biggy238 said:
Then maybe Figure heads such as yourself and Mr. Hogue shouldn't leave things to be read between the lines and taken out of context. I know and have known from the beginning when I first started following greg's build up what he was going for and understood fully what he was trying to achieve. That doesn't mean I can't make a sarcastic remark at the authors expence.
The two things I have trouble with in the article are the fact that he portayed the diesel owning masses as being ignorant to internal combustion basics, and that he left out the fact that these engine lend themselves well to hot rodding because they are inherently strong, and already have the provisions that gasonline engines often need to have added to them to withstand the power levels. . Greg only round-aboutly touched on the latter. Shove in more air, and more fuel, more efficiently, and the efficiency gain will be seen at the wheels. To me, it's not so much that I don't understand the benefeit of machine work on an engine, so much as it isn't something that has to be done, where in most cases anything over 300hp in a gasoline engine will require such.
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biggy238:
I thought your post summed things up pretty well! Good job!
No offense to Greg Hogue here, but I agree with you that " he portarys the diesel owning masses as being ignorant to internal combustion basics,"... .....
IMO,... your point about Greg's comment on the "sledpuller mentality" is right on the mark too. He has regularly attacked builders such as Scheid Diesel here about the way they make H. P. , the black smoke issue etc. It is well documented. Now his new employer, Gale Banks Engineering, and himself are getting ready to field a tubular chassis 6. 6 Duramax Drag Pickup to compete against the likes of his old employer, "Dr. Performance's Tubular Chassis 5. 9 Cummins Engine Drag Truck" and trucks like Keating's to name a couple. Their "goal" is to run down that dragstrip without any black smoke! How do you do that??? Pour the coals to that engine with one heck of a shot of NOS!
Greg is also trying to do that with his "Project X" gray Dodge CTD CR Pickup that has been in the last couple of issues of "Diesel Power. " I don't know if you or any of the other members saw those articles, but at present they are falling a little short of the goal of "no smoke" as that truck is pouring "locomotive black" smoke out in several of the pictures in those
magazines! So,... ... I guess time will tell on whether they can actually field a
"smoke free diesel drag pickup!" Personally, I don't see it happening. IMO,... the argument of the Shell Audi R-10 Race Car is weak IMO because that race car was not putting out near the power some of these DHRA/NHDRA Pro-Street Drag Trucks are nor the top DHRA/PPA Sled Pulling Trucks.
As far as the "H. P. /Torque" isssue, gas v. s. diesel you guys probably know alot more about than I do about it. But it was always my understanding that "torque is what gets a load moving. " There has to be something to that when you see the "big boys" like Scheid, Watson, Haisley, Martin etc. hook up to a 50,000lb. sled at the pulling events and jerk that load from a dead stop all the way down the 300 ft. track. Just my observations... ... ... ... ... ...
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