Last year I joined DTR and it reallly launched my personal diesel build up. At that time lots of smoke and over-fueling the **** out of your engine was the way to go and that is the direction I took my own pickup. Lately some of the same people who shared these views have went in a different direction. It seems that smoke is out and I am not really sure what is in now...Stacks perhaps! I am just interested in what caused this total shift from "How can I get this thing to smoke out the whole block?" to "O Man please don't say smoke around here that is a bad word." I injoy my truck the way it is but with this shift I have even caught myself second guessing somking out that little rice rocket at the stop light and even caught my self feeling bad when I am on the onramp to the highway and I am just rolling smoke out of my straight piped cummins. I really want to know what changed so please lets get some good/smart feedback and see what the hell happened to the good old days. Thanks!

 

my guess would be the new epa laws. its bad enough the`re changing fuel on us. but people in the U.S. just dont like diesel like everywhere else in the world!
it seems now that diesel power is getting popular. its more noticable for people to see the puff of smoke/fogging/etc from our vehicles

 

Maybe people are wising up to the consequences of their behavior. Kind of like the Tread Lightly program for offroad enthusiasts. Who wants to inhale clouds of particulates all day long?

 

I love diesel smoke, bring on the smoke. Deffinatly on the ricers.

 

I like smoke and everyone else around here does

 

Smoke is cool but smoking people out every second of the day is kids stuff.

I have smoked quite a few people in my day...but hey they deserved it (tailgaters).

 

EPA & MPG

 

I don't push smoke all the time, sometimes I forget to tune down and smoke innocent people or the environment . But when it is deserved the sun will be darkend. Tailgaters burn me up so they get smoked.
Gene007

 

I think everyone that has posted on this thread is right. Yeah, a nice big cloud is cool. But constant smoke is not good for the enviroment, fuel ecomomy, or our image with the non diesel loving public. There is a time and place for smoke.

 

I don't yet plume black clouds, but it's like a time and place for everything. On the interstate at 6:30 in rush hour traffic probably not the best, Friday night through town with a ricer off your tailpipe...yeah!!! Tailgaters? Well they deserve it too but to many innocent casualties!!

 

you shut your mouth! lol

 

Gale Banks= "Smoke is power you will never see"

True when you think about it. If you can actually burn the fuel your dumping out of the tailpipe think of the power gains you will get. not saying my truck dosent smoke or anything

 

I save most of my smoke for bicyclers that don't get on the freakin' shoulder where they belong....and the occasional power joker!

 

If you smoke, you just give all big diesel trucks a bad name in the public eye. A few bad apples concept almost exactly. Now the public, since they can see the pollution coming out of the tailpipe, think WE are the ones creating all the problems, because they can't see the pollution coming out of their tailpipes. Out of sight out of mind. In the interest of the environment and our public image, smoking needlessly should be avoided.
Rush

 

I Think This Feedback Is All True, There Is A Time And A Place. To My Knowledge There Are Currently no laws in my state regulating how much smoke can come out of your tailpipe. Other States? If they start regulating smoke that is when I am going to start getting really worried because although most of the trucks we own a way overfueld there is still a ton of power behind that smoke we all blow out and if they regulate smoke I feel that our trucks overall power my suffer and none of the diesel community wants that. Thanks for the feedback keep it coming!