the official OBS diesel off topic thread
Reminds me of the other day a guy came into the SAE lab and we got to talkin about his new to him 3rd gen Iroc camaro. He wants to run sequentials and hit 1000hp at some point.
But anyway we have a Navistar 2013 Maxxforce sitting in the hallway of our engineering building. He was commenting on the turbo setup and how with those two big mambas you could break double digit boost!
Now, I'm no force induction guru, but I had to school him a bit on forced induction on diesels. lol I told him about my mostly stock 97 can make close to 20psi. He about shat himself.
Told him he needs to do a diesel swap into that Iroc.
Also, those gassers have the capability of running huge amounts of boost, but they limit boost via wastegates to keep from exploding the engine into a million pieces. We just let the turbo build all the boost it can and don't usually have to worry about it with the correct turbo because we don't spin 6000+ RPMs.
Daily driving situation, probably so.. I'm just saying, we can't forget what gas engines are capable of in comparison to what we're dealing with when it comes to performance. They can do way more than us. Granted the performance world does cater to them and it's quite a bit cheaper, so more R&D gets done as more people are buying parts. If we had the parts availability, prices, and R&D that the gasser world has, we'd be a lot farther in the game. LOL It makes me sad and makes me want to play with gassers again.
On a different note, I stopped by my friends real quick to take a look at his car. It looks like his brand new AMG Benz has smoked a turbo. Less than 2k miles. I said, well they'll cover that as I got into my 200k mile truck with the stocker still kickin!
Yeah, just looking at some house projects now too. Gotta get a couple retaining walls built before winter - got some sluffing off of a hillside happening and when wet weather gets here to stay, it won't be pretty. Good thing is I can build that stuff myself so it's just material costs.
Sucks to be him with the new Benz with a smoked turbo. Mine's doing fine too at 266K....
Sucks to be him with the new Benz with a smoked turbo. Mine's doing fine too at 266K....
Awesome! I totally forgot about that. I'll get things going asap.
Sheriffs deputy actually just came by and gave me "evacuation orders". Doesnt mean a whole lot. The wind shifted today and theyre worried about embers coming down. The fire is still about 10 miles out and my entire property is green. I'll worry when I see flames over the mountain.
Sheriffs deputy actually just came by and gave me "evacuation orders". Doesnt mean a whole lot. The wind shifted today and theyre worried about embers coming down. The fire is still about 10 miles out and my entire property is green. I'll worry when I see flames over the mountain.
Awesome! I totally forgot about that. I'll get things going asap. Sheriffs deputy actually just came by and gave me "evacuation orders". Doesnt mean a whole lot. The wind shifted today and theyre worried about embers coming down. The fire is still about 10 miles out and my entire property is green. I'll worry when I see flames over the mountain.
Sheesh, Rick. Hope you stay safe from that mess.
You know, I was having this conversation with a buddy last night that for all the cold we see here in the winter Ohio isn't a bad place to live. No wildfires, no earthquakes, only an occasional tornado, no hurricanes, no bugs as big as your hand, no poisonous snakes, and nothing in your back yard that is liable to eat you! I guess it's just not too exciting, lol.
You know, I was having this conversation with a buddy last night that for all the cold we see here in the winter Ohio isn't a bad place to live. No wildfires, no earthquakes, only an occasional tornado, no hurricanes, no bugs as big as your hand, no poisonous snakes, and nothing in your back yard that is liable to eat you! I guess it's just not too exciting, lol.
Sheesh, Rick. Hope you stay safe from that mess.
You know, I was having this conversation with a buddy last night that for all the cold we see here in the winter Ohio isn't a bad place to live. No wildfires, no earthquakes, only an occasional tornado, no hurricanes, no bugs as big as your hand, no poisonous snakes, and nothing in your back yard that is liable to eat you! I guess it's just not too exciting, lol.
You know, I was having this conversation with a buddy last night that for all the cold we see here in the winter Ohio isn't a bad place to live. No wildfires, no earthquakes, only an occasional tornado, no hurricanes, no bugs as big as your hand, no poisonous snakes, and nothing in your back yard that is liable to eat you! I guess it's just not too exciting, lol.
And yes, stay safe out there Rick.