As I child I remember taking the usual sunday stroll looking at open houses with my parents. (ahh, good ole memories) Anyways, I also remember seeing big trucks blowing black smoke everywhere. As for mine, it hardly blows any, even with my TS 6 set to 140hp, just a very little amount of smoke. I have the muffler back cut out as of now and plan on going with a 5 inch back to a 7 inch tip. Now here's the thing, I hate smoke from other trucks. As a kid, it was pretty cool, but now just seems like a waste of money for the most part, however, there are times that I wish I could blow smoke to get the ricer civics off my azz. I know with the EPA, and all the BS nowadays, it wouldn't be good to roll around town everyday wasting fuel and making an *** out of myself, but rolling coal here and there would be nice to do. (Mainly to get the local ricers off my back) My fiancé's step father has a cummins 3500, I believe a 1998, straight piped, no tuner, chip, nothing like that, bone stock other than lift and welding bed from what I know. Today we used it to pull over a tree and I have never seen so much black smoke. In short, my question is why do so many trucks nowadays smoke, but mine won't? I'm nearing 20, so still a kid at heart but an adult when I need to be, so smoke would be "cool" IMO sometimes, but would be used rarely if I was able.

 

Stock injectors are to small, get some big injectors. Your TS and stock injectors are only good for 60 extra hp.

 

Stock injectors are not going to smoke as they are too small to begin with. You're pretty much restricted to about 60 HP max over stock due to the small injector size.

As you stated, black smoke is not a good thing and is a waste of fuel. I've been on a quest to eliminate my black smoke since upgrading injectors. A 4/4 billet compressor wheel, T500 HPOP did a lot to help, but fixing my EBPS has done the most for clearing up smoke.

If you plan on hanging on to your truck for a while then you're in the right place to learn what mods should come first and how to achieve exactly what you want.

 

Diesel tuning has also come a long long way since we were kids. Theyre able to get much more power with far less smoke these days.

 

your father in laws truck smokes like a steam locomotive because it is a dodge with a turd of an engine in it.
smoking engines are inefficient engines that are just waiting to blow up from extremely high exhaust temperatures.
plus black smoke is unburnt fuel.
as for the ricers, i found the best way to make them back off is to just get out of the throttle real fast while in a lower gear and let them drive under the back bumper because they did not see any brake lights.
they get the message real quick.

 

I can neither confirm nor deny having personally done this in the past.

 

My Dad did this once with the big old weight distribution hitch sticking out of the receiver of his '75 F150. Put that hitch right through the guy's radiator. I was fifteen years old and the only thing I had seen cooler than that was the look on my Dad's face right afterwards when he looked over at me in the passenger seat smiling from ear to ear and winked at me! That was the moment that I knew for a fact that my Dad was a bad a$$! LOL!!!

 

Story is awesome but I hate to tell ya. He was a ba and I know that from being your buddy!!!

 

Like father, like son! LOL For example, poor guy trying to break into your barn

 

all your going to do is **** off the person behind you by blowing smoke onto them, I mean unless you are intentionally wanting to do it to evoke an altercation.

 

PSH all I have to do is take mine out of stock and anybody behind me will need a car wash.
I try not to tho.its not cool. All that fuel does get the boost going tho!!!