Great Smoke Stories!

[Jim Fulmer]

I just glanced at the smoke trail and it was good... road... gone but I needed to see the tires and what they looked like.



I did one of those 1st at 3K(30 mph) pickup 2nd and jam it runs today, it did just that and picked up 3rd quickly, glanced at the smoke trail as I felt the tires giving it up bad, looked down and it was at 3500 and 85 MPH moving out and spinning, then it hooked in 4th... ... . dog was on a hunt! Black marks were 2 telephone pole spacings long



Jim

 

[snowracer69]

So I'm on my way home from class this afternoon, and I had a bad day... it was just long and I had two tests and they drain me cause I put all my energy in them, and then I'm just done afterwards, so... .



Here I am, driving along, minding my own business and some middle-aged guy (45-55) is riding my a$$ in a mini-van!!! Well, I have a strict rule about headlights behind the tailgate before they get a smoke show, so I waited... I didn't waiver speed and pretty soon his lights are behind the gate. I let it slide for about 2 minutes expecting him to back off, but he didn't, sooooooo, box to 5x5 and a warning shot... nothing, still there. Well, drop her into 4th, check temps, engine is a little cool yet and oil pressure is still pretty high, so we won't give it full go. Instead he got a long, drawn out smoke show, and the best part was the wind was coming at an angle from my front-right, to where it whipped the smoke up against my pickup, and then over my canopy and the airflow pulled it down the back of the pickup to where it went right across his view out the windshield!!! By the time I let off he was over 200 yards back, and I do think he dropped down to about 5 MPH! Oo. Oo. Then I go to pull into my apt. complex, and he does too! , but he takes another turn and heads opposite way of my place. Thought I was in for an a$$-chewing, and was relegating my mind to returning one when he was done, and possibly demonstrating how well my 4" drop hitch would go through his plastic grill, but it never came to that.



Anywho, it's beer-thirty on a friday night, and it's halloween, and I'm in college... think it's time to get plowed!!!



Josh

 

[JoshPeters]

Well last week I was headding home after a long day at work, and working on my truck after. So it had been a nice 13 hour day. I pull up to one of the stop lights by my work, and I'm waiting for a car to go past. While I'm waiting some prick in a BMW comes screaming up to the light and almost rear ends me. So of course being O-so close to my tail pipe, and being a BMW that made it all the better. So of course at the next opening, I stood on it and the 370's and no boost responded nicely. A HUGE black cloud, nicely floating... ... . no where. No wind at all. A full 30 seconds later I still couldn't see the BMW! Well today I walk into work, and one of my Co-workers from the BMW side walks up to me and says "Dood, I'm STILL getting soot out of my vents!" I look at him kinda oddly, and he reminds me of the BMW that almost rear-ended me... . it was him! I couldn't stop laughing! He looked at me and says "Was that intentional?" I was laughing so hard I couldn't answer him. His only other comment was, "It was light, I heard a roar, then it was dark. " And walked away shaking his head "D*$M Kids!"



Josh

 

[MCummings]

Originally posted by JoshPeters

"It was light, I heard a roar, then it was dark. "

ROFL!!!!



That's hilarous.



I've gotten the same comment, just last weekend, at the Big Dawg Diesel Competition. .



Merrick Cummings Jr

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Again Jet Pilot on a high speed pass, compliments of the Snowman.



Jim





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[C. Harlan]

So that's what it looks like from the victim's point of view!!!!!! I need to smoke more people!!! haha, just kidding!

not really!



-Chris-

 

[benhall]

Finally

It only took me 2. 5 hrs to read 4 months worth of posts on this thread. We had a Case loader at Bagram, Afghanistan, that had the 8. 3L Cummins in it. Since for the longest time we only had JP8 for fuel, we had to add a quart or two of oil. Little did we know after we started getting a different supply source on base, that they started to put the oil in it before hand. The only exhaust color to come out was black, until the head gasket went.



I can't wait to get behind the wheel of my Ram in January. I have to try this smoking thing.



Ben

 

[C. Harlan]

I dusted a PSD today!!!!



I was just going about my way, going the speed limit on a 2 lane rural road, when this PSD comes out of nowhere, gets on my @ss, and moves over, as to say "hey, see me in your mirror?" No warning clouds here... jack@ss got all of 5th gear from 35 all the way to 70! he was a ways back, but soon came up for more... this time, I lugged down to about 50 in 6th gear, and put the soot generator to wide open position... this time, I took it up to about 90... After that, he would not even get a hundred feet from me!! oh well guess he thought his 'chipped' PSD could hang... you know what I have to say about that:



"You can't run with the big dogs when you p*ss like a poodle!"



The thought of the day!



-Chris-

 

[bmoeller]

Originally posted by charlan

"You can't run with the big dogs when you p*ss like a poodle!"

-Chris-

I like that one! :-laf



You need to move that phrase to the "Other" forum, and put in https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84076

 

[C. Harlan]

I got a moronic kid this afternoon on the way to work (Call duty, late shift)... I was rowing through gears, puffing a little smoke. . no big deal, more of a haze than anything. . I notice the little kid behind me is swerving around every little cloud. . I thought it was cute. . when the lanes opened up to 3, I got out of the left, and into the middle... all of a sudden out of nowhere, he gets up on my @ss... I have the rule if your headlights go under my tailgate, especially at 75 MPH, you are getting smoked. No warning clouds. So before I even do this, I look back, and the kid is flicking me off! NO!!!!! I lay into the soot pedal, walk away from him, and he gets on the side of me telling me I am double #1!!! cool! Tell me something I dont know! he took off, I followed, his car ran out of speed, mine almost, I came around him, slowed him down, and gave him a sooting again!! this time, he backed off, and swerved across 4 lanes to exit... guess the last laugh was on me!! like usual though. hahaha



-Chris-

 

[MCummings]

Little smoke story.



Was at the track Sunday night, and the tower sits about 45* to the North, and rear side of the track. Well, The wind was blowing in that "General Direction" and I got on the line and proceded to spool-up my turbo's, Well, I kept putting the fire out. Hehe,, I sat at the light trying to understand my truck, while having a learning curve maintaining 90*, and, well, I completely blanked out the tower.

I was wondering why the announcer stopped giving a play by play of who was about to run, and who just ran. It was because he could not see any direction out of the tower,, I was completely blacking out a 15'x10' building.



I'm working on the turbo's, and some really cool trick stuff to get these insane turbo's to spool in 15 seconds,, down to 2-3 seconds.



Merrick Cummings Jr



BTW, the reason I could not spool my turbo's that night was my "big" turbo had attempted to ingest some large foreign object, and was not "biting" the air like it should have, sao instead of "boosting" it was causing a restriction in the intake.

 

[JyRO]

I got somebody perdy good!

Coming from GA. to MI. this past Tuesday (1 week ago). My wife was in front of me in our other car, I was in old blue. We were in KY. on I-75 a little south of Lexington I think, in a construction zone. My wife was 3 or 4 car lengths ahead of me and cars all around us and we're running 60 mph in the construction zone (as is all other traffic around us).



This bone head who came by us, before the construction zone, who couldn't focus on keeping his speed constant that wound up behind us again go right up on my arse. Fellers, I had my tailgate off cause I had towed my 5'er down to GA. I could not see his headlights below my bumper, and if I had my tailgate on I prolly wouldn't have seen his roof, or very little of it. AND! We're in a construction zone with everbody running ~60 mph. There was no place to go and this guy was riding my arse like I was supposed to move out of his way.



Thanks to the education I've received on this topic, I hit the clutch let it go to idle. Eased the clutch back out (and eased to the left of my lane which instictively made him ease to the right so he could see around me, ), once the clutch fully engaged I fully mashed down on the throttle. Man! I laid a good cloud all over him! It was great, it works good at ~55 mph (since I hit the clutch), and lost all boost!



The guy waived his hands up like, 'WTF?' But then backed off. My message was properly understood. It was great. The cloud was so good, my wife who was in front of me cracked in over the radio to ask me why I just blew a big smoke cloud. I was happy, and this bone head unglued himself from my bumper. A smokin' done proper.



- JyRO

 

[RustyJC]

Lord, help me - I'm givin' in!

I'm afraid I may be slipping over to the dark side. I just have the DD2s and the EZ set on position #2 - an admittedly puny smoke rig! Normally, I don't drive the truck back and forth to work, but immediately after the DD2s went in a month or so ago came the South Bend Con OFE (another story ) that I now have to break in with 1000 miles of use before we can tow the 5th wheel.



At any rate, I have noticed that, coming away from an intersection, a short-shift to 3rd followed by moderate throttle will generate enough of a cloud to get the tailgaters to back off. Just wait - one of these days someone is really going to tick me off, and I'll lay the whole load on them!



Rusty

 

[Rebel_Horseman]

Yes I admit I've been having too much fun myself. It's fun to start off in 1st and get just enough to get going then lay into it in 2nd and 3rd. Whast really makes the show is making a turn in 3rd gear and mashing it coming out of the turn. This Diablo Puck can really make some smoke. It's not a lot though... yet.



Brian [><]

 

[Got Smoke?]

I miss my #10 :{



M300's, no rackstop, and a full slid OE plate make some respectable smoke though!!Oo. :-laf

 

[JCarrell]

Got me some curb squirrels today... These two little punks were walking down the middle of the road in a small town on my way to work... I had to come to a complete stop in order to avoid them. They finally decided to move went top my pass side. . I let her rip poof the kids were gone all i saw was both of them flipping me off. . SO i decided they needed a second shot went around the block got em again

 

[JCarrell]

Got me some curb squirrels today... These two little punks were walking down the middle of the road in a small town on my way to work... I had to come to a complete stop in order to avoid them. They finally decided to move went top my pass side. . I let her rip poof the kids were gone all i saw was both of them flipping me off. . SO i decided they needed a second shot went around the block got em again

 

[Got Smoke?]

Forgot to add this one yesterday.



I was on my way outta town yesterday doing 40-45mph in 4th gear. I had my Mopar tow mirrors flipped up from hauling hay this weekend, and something caught my eye in my driver's side mirror.



It was this unmistakeable red crotch rocket(get to that later) weaving in and out of traffic making a valid effort to catch me. Well he gets in the lane behind be about 150 yards or so back and hammers it... .....comes up to about 50 yards or so and reaches up and slams his plastic eye schield down(guess he saw me looking in the mirror :-laf ).



Well I figured if your gonna act like a dumb@$$ I might as well treat you like one!Oo.



5th Gear and pedal to the floorOo. Oo. Oo. Oo.



He got the message! :-laf



oh and the best part... ... . the reason the crotch rocket was unmistakeable was b/c it was my ex-best friend who thought my

ex-girlfriend was better than 4 years of friendship!#@$%! :-laf

 

[Kalaehina]

Right on Mark! Dumb@ss gettin what a dumb@ss deserves!

 

[C. Harlan]

I told you mark! That jack@ss got what was coming to him!!! Remember how I told you things work in funny ways, and to give it time?? Turns out I was actually right, eh???



My Story for the day...



I was coming back to the house from being in town today, and I noticed a good looking '03 ISB-E driving like an idiot trying to get up on the side of me to show me his 305 stock HP... . He gets on my back fender and punches it. Wow. I was impressed. Well, lanes open up, and he is wanting to race... Dumb@ss! I took his little offer, smoked the whole highway, looked back, and noticed him trying to catch up about a ¼ mile back... He caught up to me, looked at my truck, as if to size it up and down, and waved. . I guess he thought he was the new boss of the road, till I showed him the smoke was HP smoke, not old worn out truck smoke. That's ok, I am sure he will think twice next time!



-Chris-