Well that's good to know...

 

The Supreme Court just ruled yesterday that, yes, gun manufacturers can be held accountable.

 

Technically, the Supreme Court didn't do that. What they did do was allow a case to proceed to the Supreme Court. It still has to be argued there.

 

It's just insane that this stuff keeps getting traction. That's why we know have warning labels on everything from coffee cups (WARNING CONTENTS HOT... no ******* **** really?!?!), plastic shopping bags and clear bags that toys come in ( "WARNING DO NOT PLACE OVER YOUR HEAD AND FACE; MAY CAUSE ASPHYXIATION." ) to the ridiculous nozzles we now have to deal with on fuel containers. What's next for firearms, warning labels that say, "WARNING MAY CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURIES AND/OR DEATH." engraved on the gun in stark white letters? Thank God we have the gov't to help stupid people save themselves from each other. When the hell are people going to be held responsible for their OWN ACTIONS and not inanimate objects that need human interaction to function??? This she yett is out of control.

 

I sure wish that signing a piece of paper stating that my tractor would only be used off road would work. I would've bought more than the 25hp tractor that I got, in order to avoid having a DPF and SCR to deal with. I'm not sure that farm tractors or heavy construction equipment can be any better example of "off-road use only". I have seen examples of a hot DPF (during regen) on a 100hp farm tractor setting a dry field on fire. I have even read an article that a forestry service brush truck started a grass fire during regen. Keep in mind this is a truck designed to PUT OUT fires! It really ought not be starting them simply by operating as designed.

 

That is crazy to be sure. But the fact is, at least with the stock guys, we all have an incinerator under our trucks that heaven forbid, if the fuel started leaking after the truck was in an accident during a regen, there would be problems for sure.

 

You can delete all of that emissions equipment on a tractor as long as they make the tuning for it. I don't think any state does emissions testing on farm tractors.

 

I haven't found any tuning or aftermarket support for deleting DPF/SCR from farm tractors. I'm obviously not looking in the right places. Even just trying to find a turbo system to add to my mechanical injection tractor is proving to be a PITA.

 

I love the fact that the way Goggle spies on you so they can know what to send to the feed or ads to show. I look at a lot of truck **** on my phone. This just came through the Google feed.

https://blog.diesellaptops.com/2019/...tes-and-tunes/

 

You can turn off Google's ability to track you. The Incognito feature can also be used. I don't know that it's 100% secure, but I do use it every once in a while for sites that require cookies or news sites that track the number of "free" visits I get.

Back to deleting, I'm glad I'm completely satisfied with the power and how clean my tailpipe emissions are.

 

After the exchange between Y2K and myself, I wanted to look into Gale Banks more. I found out a lot about the man here:

https://official.bankspower.com/abou...nks-biography/

From that link is written the following:

To call Gale Banks an engineer would be an understatement, scientist would be a more accurate term. Those who have seen him work his magic with internal combustion and technology, mad scientist might even be more appropriate. As president of Gale Banks Engineering, an automotive aftermarket and performance equipment manufacturer, Gale Banks has spent more than a half a century improving internal combustion technology in the development of modern motor vehicle engines. As a teenager growing up near Los Angeles in the 50s, blessed with a talent for things mechanical, Gale Banks was naturally drawn to the Southern California Hot Rodders, the do-it-yourselfers who would race their machines in the desert, the dry lakes and the salt flats. It was all about power and speed, two characteristics that would define Gale Banks his whole life

Banks sold his first engine in 1958, as a 16-year old. He opened a speed shop so he could pay his tuition to California Polytechnic University. His education was with equal parts in the classrooms and in the garage. He counts among his many mentors PhDs, government research scientists, even Nobel prize winners, plus a whole host of grease monkeys and car enthusiasts.

His development and promotion of his twin-turbocharging technique for both gas and diesel engines has made his name synonymous with high-performance, both on land and on water. Many vehicles of his design have set numerous national and international speed records.

Since 1976 Gale Banks Engineering has been involved in building and supplying engines and systems to defense contractors and directly to the Military, as well. Over those 38 years every military Gale Banks Engine has had one dominant feature; they’ve all been turbocharged. At first, their Twin Turbo, Intercooled Marine Engines, ran on gasoline, more recently, their marine and wheeled vehicle military applications all run Diesel. And, currently, the tactical military fuel requirement for all engines has moved to JP-8, high performance jet fuel.

Most of his company’s work on special fast attack marine engines for the Navy is still classified as are a few other such projects aimed at radically improving both the power and reliability of existing and new engine designs.

On the aftermarket side, Banks Power designs, manufacturers and markets cold air intake systems, turbochargers, intercoolers, electronic gas and diesel programmers, instrumentation, transmission controllers, exhaust systems, torque converters, and complete power systems for commercial and motor sport applications plus some interesting military applications that he will not discuss.

Banks holds eleven patents, hundreds of copyrights and received numerous industry commendations over the years. He has served on the board of the Specialty Equipment Market Association, advisory board of the Automotive X-Prize Foundation, and on the Board of Directors for the National Hot Rod Association Museum Board.

In December of 2008 the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, at the Pomona Fairplex, opened a special exhibit celebrating ‘The First 50 Years of Banks Power.” The exhibit takes up one full exhibit hall of the museum and features record-breaking Banks vehicles, engines, and a 65 foot long “timeline” which covers the highlights of Banks’ company from it’s earliest “one-man-shop” to the corporate entity that it now is.

In March of 2009 Banks was honored with a Distinguished Service Citation from the Automotive Hall of Fame, a distinction that has been given annually since 1940. One of only five people to receive such recognition this year, he was also the first ever awardee from the aftermarket industry.

Today, Gale Banks Engineering is located in Azusa California on a 12-acre campus. He consults with various OEM companies on a variety of issues including turbocharging, fuel injection, engine efficiencies and clean burning alternative fuel technologies.

The reason I bring this up is two fold: one, I'm just posting this here for the people with open minds and two, to not see the knowledge and experience this dude has, to not see what he has done throughout his career and his drive for SPEED means one of two things. ONE: you are ignorant of the facts and/or TWO: it's an emotional argument for you.

Some people side step what's on their minds here and some do not. I obviously am in the later group. Opinions vary here, I get that... But when someone is negative with conjecture and hearsay only without the true facts, all that's true to them, is their own opinion. Basically, it just comes down to haters gonna hate. Have a great day folks.

P.S. With the amount of engineering that went into the Derringer Tuner, it is on the forefront in this current age of EPA enforcement on the tuners. I believe he will hold a good percentage of the market with this tuner, when it comes to emissions ON tuning. I believe that people like PPE, Calibrated Power Services and others will further their technology and tunes into efficient emissions ON ECM flash tuning. I bring this up because this is the future. There will still be the delete guys, however small, doing delete tunes. There will still be money in it but I don't it will advance, if at all, the way the new emissions on stuff will. In order to be on the main stage and out in front, it has to be complaint tuning. This will make for better and more efficient products IMHO. Just what happened to the smog legal gasoline stuff and the way they advanced to what they have become today.

 

I remember seeing a report on Fox News that showed a iPhone or Android, can't remember, that even when in airplane mode, it still tracked every move. I really don't worry about it to be honest. With what I posted on Instagram and Facebook back when I had accounts, I don't now, I'm sure I'm on a gov't watchlist for my conservative views. It is what it is. I believe that the way Goggle operates, they know everything that you look at and where you go no matter what. Just a fact of life. You want to be clear of tracking? Get rid of your cell phone...bottom line IMHO.

As for deleting, good for you. But it's not the future and not what is going to move this industry forward while Big Brother watches. That's just a cold hard fact. People will still do it and will still drive deleted trucks. But I think it will reach a point where it won't matter or be necessary in the future.

 

It's kind of cool seeing a State doing the right thing.

https://www.semasan.com/legislative-...ssions-testing

 

I came on here to ask a question that's been answered in this thread. I was finding it hard to get the stuff to delete my truck, especially the tuner, and was wondering if the govt was cracking down. I guess so. Anyway. My DEF system is throwing codes and I'm not paying the $800 I believe it will cost to make the CEL go away. It is time to start deleting. I just stumbled across the place in the screenshot that appears to sell everything I need to start the process. All I'm looking for is confirmation that this will get the job done, it is all that I need, and if anyone has any experience with these parts or this company, or a better suggestion. Thank you very much.

Ken

 

This icon is incredibly inventive for the purpose promoted:

Ingenious icon.

However, the State of North Carolina, home of the tobacco industry, isn't really known for caring much too much about lungs.