Great Smoke Stories!

[Sticks]

Originally posted by TurboSandman

Here in St. Louis, we have roadside emission spot checks, usually at onramps where you can't see them until you are already past turning off. They scan your license plate and sniff your tailpipe as you drive past and then mail your emissions certificate with a bill (assuming you passed) a few days later. Otherwise, you have to go to a stationary test facility for a formal test. Anyway, diesels are exempt from emissions inspection, at least for now.



Problem is, I've driven through these inspection "traps" on several occasions and have had the overwhelming urge to "do what a diesel's gotta do" and let them have it right in the sniffer. :--)



OK, I know that no good would come of it and I won't do it, but I just wonder what the test would show. Pray for me brothers, lest I fall to temptation.

We have at least one of those in Denver. Just a snorkel on an off ramp and a sign that tells you how your emissions are. Good, fair, and poor, with a little picture of a car that either smiles at you, flat line, or frowns. I will make a special trip this week to see what happens.

 

[WadePatton]

been a while

But I've sooted a few over the last few months. It'll be easier when I get the SBC in.



Notables:



Chick (DC) in something with a sunroof (open) was driving like she was the only person that mattered. Needless to say, she just couldn't get by me on the right side. Then she falls in behind me at my exit. WHOOPS. This time I let her slip up on the right as I loader the CTD up. Flavored up her Marlboro.



LOST my first race ever. Had a BMW on my rear in a State Park no passing zone. I sped up, but not fast enough. I left it on 3x5 and he jumped out to pass I hammered it, but couldn't keep up. "745" BMW that means two things. First, it's made in Germany-Second, that's 4. 5 liters of V8 under the hood. I'd been a better race in 5x5 and I'd take him with injectors. Imagine the look



Anyway if you're messing with BMW's remember that they come with 4 (older ones), 6, 8, and 12 cylinders. They'll all take a smoking, just harder to stay in front of some.

 

[catoiler]

Well I was a bad boy the other night. On the way home from work

some fool in a hyundai turned in front of me so i hit the brakes and change lanes. signal turns red and the poor guy is stuck next to the soot tube!Light turns down goes the soot pedel, poor guy had his window down and a big cloud just happens to find it's way in!! best part was my kids friend was coming out of a gas station up ahead and saw it and and got me on the two way and was laughing his *ss off and said "I new that was you". I Don't think he will do that again to soon.

 

[milehigh.o.]

I have tested the one in Denver and it works. I have driven thru this thing many times and always passed it, but I figured lets see what happens when I lay into the pedal. I failed.



Sticks,



Hopefully this will save you a drive, if you are always down by the Speer exit give it a shot and let us know your test results.

 

[MD500E]

Well, i didn't exactly smoke another car, but here goes. I stopped in a lawn mower shop the other day for some new blades. My friends told me not to go there but i was driving by anyway. I parked my truck in the far corner of the parking lot and left it idling while i went in. after waiting 15 min for some one to help me when the owner shouts, "is that your truck runnin" i said it was, and he yells "well shut it off!!" I then ask why and he gets real irritated and yells again "Because she cant *#$&*@ breathe" pointing to some woman in the back. Well i walk outside to put an end to the problem! ! I also notice that none of the windows on the side of the building are even open and my truck is sitting almost 75-80 feet away!. Now i am mad!! I back my truck out on to the road, right in front of the open double doors and start the smoke show!! Once the smoke begins to black out his whole building, I add in some white tire smoke for the finishing touch. I only wish i had a tail pipe so i could of injected the smoke into his building!!



PS: My friends even offered to cloud him out when ever the go by. Wow what great friends. I normally don't do stuff like this, but boy did that guy rub me the wrong way!

 

[C. Harlan]

I have smoked so many since my last good post, but I recall one good one

I was on my way home from work, about 3:50 in the afternoon, doing about 75-80 like usual, when I notice a Ford doing all it can to catch up with me, and I guess play... . as he kept riding my bumper and getting smoked, he was trying all he could to get in front of me, but with all the cars changing lanes, and me romping on the smoke pedal, it was not going to happen! we finally get to a red light, on the highway, and he looks over at me with his bone stock motor, goosing the throttle as if to say "LETS GET IT ON!!!" I just looked at him and gave a half smirk while I waited for the go light... . when it turned green, I already had my HX40 spooled up to about 4 psi, in 2nd gear, eased off the clutch, got the @ss end sideways, and let him get a little ahead so he think he had a chance..... when I hit 4th, IT WAS ON!!! I buried the pedal, and rowed through 5th and 6th, and just heard the loud cackling of the motor reflect of his truck as I blew by him. . I got about ¼ mile ahead of him, and backed out of it, only to see him take the soonest exit. I was wanting to do it some more, but I guess he couldnt take what he wanted to dish out!



-Chris-

 

[GHinton]

I saw a light puff of brown smoke from my 03 yesterday..... Sux to a clean burner. Sometimes, I miss the 97 12 valver... ...

 

[WadePatton]

DD to the RESCUE

Originally posted by GHinton

I saw a light puff of brown smoke from my 03 yesterday..... Sux to a clean burner. Sometimes, I miss the 97 12 valver... ...

call Keith, it's only money!

 

[Sticks]

Originally posted by milehigh. o.

I have tested the one in Denver and it works. I have driven thru this thing many times and always passed it, but I figured lets see what happens when I lay into the pedal. I failed.



Sticks,



Hopefully this will save you a drive, if you are always down by the Speer exit give it a shot and let us know your test results.

That was the one I was refferring to. I don't take my land barge downtown too much, but the exit is only about 2 miles from my house. I can't make killer clouds yet, but I can lay a respectable stringer along behind me. If I can get someone to ride with me to take a picture of the results billboard I'll get a PIC posted.

 

[wsmalley]

I had some fun with some rice the other night as well... .



First was an Acura CL 3. 2 all done up pretty. Do to having a laggy HX-40 and 2wd, I can't boost a lot, so he beat me on the launch. But as I have heard said: " Lag is just a friendly head-start. " So as soon as the boost came up I was able to ease( and mean ONLY ease by). He was a good sport about it and we pulled in a parking lot and shot the breeze for a while. Turns out he had a turbo as well, hence the trouble I had in passing him. It was a cool car.



The other ricer was not so cool about getting spanked. This guy had the extravagant, lowered, body kits, big shiny wheels, fart can, etc. I actually beat this guy off the line and he never saw my face till the next light, where he never even looked over

He was treated to a new paint job when that light turned greenOo.

 

[JHerrlich]

I was having fun with a little honda civic complete w/ fart pipe today. 'Till I blew a boot I still beat the snot out of him though. Didn't even go over 1250 degrees EGT.

 

[puffincoal]

so i'm sitting at red light minding my own business putting in a dip of copenhegen when i glance to my right and see a guy in a reg cab '02 powerjoke giving me the dog look he turns to his buddy and they both laugh and then he looks back at me and throws his auto shifter down into first and starts to "try" to power brake it. i did notice that he had the banks power pack logo there on the door but he must not have noticed that i was driving a cummins torque monster and not a duramax any ways the light turns green and its go time i pull him off the line, he catches up a little when i shift to 3rd, by the time i ran out 3rd i had him by a truck length so as i rolled her into 4th i couldnt resist the fun of easying into his lane (which just happen to be on the same side as the soot pipe) and lining it up perfectly centered to his truck and then proseeding to help he cange the color of his truck from a shiny white to a dull off white at the next light he pulled the typical just got smoked my a cummins and stopped back were i couldnt see him as he shaked with his tail between his legs, i guess he has never played with the truck shaking power of a cummins running though a 5" straight pipeOo. Oo.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Re: DD to the RESCUE

Originally posted by WadePatton

call Keith, it's only money!

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[ToolManTimTaylor]

Originally posted by JyRO

I don't consider those guys punks. I think they're rather smart. Less than 10 G's for something that will run 10's in the quarter mile @ 120+ mph is a lot of fun. This coming from a retired motorcycle roadracer (WERA #701).



- JyRO

Yeparoo!



TMTT



KAW 9R

Kaw 7R

AMA CCS # 605

 

[98rammer]

Re: I got a little punk in a Mitsu eclipse today!!!

Originally posted by charlan

I was on the way home from work, and I have the same rule of thumb as Mark (Got Smoke?), being that if I cannot see the front of your car, you are TOO close...

-Chris-

i totally agree. if your headlights have disappeared beneath my tailgate, you're too close



most people around here don't race much, but i did have a retarded looking civic *try* to pass me. don't get me wrong, there are nice looking imports, but this was like an '88 yellow civic with a fart pipe, big rims, and a white single windshield wiper. after giving some smoke and exhaust notes to a duramax that i passed at a stoplight, he finally decides to try to pass while i'm doing 45 in a 40. wot, smoke, smoke at wot, and up to 75mph. he almost came past until i hit the OD cancel button and shifted into fourth. ah, it felt good. he stayed on my butt until we got to downtown where he passed me and never looked over. Oo.



Tom

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Re: Re: I got a little punk in a Mitsu eclipse today!!!

Originally posted by 98rammer

but i did have a retarded looking civic

Ahh down here we have not only those but Dodge Omni's with APC wings the size of most flight decks , Accords (mid 90's) blinged out maximum , And wanabees galore.

 

[98rammer]

Re: Re: Re: I got a little punk in a Mitsu eclipse today!!!

Originally posted by ToolManTimTaylor

Ahh down here we have not only those but Dodge Omni's with APC wings the size of most flight decks , Accords (mid 90's) blinged out maximum , And wanabees galore.

:-laf i have seen some awefully ratty cars. one in particular up in Preque Isle, Maine (up about 5-6 hours from the NH border near the top of ME). it was and early 90's black cavalier with like 17's and a big wing. it had limo tint in the back windows. it also had a custom dual exhaust with 5" or 6" mufflers on both sides. i bet ya the exhaust cost more than the car don't get me wrong, i'm sure modding diesel trucks makes me a hick in some way (i don't care ), but there's just a rediculous line that people cross.



Tom

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Just got back from getting coffee and BS'n in the lot when a civic pulled up and the thing that got me the best was that he had a 3 guage pod only something didn't look right with it. he goes inside and I saunter over to my truck to grab my phone and I notice that the guages have no bezel rings ... odd ... So I act like I am on the phone and figured it out ... ... ..... THEY WERE PICTURES... ... ..... PICTURES Of guage faces taped neatly over the holes. My gawd people never stop to amaze me ... . EVER!

 

[WadePatton]

cool idea, I'm going to put a picture of a HX-50 under my hood tomorrow!:-laf :-laf :-laf Oo. Oo.

 

[Sticks]

Originally posted by WadePatton

cool idea, I'm going to put a picture of a HX-50 under my hood tomorrow!:-laf :-laf :-laf Oo. Oo.

Guarented 10 extra horse power. 20 if it's life size and in color.