isnt the banks theory smoke is lost power or something like that if you could harness all the power in the fuel that you smoke now that would be one powerful truck. but to be honest I like a lil smoke it reminds me that I am a diesel. I dont want to black out intersections or highways but just a puff or haze is kinda nice every now and then.

 

build your truck for power and the smoke will come.....

i have yet to see a drag or sled truck that dosen't smoke.....

 

thats what i ws thinking.... so are they wrong???
some one must think it's a good thing? but why?

 

From what I've understood the smoke is partially burt fuel, meaning your running too rich at the moment. Rich means more fuel than air, which is better than too little fuel becuase then your air goes way down. Notice if you put injectors in your truck it will get more boost. I don't think its possible to make a diesel that doesn't make some amount of soot. Even my friend's LBZ Duramax that's bone stock smokes a little once in a while.

I think it looks way cool myself.

 

Got a have extra fuel to light that charger but ideally I would think you wouldn't want smoke once your there with well matched parts and good tuning.

 

The more time spent on custom tuning the less smoke will come out the pipe for street driving. Drag racing needs to add fuel for lighting the larger turbo but with a matched turbo to top-end HP the smoke should clean up. Twin turbo's will allow the quick ingestion of air down low (little smoke) and massive ingestion up top (little smoke). Or you can add Nitrous for the air up top.

Smoke is really hurting the diesel performance industry and the more conscious we are about minimizing smoke the better survival rate we will have with our hot rod trucks. Typical new comers to the diesel world need to be educated by all of us to do the right thing in representing our hobby (smokeless) in their community.

Very common comment a few days after I tune a diesel: How come I don't have smoke? My friend has more than I do when we race.
Did you beat him?
Yep.
:confused:


Notice minimal smoke is coming from my stack while I'm warming the tires.

 

Our sport is growing greatly. I think soon we will see the big guys running fuel air mixture monitors to try and fine tune better with the electronic injection. Now the guys running the P-pumps or the VE's on the Cummins will always smoke. With having set timing and trying to light big chargers for competition it is really hard to clean it up.

Andy

 

I have been doing some reading on smoke, just to find out what the deal is after a guy blew some smoke after he passed me. I was towing my '77 on a trailer.

IMO, it is a "look at me, I'm cool and have a fast truck" thing.

After the second time it happened (this guy blew so much smoke I couldn't see the road) I floored my stock OBS 7.3 and kept up with this guy, so he wasn't that fast.

 

I agree, most ask for a smoke file to do just what you said. They want to bring attention to themselves. Not the right thing to do.

 

no smoke must be a gasser j/k
nice rig!

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i always thought smoke meant power.. until i got thinking the other day. i guess it's kinda obvious. but just never thought about it.