Around here the law is written, any visible smoke for more than 5 seconds is illegal. That goes for any vehicle on the public roadways. Five seconds is more than plenty of time to get the snap throttle smoke out and turbo boost up. It's also against federal law to tamper with emissions equipment. Factory tuned fuel injection for acceptable exhaust emissions is emissions equipment. Increasing fuel delivery beyond factory settings and exceeding opacity limits can bring fines in the thousands for tampering with emissions equipment. Be glad your little redneck sheriff just wants to give you an equipment and moving violation ticket. Sounds like they're either ignorant or giving you a break. I'd rather see the full federal fines to the maximum brought on you for blowing a black cloud of childishness in my face. Hope the next guy you do that to isn't a federal judge in his car.
I remember city buses when I was little in the early '60's. The huge black cloud of smoke wasn't cool. It stunk like crazy. I also remember gas engines with their chokes on in winter. The stench was horrible. I wouldn't want to go back to those days. My hat's off to the EPA and emissions standards.
Here in Florida you'll lose your vehicle for drag racing too. And spectators are arrested.
I've owned four Cummins powered Rams and will likely own another in the next couple of years. Mine didn't smoke and my new one won't either.

 

Didnt smoke huh? Ill bet it did. My uncle has a BONE DEAD STOCK 98.5 24 valve that will shoot a decent puff every time he starts it. ANY diesel will smoke. There is just no way around it.

Eric

 

They better write a ticket to every edged box/or equivilant truck out there then. I appreciate it that you would like to see full federal fines brought on to me for blowing smoke. Now with that said i have my opinion who is acting childish.
Sounds to me like a electric hybrid is more for YOU. I take it you aren't an ol muscle car fan either?

 

maybe that's true, but a stock 90 doesn't smoke like a freight train so if it can, be easy on the throttle when needed, with the exception of a puff on startup or a tiny puff leaving a light while you're towing or trying to get into traffic, and I doubt small 'puffs' are going to get you into trouble. you CAN control it and if you can't, buy a Jetta. if people keep going around blacking out anything and everything you wish just because you can and you think it's cool just to be a "rebel" I guess? That's going to create more stringent laws and tougher enforcement,,,although I guess that might be good it might give everyone something else to complain about. Stop making it a problem and law makers will stop trying to correct the problem. Make any sense?

 

I guess you chose to ignore the other part of my post? Oh well.. I can clarify for you if you like? It's my truck, not yours. I bought the ECM/Injectors to increase HP/TQ. Smoke is a side effect of those mods, period. I can control smoke. I personally, don't blow smoke every chance I get. I took a picture of my truck smoking to show others how a MAD ECM will smoke. Do I think it cool? Sometimes, but I really could care less in the big picture. What I do think is cool is running 13's or better in the qtr mile. That's my goal. If any of you would like to pay for and put fuel in my truck, I would gladly drive it the way you would like me too. Just as I wouldn't live in a neighborhood where someone is going to tell me what kind of mailbox I can have or not have. I won't listen to someone tell me if my truck should or shouldn't blow smoke, even if I hated smoking trucks in the first place. It's almost like living in a Socialist country! SEE MY POINT.

If you want to go after someone, put pressure on the aftermarket manufactures to build big power with no smoke. If any of you "experts" have a way to make 400-500 hp without smoke, bring it to the market! I've yet to see it, but maybe I can't for the smoke...

I see a lot of reverse transference going on with some of these replys. SPS and "your manly". That's a good way to win a debate, really it is. I feel threatened.

Maybe some of you have read too much Thomas The Tank Engine!

http://www.hitentertainment.com/thom...usa/depot.html

 

My Dad is bigger than your dad!

 

I know your dog might have mine by a pound or two...

 

This picture has me freaked out! Am i seeing it right that a chain attached to the trailer hitch is the ONLY thing holding that truck in place???

Last dyno I was at, they used 4 straps minimum to the axles! (OK, the big Hp guys got 6 total)

That scares me..

 

Jim Lane,

You must be a criminal?? You have a gun in Kalifornia??!!

 

yes. but i wouldnt believe every vehicle with some/small-amounts of black smoke to be pulled over. rather, its a way for the cops to pull over a "known" polluting BOMBed diesel truck without having to see the heavy, thick soot. the cops know who the culprits are, this law enables them to have a legitimate way to pull them over. more power to them...

and the only reason the big companies have smoke belching out their trucks is the fact they cannot force (at the moment) anymore air into the combustion chamber. yes, they have fuel but if they had more air to that exact same amount of fuel they would have more power. it just so happens more fuel is easier to achieve than more air. how does the turbo aftermarket survive if fuel was the only thing developing this power?

grant you, there may be a special ratio of fuel/air they run to keep the combustion temps higher. why higher temps? to increase the enthaply difference across the turbos so they convert more heat energy to mechanical energy in terms of boost (and hopefully if the turbos are within map, more air). i still feel the amount of smoke they create is too much and they could use more air. triple turbos will be normal at some point, but how do you hold the head down and not blow gaskets? maybe thats the limiting factor with our sized engine as to why more air hasnt been achieved yet.

time will tell...

 

Sooo what your saying is that even if the "BOMBED"diesel isn't belching the smoke,rather just puff a little out because they couldn't help it that is a good idea to stop them huh?,because they are known culprates? Sounds a little shady doesn't it?

 

I don't understand all the hubub here, I think most all of us have the ability to adjust our mods to control smoke, do you really need all the the extra power just to run around town. I don't push near the HP as some of you but with the Comp Drag and RV 275 Injectors I can adjust smoke accordingly and not lose anything I could ever want to play with on the street. I luv the smoke but right time , right place. I luv to shoot guns to but living in town I don't go out the front door and do that.

 

A 12valve isn't the same. I cant hit the ol comp box switch. Mine is adjusted the way i want and i have no problems with it. Iv'e bumped the timing which got rid of alot of low end smoke but not all of it. I am still on the stock charger so it spools pretty quick.

 

I keep seeing posts by people who say that smoke is a side effect of power. True. "Haisley and Scheid do it, why can't I?" They're on a track. If that same truck is idling through town ( though I doubt they're very streetable at the power level they're at) I don't think they'd blow volcanic ash every time they hit the gas any amount. I bet even they don't chug the coal going up to the line. It IS controllable. I have 370's, a 100 plate, afc full forward and the starwheel cranked and I don't have to leave a cloud everytime I roll off a stop sign. I can. But I don't. It's a power play. Like I said, you do what you want, but the more you blatently blow smoke in town or in a crowded area, the more reason the police have to come after ANY truck that smokes even a little. Just like cruising a drag car on the street. It CAN go 120mph in 10 seconds,,,but should you on a public street? It's up to us. We can act like teenagers and flaunt what we got, while we're allowed to have it. Or we can be semi-responsible adults and use some common sense and keep the laws off our back.

 

Huh?... Could you be so kind to tell me what are you talking about?
No I am not and yes I sure do, quite a few of them.
Once you have had a NDE your whole attitude for life changes and you will do whatever it takes to preserve that.
I can honestly say that I have not even been pulled over in the last 15 years of driving. I have a Class1 CDL with endorsements and that has been renewed by mail 4 times already. All I have to do is have a physical every 2 years, so I must be doing something right.
Jim