You can usually get away with just putting it into high gear and letting it roal.

 

Dunno, been driving heavy/medium/light duty diesels since the early 80's and never had one smoke like that... admittedly never drove a Cummins.

 

Guess that's cause a real diesel doesn't smoke

 

True.. Most guys just want it to smoke and make it look fast.. When a truck dont pour black smoke like that is when you start to get worried about how fast that pig will be

 

Black smoke = too much fuel.

Grey smoke = too much air.

Mine pukes black if you stand on it in a higher gear before it's in the boost, but when the boost hits it burns completely clean. With mechanical injection there's not a ton one can do about it.



Believe it or not that guy isn't pushing an excessive amount of fuel. There are guys who can black out 4 lanes with their smoke... Pretty dumb IMO.

 

Just seems that is something that is terribly bad for an engine. Cause I dont understand diesels, but if a gasser was doing that something is way wrong....ok, back on topic.

 

Yea, diesels are a completely different animals, and it is normal for some smoke to occur because air to fuel ratios are less of an exact science. They vary with load/rpm etc. With a V8 when you step on the throttle you open the butterflies in the throttle body and the computer compensates by adding the right amount of fuel. With a diesel when you step on the throttle you are just squirting more fuel into the combustion chambers. There are no butterflies to restrict air/let air in. It's either boosting or just sucking it in at atmospheric pressure when under no boost. So when you add more fuel you make more power, to a point. After that point you just make smoke, and with all that smoke comes heat. Too much heat can kill a diesel in a hurry. But as long as one watches their exhaust temps it doesn't hurt to have a bit of fun

 

Looked and sounded like a real nice buggy, sucks what happened:

 

That last one makes me miss my T-Max.