Bully Dog and SCT Settles With Feds
Derive Systems on Monday agreed to pay $6.25 million to improve internal compliance procedures and pay a civil penalty of $300,000 to settle charges that it sold 363,000 aftermarket emissions control ...
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ShinerBock wrote:CarterKraft wrote:
All the gas engine performance parts go out of their way to sell products that comply (carb ratings etc.) while diesel tuners knowingly sell defeat devices for brand new trucks, hardly a "offroad" application.
This is false. Most if not all gas tuners like Bully Dog and SCT cause your gas engine to put out higher emissions and hardly any of them are CARB certified. Some gas engine performance parts parts are CARB certified, but many aren't.
But would you say a non cerified gas engine tune on a stock engine is the same as a tune to delete/or deactivate emissions equipment?
You can't say a deleted diesel burns cleaner than a stock one or we wouldn't have put DPF's/SCR on them in the first place.
When is the last time a modern gasoline engine had EGR?
A tuned gasoline engine with cats and all emissions equipment in tact is allot different than a stock tuned diesel with emissions equipment removed/deactivated.
