Great Smoke Stories!

[JyRO]

I was rolling through some smaller town in TX (Buffalo or Palestine I'm guessing), south of I-20 this Saturday (9/18) ... trying to make my way back to I-20. Anywho, there was like 4 boys on the side of the road waving 'Car Wash' signs. They looked like they were anywhere from 12 to 14 years old. I was pulling my enclosed trailer with 2 tractors in it.



I'm just easing along in 5th at about 35 mph maybe, and yes my truck's front end was covered with love bugs and everything else. It wasn't filthy, but noticeably not too clean.



Well, one of the 'smarter' boys takes a step forward out to the road, giving me, 'the look' saying, 'man your truck is dirty, you NEED to pull in here. ' Now don't get me wrong, this boy certainly had a point. But I could tell they were all happy-go-lucky and this one particular boy was having just a bit of fun at my expense, I didn't mind at all. But I too was happy, and didn't have time to stop, and wanted to have just a bit of fun with 'em.



So just before I got up to 'em, I whomped down on the fun pedal. I mean I timed it perfect. The 'smarter' boy turned tail and ran about 5 good steps back when the cloud engulfed him. The other boys were whooping it up laughing at him, while enjoying a brief smoke cloud. I was at speed, so it got to em real quick, but left 'em quick too. The one boy that took off running for those few steps, took off so quickly, you would've thought he had heard a gun shot.



I chuckled for about 10 minutes knowing they thought it was as funny as I did. My truck doesn't smoke heavily at all (with just 275's and an EZ), and normally I save my best efforts for those who deserve it. But I made an exception just for fun ... and that's the way it came across with these boys and I was glad. Those were some good spirited boys.



Funny how some others always run into the punks of the world. I usually always run into nicer folks, and generally never have anyone ride my arse. But at the same time, if someone is trying to pass me, I play my own game and let them do as they will. I don't care to keep them back. I worry that those who are wanting to pass and would otherwise ride my arse because I kept them back, are the types of people who would rear end me, so I'd just soon they'd go on. Anyway, I had fun with the smoke. So did those boys.



- JyRO

 

[Sled Puller]

. I would argue that stacks mounted on the inside of the bed is no more a danger than a 5" tailpipe out the side.

That is EXACTLY what I was planning on telling the Judge, if it came to that.

 

[Sojourner]

I would argue that stacks mounted on the inside of the bed is no more a danger than a 5" tailpipe out the side.

Any moron who sticks their hand inside the bed of your truck deserves to get burned anyway.

 

[bmoeller]

Got that right!

 

[C. Harlan]

Got an old Porsche 911 TURBO this morning!

I was on the way to one of the centers where I used to work out of, to see a good friend off, and wish him well in his retirement years. As I am just cruising along, I notice a little car very close to my tailgate. Bad idea, dude. I send out a few smoke clouds as a warning, which do absolutely nothing. So, I change lanes, get wide open space, and whaddya know?? Here comes little porsche boy trying to come around my passenger side! So, I literally stand up on the go pedal, and away we go, but I am actually pulling a little on this guy... I think it kind of freaked him out, because after that, he backed off... Way off, and never tried to get on my tailgate again. . I am sure his ears are ringing, as he was on the exhaust exit side, and it is quite loud, and he just so happened to have his windows down. . Oh well, had to post something to bring this back up to the front!



-Chris-

 

[RabidRam]

You scared me there for a minute. I thought you were going to say that you blew a Porsche 911 Turbo off the road. I was gonna call BS, but then I finished reading your story. SA-WEET! More power to ya, Chris!



Dave

 

[snowracer69]

I got beat yesterday

So as I'm pulling off one highway onto another (turning to my right), there is a yield sign... so I check to the left and see cars coming fairly close, but not really, I can beat them. As I turn the corner I realize I'm still in third gear, and I'd better get it lit and get on it... so the soot pedal goes to the floor and she begins her smoking. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, she downshifted to 1st and I was off! 2nd gear came and went and I held third hard to the floor... when I figured I had them well beat, I checked my mirror to merge and what is there?!?!?! A friggin' CADDY!!!! Right in my blindspot on my left side, just cruisin' next to me... so I hold out longer and think "I can beat him!" Shift into 4th, and I'm still not pulling on him! I'm thinking "WTF? I should be smoking this guy!" I glance at my EGT's and it's solid at 1200*F. What? 1200*F? I should be way past 1700*F by now! After holding it to the floor for this long! That was when I glanced down and checked my Comp... no lights! Oh, that's right, you just blew a fuse about 2 miles back and all the panel was INOP, and your Comp runs off the same fuse! $hitty. So, at probably around 95 mph I backed out of it and let Mr. Caddy go by me, with a smile and a wave (he wasn't happy though).



Guess the M3's just aren't enough to smoke a Northstar V8... I was embarresed to be beat, but glad to know that had I only had my extra 125 rwhp, it wouldn't have been a problem.



Josh

 

[C. Harlan]

Got a little snot nosed kid the other day.

I was driving in a small town, and some kid acted like he was going to jump right out in front of me... haha, jokes on you dude! Without a second thought, I just stepped on the soot maker, an engulfed him in a cloud. All I could see when I looked back was his buddies laughing at him, and he was trying to run from the cloud, but as you know, the cloud spreads... kind of hard to avoid that one.



-Chris-

 

[bmoeller]

I use the smoke as a tailgater eliminator. Last one was so close, I couldn't even see the hood at all. It was a nice new black car too. Totally engulfed it. After that, the driver didn't get within a quarter mile.

 

[AfterBurner]

There is an annual bicycle rally in Spring everyear back home. These guys love to ride 4-5 wide down the middle of the lane at 20 mph. Apparently they don't realize that the majority of the 90,000 pound bull wagons that go through there can't stop on a dime. Well, anyways i caught up to a group of these guys about 3 miles out of town. Sure enough i come rolling up running 75, two of the guys look back at me, then keep on riding down the center of the road! Yes, the majority of them do move but these didn't. I'd slowed down to about 35 to pass them and ooopppss, i left it in 5th. the thought of shifting must have just skipped my mind . Needless to say at 35 in fifth and 5200 ft elevation, that bombed cummins put out just a little smoke. :-laf :-laf :-laf

to make a funny story short, i couldn't see them for a while, then once the smoke cleared they were looking like fish out of water waving thier hands all around trying to clear the air infront of their faces. :-laf :-laf :-laf

Forrest

 

[Mad Bomber]

smoke

I'd slowed down to about 35 to pass them and ooopppss, i left it in 5th. the thought of shifting must have just skipped my mind . Needless to say at 35 in fifth and 5200 ft elevation, that bombed cummins put out just a little smoke. :-laf :-laf :-laf

to make a funny story short, i couldn't see them for a while, then once the smoke cleared they were looking like fish out of water waving thier hands all around trying to clear the air infront of their faces. :-laf :-laf :-laf

Forrest

:-laf Maybe you should have shifted to 6th

 

[AfterBurner]

:-laf Maybe you should have shifted to 6th

If only I had a 6th...

5spd

 

[bmoeller]

:-laf Maybe you should have shifted to 6th

:-laf :-laf Got'em good.

 

[Wasilla Rod]

I am MR Polite and will shut off my rattler if I am at a stop light and am gassing some one beside me ---however there was a funny that happend years ago at our garbage dump. The two guys that ran the city of Palmer garbage truck were always pulling pranks on the guy that worked the dump and vice versa. The dump had an old clapped out Ford dump truck with an old Cummins 325 or 350 that blew enough black one would suspect the turbo didn't go round anymore. The stack ran up the cab on the pasenger side and had been bent some how so as to blow slightly down. The garbage truck guys were backed up to the garbge in the process of dumping a load with the bed in the air and windows down watching in the mirrors. The dump operator comes roaring up in the beater Ford, screeches to a stop with the stack almost in the window of the garbage truck and hammers the smoke peddle. I was watching from a short distance so as to get the benefit of the whole process and to this day I still get tears when I remember those 2 guys dissapearing in the black cloud trapped in the cab of that truck. He got them so good -- it was perfect. I am sure there was a get even play sometime shortly thereafter.

 

[tURBOdIEZEl]

nice!!!

 

[nfox]

Smoke Stories!!

I would have liked to seen that!!!! Oo.

 

[JaMan]

Yesterday, I was heading to Austin and while I was at a side street stop sign a black and tan Ford blew by blowing some smoke on everyone he passed so I headed that direction. At the next town I caught up about 10 cars back of him at a stop light, I made my way thru the pack and was behind him trying to get to the tailpipe lane and this pe**r brake checks me so slow down. As the inside lane opens up more I go to move over and he brake checked me again, but I got over this time. I pull up beside him and he is flipping me off and acting like he wants to fight :-laf , so I motion for him to calm down and motioned to see what he has on the open highway ahead, he says something and takes off so I spank him in no time and I back off to beside him now he's quiet . He tries again and same result so I just let him go on by in a hurry and I think he tried to smoke me. :-laf Later I pass him in traffic and he pulls behind me so I give him a flogging on 5x5 that no p-stroke owner will ever understand :--) and just for good measure I hit him again and rolled off into the sunset...



Jared

 

[tURBOdIEZEl]

awesome... . great job!

 

[Double J]

This happened about a month ago, I just never posted. I usually keep the smoke to a minimum to not offend anyone.



As usual, I’m running late for work. When I leave my subdivision I have about a 1. 5 mile stretch of two-lane road that eventually merges into one lane to exit onto the freeway. Immediately after getting on the 1. 5 mile stretch before the freeway, I can see traffic is already backed up, but only in the fast lane (the lane that is eventually merged into 1. 5 miles up the road. ) So, I opt for the slow lane to get further up ahead before merging into the madness. It’s easy to muscle your way in when you’re driving a Dodge CTD :-laf. I had 5 or 6 cars in front of me doing the same when all of a sudden a semi from the fast lane traffic jam whips into the slow lane and begins to block people from passing and preventing any progress in the slow lane. So here’s what I’m looking at, bumper to bumper in the fast lane and a semi hogging up the slow lane and just creeping with the traffic in the jammed up fast lane. The car directly behind the semi swerved over into the emergency lane and passed him, the next car wasn’t so lucky. This ***** clown begins to swerve back and forth into the emergency lane so no one else can go around him. Did I mention I was late for work! At this point I’m fuming #@$%! , who made this guy ‘Johnny Law’ to not let any one pass, no one is breaking any law by advancing in the slow lane?



Well, he did this until it was time to merge onto the freeway and it ended up costing me 15 minutes…boy am I fuming ... . PAYBACK TIME! When he gets onto the three-lane freeway he’s able to get all the way over into the fast lane but it took me 3–4 miles for me to catch up because of all the traffic on the freeway. Boy, all of a sudden this guy is in a hurry doing 75 in a 65…. . NOT :-laf ! I finally get in front of him, engage the L/U switch, put the box on KILL and begin to slow down to 50mph and scoot over to the left a little so he gets it all. He’s obviously p/o because he starts to ride my ***** and that’s when I ride the brake and drop the hammer and his light disappear. After he backs off I continue on at 50mph and he comes back for round two, only this time with his brights flashing (it’s dark out by the way)…. . EAT this and the hammer is dropped and his lights disappear again. This continues on for a couple miles before he finally gave me some space and probably realized he got what he deserved. Like I said before, I normally keep the smoke to a minimum but this guy really struck a nerve.



Next time he thinks about pulling a stunt like that maybe he’ll think twice about it.

 

[silverram03]

80,000 Lbs. Vs. 7,500 Lbs. Sort of a David And Goliath battle don't you think?

My money is on the Goliath. Just a little food for thought, you just never know what might make someone snap at a moments notice.