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Actually, the opposite, I’m a car guy and I’d be super interested in buying an older Diesel that is easy to defeat. You can tune it for better mileage, more pow
by oceanplexian 3y ago
Actually, the opposite, I’m a car guy and I’d be super interested in buying an older Diesel that is easy to defeat. You can tune it for better mileage, more power, and delete the need for DEF fluid.
I have no interest in rolling coal, but modern emissions systems are over-complicated, expensive and cause massive reliability issues so some bureaucrat can make some number look good on a spreadsheet.
- jeffbee 3y agoHaha yeah stick it to them kids. Fuck them and their lungs, amirite?
- linksnapzz 3y agoFor every person with a new diesel pickup that deletes the DPF & SCR equipment, there's about forty class 4-8 trucks thatr 30+ years old, in questionable tune, and polluting far more...legally.
- iancmceachern 3y agoTotally, and everytime one of those is replaced with a new one our air gets better. Related - there are a ton of old Detroit 2 cycle diesel motors on heavy trucks that are being phased out. Its getting harder to find mechanics to work on them. Super interesting motor if your interested in that kind of stuff, 2 cycle diesel, very reliable, highly polluting.
- linksnapzz 3y agoThe last Detroit 6-71 two-stroke six I saw was in fire apparatus; where I suppose power density and reliability are paramount relative to emissions.
- Palomides 3y agoroutine emissions evasion by people like you is going to get diesels banned entirely for personal vehicles (and good riddance)
- linksnapzz 3y agoHahaha. Bicycles will (justifiably) get banned from suburban streets before this happens.
- iancmceachern 3y agoIt's super easy to take off the emissions stuff in modern super duties, most folks do it after they hit 200k and they're no longer under Warranty. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair that stuff if its not covered, so its often a choice of totaling the truck or removing it. There are people that drive these engines to a million miles after taking off the stuff. Point is, maybe you don't have to go as old as you think. There are a lot if real nice things about more modern diesel engines that make day to day running and maintenance of them so so much easier. Just be aware you may be trading one gremlin for another.
- gunapologist99 3y agoDEF is actually really bad stuff. It thermally decomposes to form highly poisonous isocyanic acid, and that is almost always left at least partially unreacted in the output.