Diesel "loudness"?

Gdetrailer wrote:

WTP-GC wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:


MANY diesel owners DO remove sound AND emission equipment..

I see AND HEAR that pretty much on a daily basis, my house is only 40ft from the road, well insulated, double pane windows and yet have MANY PICKUP TRUCKS fly by making MORE NOISE AND BLACK SMOKE than the 18 wheelers that drive the same road by my house.

In the summer it gets so bad on the weekends I can't even sit out on my front porch :M

Have you ever wondered about the diesels leaving the big black clouds of smoke when accelerating? Yep, those owners HAVE indeed not only removed emission equipment but HAVE also added a "programmer" which tricks the computer into thinking the emissions stuff is present AND dumps tons of fuel into the cylinders to create that lovely choking black cloud..

Its called "rolling coal".. Look it up and read about it.

Sadly, those folks have done this to satisfy their ego's, giving diesels yet another "black eye"..

Sorry to hear that you live next to the road and your quality of life is so poorly affected. Stop and think for one minute that MANY diesel owners make modifications to their trucks to increase power and/or performance for a good reason...and its doubtful that they did this specifically to make you angry. I'll take it that you've never made any modification to anything you've ever owned to positively affect its characteristics? Now we wouldn't want to be throwing rocks at our own glass house, of course.

Naturally, your rant includes some falsehoods that displays your way of thinking. Essentially anyone that has a vehicle louder than you like, smokier than you like, etc. apparently has an uncontrollable ego. Its reasonable to understand that your privileges should easily trump theirs, I guess.

Here in FL, you have to "roll coal" for 5 consecutive seconds before your in violation. Simply removing the emissions equipment isn't always against the law.

YOU are "full of arrogance".

I DO OWN a diesel powered tractor, sure it isn't a huge displacement but even on a cold winter morning it BARELY smokes on cold startup and even when lugging under load at max RPM it does not create a thick black smoke cloud that is strong enough to hide the noon sun.

A PROPER RUNNING diesel even under full load should not be rolling coal.. Even over the road 18 wheelers built in the past 20 or even 30 years will give off a slight puff of smoke when under heavy load..

You are also very arrogant to believe that altering OR removing any part on your vehicle does not "violate" any laws.. It IS called TAMPERING with emissions.

Tampering with anything that alters the operation of your vehicles emissions IS a FEDERAL OFFENSE.. Your state may not "regulate" diesel emissions NOW, but some day soon you won't be able to escape the fact that it WILL eventually.

Now granted if you are playing with OLDER NON EMISSIONS diesel engines then there is no violation.. BUT still adding excessive fuel just to MAKE smoke is being foolish, doing so is creating more harmful soot along with other smog..

Overfueling DOES NOT "CREATE" MORE POWER, it simply wastes more fuel than the engine can burn properly, hence the huge cloud of thick choking smoke.

Your arrogance is one of the reasons why new diesels have so much mamby pamby emission equipment..

You were batting a 1000 until you made the statement "Overfueling DOES NOT "CREATE" MORE POWER"

It does. A diesel does not really have a stoichiometric ratio. The more fuel you put to it the more power it makes until it hydro locks or melts down.

These people don't spend 100's of thousands of dollars to look cool by rolling coal. They make power by putting the fuel to it and boy to they make power!

Here is a truck I race against. And believe me, this guy can tune a diesel. At over 140 lbs of boost, he's putting about as much air through it he can! :E I pick the left lane when I can. :B

BTW there is nothing louder than a 12V with the timing cranked up IMHO!