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JimM68
Sep 08, 2014Explorer
Wow..... you old guys sure do hate progress?
The original cummins ISL was what, 300 hp?
My 2008 DPF engine is 360...
A new one, with DEF, is what, 425 now?
So much for power...
I'm no fan of the government.... or the EPA, but really...
Just to use cars as an example, my Jeep wrangler is 14 years old. It has a multiport injected ODBll versionos AMC's venerable 4.0 liter inline six...
It has 279,400 miles on it.
It requires zero maintenance (Ichange the dino oil and filter every 10k just to make myself feel good, that 4-0 don't care) It uses zero oil between changes. It runs like a top, always...
Iremember cars from the "good old days"...
They ate spark plugs every 10,000 miles...
got 10mpg or worse.
Pinged like the devil if you got a load of bad gas...
And rusted to dust before they were ten years old...
The original cummins ISL was what, 300 hp?
My 2008 DPF engine is 360...
A new one, with DEF, is what, 425 now?
So much for power...
I'm no fan of the government.... or the EPA, but really...
Just to use cars as an example, my Jeep wrangler is 14 years old. It has a multiport injected ODBll versionos AMC's venerable 4.0 liter inline six...
It has 279,400 miles on it.
It requires zero maintenance (Ichange the dino oil and filter every 10k just to make myself feel good, that 4-0 don't care) It uses zero oil between changes. It runs like a top, always...
Iremember cars from the "good old days"...
They ate spark plugs every 10,000 miles...
got 10mpg or worse.
Pinged like the devil if you got a load of bad gas...
And rusted to dust before they were ten years old...
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