I am going to post this in the V10 forum. I know a few of you here own or have owned PSD's.

The other day my gal and I are driving the wholesale club. The road is a 4 lane divided highway. I am driving in moderate to heavy traffic. The road has signals every 1/4 to 1/2 mile or so. Just cruising along and out of the blue charging in my rear view mirror is a 05' or 06' black xlt sport super duty. It gets super close to my bumper. He seems to want to challenge me. He drops bank and takes another charge. I pay him no mind. He gets a opportunity to change lanes and pull beside me at a stop light. On my fender below the F-250 badge reads "Banks Power". I glance over at his truck and notice it reads "Banks Power". Now I get it. He must have seen be drive by and wanted to race. A V10 vs PSD. I turned 30 years old back in December and I left all those game back then. I can tell he wanted me to look over at him.....not a chance. Working 7 days a week for months on end, I have no interest in playing games. So he gets feed up and floors it and races past me. Now this is my question, are PSD's supposed to belch black smoke all the way down the road? In my happy state that allows no fun with vehicles, a diesel that smokes for any reason is not going to pass any kind of emmission test. It is just crazy looking to have a $50k truck blowing black smoke all the way down the road. And the thing didn't look that fast. I bet my 2V V10 with the Banks Powerpack and SCMT could have given him a run.

So is the smoke normal for a chiped, tuned, or whatever diesel? And when I mean smoke....I mean smoke.....like clouds of it.

 

I've never had a diesel and don't know anyone with one but, when Stacey did up a Super Duty with a PowerStroke on Trucks! (Gale Banks own truck, he said) with a Banks system, of course he had to test it. It was amazing how much black smoke came out. I kind of remember seeing the same thing when he did some Bully Dog mods to a PowerStroke too.

 

I own a 99 PSD and its chiped and it will smoke like a chimney when you get on it. The chip adds allot of fuel to the engine that normally would not be dumped in there at lower-higher RPM's. With the low sulfur diesel on its way diesels will actually be better for the enviornment with and without the smoke. The greatest key with a diesel is 19mpg and a truck that can tow some heavy loads.

 

The smoke is normal... the driver is not.

 

chipped, Banks, ATS, Edge equipped prods always up the fuel delivery so lots of smoke is commonplace. Go to DHRA (diesel hot rod association) to see some serious smoke. In the old days of tractor pulls the stock farm tractors were so tweaked there is a solid black jet of smoke during a pull, so much that when they run indoors they have an elaborate system of vacuum tubes hooked to each exhaust of each tractor.

30 ? dude, I just turned the half century mark, I would have been manuvering to get this SpEd next to me at a light. Maybe I'd get beat, maybe not. But if he'd lost with all that expensive stuff to my stock bread box it would have been well worth the risk of getting shut down in a race.

 

Just wait until the diesels are monitored for emissions as closely as gas engines. These guys will have to come way down off that power to pass...

And to think, there's actually an article on this site that shows how to disconnect the EGR on the 6.0 (however, I understand it just doesn't run right with the EGR working, or some such other excuse).

 

The EGR has been a major defect on the babystrokes, it affects the varioturbo somehow then ya got no power.

 

Just wait a few years- there will be instructions on how to remove the "particle scrubber" from new diesel trucks.

 

way over fueled.i wonder if he knows how much a new motor costs out of pocket

 

Like I stated, upon state inspection time here in Massachusetts, all vehicles are run on a dyno to test the emmissions. Every vehicle has specific parameters in the testing equip. Some run for 3 minutes at a given RPM. Some have to be run at RPM in cycles to test. In the state inspection law pertaining to diesels, NO smoke is permitted EVER! And that actually test for exhaust gas temp. If too high...well.....fail it will be.

Today again I had another PSD pull beside me with Banks Power on the fender. I said.....HERE WE GO AGAIN. I had Blues Traveler cranked on the SUPER SOUND SYSTEM I have and saw the guy edging to get my attention. I looked over and he gave me the thumbs up. I looked at his truck and did the same. He had a 03' 04' F-350 PSD with it looked like a 3-4" lift. I was taking a left and he was going straight. It was nice to just appeciate each others rig and move on. Every one wants to race....at $2.60 per gallon for 93 octane.....racing is only when enough is enough and some needed to get schooled...

One thing though. That Banks exhaust sounds really good on the PSD. Very growly sounding.