious to anything but that stupid jock's dad-bought exhaust system.

[tcfrogs]

9. Wow, who do you hate so much that you'd put a banana...

...in their tail pipe...????

[coloradodem2005]

11. Axel Foley.

My name is Rosewood and I have been dying to get back at him for 20 years for doing that to me. (joking) :evilgrin:

[yellowcanine]

10. Yes, unless there is an exhaust leak. Actually this is a good way to

check if there is an exhaust leak. Potato probably works better, though. Less messy.