Andyinchville1
Veteran Member
HI All,
I know coal rolling is generally frowned upon because it gives Diesels a bad rap and is in actuality hard on our vehicles (extra stress from having to load up the engine to generate "coal" , pollution , sooting up our oil etc...). so that made me think of ways to make "healthy" coal !
Back ground :
I was driving the highway about a week or two ago when I came up on a beautiful huge motor home pulling an equally huge trailer ....
It was pulling surprisingly fast for such a large vehicle even up a moderate grade .... I was thoroughly impressed by its beauty ,largness and speed ! wow !
The hill got steeper and I closed in to pass .... he was maintaining speed seemingly with no issue at all but I had to accelerate moderately hard to pass.
As I got closer, he must have floored it because out came this huge cloud of black smoke ! Whoa this hugh beautiful mobile home rolling coal!
It wasn't for real long and I suspect it was just a quick downshift I thought .... BUT then again as I neared ....another huge belch of coal !! wow ....
Ok I see how it is I thought .....
With that I passed him (yea he was surprisingly fast for such a big Mobile home set up so I had to push pretty hard to get by) BUT after I passed him and got back in the right lane I did and I let out a little coal of my own ;-) (not really black tho (like his) since my car runs clean but something came out ...maybe just a haze from left over soot between italian tune ups?)
Anyways, I'm pretty sure he was surprised because how many diesel cars are there ?! HA
Now admittedly, I did give him 2 doses like he did me and even an extra one for good measure ....
I could have done this all the way up the long grade if need be and all the way to the next town some 15 miles away but I did not want to abuse my car .....
(yes, I thought about him with a dash cam maybe reporting me (but I think I'm more of a haze since I'm overboosting .... 24 psi with a VNT 15 !) for that BUT I have my own front and rear dash cam so I guess that would have been like MAD (mutually assured destruction) between the USA and Russia ha).
Anyways, that got me to thinking about making "healthy" non abusive coal !!
NO Issues with the EPA , NOT abusive to the car for reasons as mentioned above etc .....
Drum Roll Please .....
I was thinking about making a car version (of course tuned down but maybe adjustable) of an aircraft smoke system.
It uses bio oils so healthy to the max (I guess ha) , is not abusive to the vehicle and the EPA should NOT have issue with it ... heck it is sold to make smoke (altho white but maybe color it somehow) .... ohhhh decorator grade coal !
So what do you think .... Healthy coal anyone ? ;-)
Andrew
I know coal rolling is generally frowned upon because it gives Diesels a bad rap and is in actuality hard on our vehicles (extra stress from having to load up the engine to generate "coal" , pollution , sooting up our oil etc...). so that made me think of ways to make "healthy" coal !
Back ground :
I was driving the highway about a week or two ago when I came up on a beautiful huge motor home pulling an equally huge trailer ....
It was pulling surprisingly fast for such a large vehicle even up a moderate grade .... I was thoroughly impressed by its beauty ,largness and speed ! wow !
The hill got steeper and I closed in to pass .... he was maintaining speed seemingly with no issue at all but I had to accelerate moderately hard to pass.
As I got closer, he must have floored it because out came this huge cloud of black smoke ! Whoa this hugh beautiful mobile home rolling coal!
It wasn't for real long and I suspect it was just a quick downshift I thought .... BUT then again as I neared ....another huge belch of coal !! wow ....
Ok I see how it is I thought .....
With that I passed him (yea he was surprisingly fast for such a big Mobile home set up so I had to push pretty hard to get by) BUT after I passed him and got back in the right lane I did and I let out a little coal of my own ;-) (not really black tho (like his) since my car runs clean but something came out ...maybe just a haze from left over soot between italian tune ups?)
Anyways, I'm pretty sure he was surprised because how many diesel cars are there ?! HA
Now admittedly, I did give him 2 doses like he did me and even an extra one for good measure ....
I could have done this all the way up the long grade if need be and all the way to the next town some 15 miles away but I did not want to abuse my car .....
(yes, I thought about him with a dash cam maybe reporting me (but I think I'm more of a haze since I'm overboosting .... 24 psi with a VNT 15 !) for that BUT I have my own front and rear dash cam so I guess that would have been like MAD (mutually assured destruction) between the USA and Russia ha).
Anyways, that got me to thinking about making "healthy" non abusive coal !!
NO Issues with the EPA , NOT abusive to the car for reasons as mentioned above etc .....
Drum Roll Please .....
I was thinking about making a car version (of course tuned down but maybe adjustable) of an aircraft smoke system.
It uses bio oils so healthy to the max (I guess ha) , is not abusive to the vehicle and the EPA should NOT have issue with it ... heck it is sold to make smoke (altho white but maybe color it somehow) .... ohhhh decorator grade coal !
So what do you think .... Healthy coal anyone ? ;-)
Andrew
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