Originally Posted by cumminscr
(Post 293913)
hate to say this but who cares? soot goes in the ground! once i get my truck im rollin coal on every lil civic i see with a fart can:choochoo:
Originally Posted by cumminscr
(Post 293939)
cummins freak- this is true, just tryin to say my opnion
Don't get me wrong, I hate fart cans but smoking out every rice rocket you see is like sport bikes and suburbans revving on each other, it's just dumb. If they wanna go fast'n'furious on yer truck, by all means, drive circles around 'em and leave them in a cloud. |
Originally Posted by toy4xchris
(Post 286454)
I saw something today that kind of made me think a lil truck passed me with a mobile diesel smoke test sticker in the back window so because of this I decided that I should say some stuff. I know some of these links are older I figured at the rate that diesel popularity is growing as well as this site I figured informing some people newer to diesels some of the issues we are fighting.
Rolling Smokestacks - Strong regulations are needed to clean up diesel tracks and buses A Smoking Gun - Environmental Defense Fund I know I may be smashing on the fun of rolling some coal throughout the neighborhood but just remember be careful of who you let have it because you never know who they are thank you for listening and looking at the links hope this helps some people understand what we have to put up with to enjoy what we have. P.S. I am not an anti-smoke guy it has its time and place just don't think excessive amounts is needed on the road if you wanna smoke like a train do it on the track and not into the windows of fellow drivers vehicles /Rant off/ Eventually, we all know it will become a track-only thing, and possibly that will be phased out as well, just as leaded gasoline was recently phased out from Nascar. |
but blowing smoke is so much fun :w2:
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Just to be real honest here about the perceptions of the gasser drivers around us. When we blow smoke, we think it looks cool. When we blow smoke they are thinkin what a junk ass truck. To them smokin means it's junk not HP or cool.
Personally when I see a truck blowin smoke all over the roadway I just think about what a piece a junk air intake they must be runnin to be wastin all that fuel and horsepower they could be makin. |
Originally Posted by cumminscr
(Post 293939)
cummins freak- this is true, just tryin to say my opnion
Thank you all that understand where we are at with our sport and what it will take to keep it growing in the right direction :U: :c: |
i agree with the fact that i love blowing black smoke even though i probably own the 2 least smoking diesels you can have besides the DPF'd motors that dont smoke at all. i also think that 80 to 85 percent on the people on this site agree with me too.
but the only way more people are going to start buying diesel powered vehicles and more people get into diesel motorsports (ex. Sled pulling, Drag racing, Dyno runs, Pulloffs) is if we clean up our trucks and make them clean without them belching black smoke and making black clouds of soot across highways and roads. i think of the diesel industry as it is today like drag racing and salt flat racing in bonneville in the the 1940's and 1950's. it is very popular in a small group of people but in the mainstream it is frowned upon and not very popular. the only way diesel is going to become popular is if we become somewhat clean. In 1972 when the EPA started really cracking down on emmisions big block V-8s were making 180 horespower and getting horrible fuel mileage. people were ripping off their cats off and replacing the restrictive intake manifolds and getting bigger cams to replace all the emmission equipment that the manufacter put on their to pass emmision and make the enviroment cleaner. sound familar? its excalty what most peope do to there 6.4L powerstrokes, LMM duramaxes, and 6.7 cummins to get more power and increase fuel mileage. theres nothing wrong with that but once you put a programmer on these trucks they start to really smoke. well now a corvette can make 650 horespower get 20 MPG and has 4 catalyic converters and is a whole lot cleaner than the 1972 emmision V-8 cars. what im basically saying is as technolgy increases so will the abiltily to make more power. ATS for an example is making a high flow DPF exhuast. i dont agree with what they found on ATS computers with ratting on other diesel performance companys but that is a whole other story. basically if companys try to put more money and interst in this more products will come out to allow us to get performance and fuel mileage out of these trucks without ripping out all the emmision equipment on them |
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