When will it end
How much more powerful can new trucks get? I mean seriously it can't continue like it is with new engines doubling in power over the last 15-20 years. My kid will be driving a 1000hp daily driver and ...
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Some of you don't know how a diesel engine works by some of the replies.
A diesel engine is throttled by the amount of fuel that it is given by your right foot at any given time. Always was from the very first one. At idle, the air to fuel might be 100 to 1. At full power it might be 8 to 1.
With a "diesel engine" you are the master of your fuel economy with your right foot. Want better economy? Don't press so hard with your right foot. Want more power? Press harder with your right foot.
And before the whiners and nit pickers start, let me say this right now. Yes I know that if you put a tuner on your engine and jack the timing to the moon you may pick up a slight amount of efficiency. I also know that your NOX will go out of sight on the smog machine so the OEM people can't do this.
Right now at this time "almost" every single molecule of fuel is burned in a gasoline engine. Go read your smog printout if you don't believe me. Mine in a 10 YO car has 0 HC's coming out of the pipe. How do you get below 0 anyway?
Ut oh, I can hear the nit pickers again and they want to talk about that pesky efficiency number. They say, "well what about that 20% efficiency number for those gasoline engines." "What about that, hu!"
Well how do you propose to capture more heat or even more noise that comes out of the tail pipe for more work? Yes, even the noise that comes out of the pipe is wasted energy. How do you propose to get bearing and ring drag down to zero?
You want better fuel mileage? Buy a smaller truck with less HP. Buy an Ecodiesel. "But then I can't tow my 38' 5er" you say? Too bad, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Choose economy or power............or something in between. You can't have all three or even two at once. You want clean air? It's going to take some energy (fuel) to do this too.
A diesel engine is throttled by the amount of fuel that it is given by your right foot at any given time. Always was from the very first one. At idle, the air to fuel might be 100 to 1. At full power it might be 8 to 1.
With a "diesel engine" you are the master of your fuel economy with your right foot. Want better economy? Don't press so hard with your right foot. Want more power? Press harder with your right foot.
And before the whiners and nit pickers start, let me say this right now. Yes I know that if you put a tuner on your engine and jack the timing to the moon you may pick up a slight amount of efficiency. I also know that your NOX will go out of sight on the smog machine so the OEM people can't do this.
Right now at this time "almost" every single molecule of fuel is burned in a gasoline engine. Go read your smog printout if you don't believe me. Mine in a 10 YO car has 0 HC's coming out of the pipe. How do you get below 0 anyway?
Ut oh, I can hear the nit pickers again and they want to talk about that pesky efficiency number. They say, "well what about that 20% efficiency number for those gasoline engines." "What about that, hu!"
Well how do you propose to capture more heat or even more noise that comes out of the tail pipe for more work? Yes, even the noise that comes out of the pipe is wasted energy. How do you propose to get bearing and ring drag down to zero?
You want better fuel mileage? Buy a smaller truck with less HP. Buy an Ecodiesel. "But then I can't tow my 38' 5er" you say? Too bad, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Choose economy or power............or something in between. You can't have all three or even two at once. You want clean air? It's going to take some energy (fuel) to do this too.
