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New shop furnace installed and almost finished, not totally automated just yet but close. I still need to manually turn off one step Positive displacement oil pump, fully adjustable and serviceable, full automatic control with programmable everything including pre-heat and all delays. All OTS parts to ensure infinite operation span. Currently getting about 80k BTU at .5-.75 gallons of used oil per hour, exhaust is extremely clean and the new draft control works perfectly. Compressor air feed is damped etc M5 and one of my cars (preemptively replaced entire belt drive) to keep it car relevant lol!
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this piece of junk was in front of me the other morning. i don't know if he could control the black smoke coming out of the smoke stacks but thankfully i turned on recirc before it started figuring he was ready to coal roll me.
this piece of junk was in front of me the other morning. i don't know if he could control the black smoke coming out of the smoke stacks but thankfully i turned on recirc before it started figuring he was ready to coal roll me.
Bit if you’re ever in Texas/Louisiana get a little closer, look up, and say howdy 🤠. Promise not to roll coal. It just “vapes” a little bit 🤥 Glad to see you in the appropriate lane…which is where I see majority EVs🙃
this piece of junk was in front of me the other morning. i don't know if he could control the black smoke coming out of the smoke stacks but thankfully i turned on recirc before it started figuring he was ready to coal roll me.
So black smoke from a diesel is caused by unburned fuel(ie, their tune is dumping more fuel than they can burn with the air the turbo is pushing in). If that's a 24 valve with the electronically controlled fuel system, he might have a chip/tune that he can change how much smoke it puts out(a lot of diesel bros like more smoke, and judging by his stacks I assume he is one of them). If it's the older all mechanical 12 valve, the way he's configured the mechanical pump is causing this. Not really adjustable on the fly, but almost certainly intended when he modded it.
It's a waste of fuel and pretty childish. I thought it was cool in my teens, though I myself have never owned a diesel. Lost any interest in rolling coal by the time I was an adult.
However, older non-emissions controlled diesels will smoke a bit even stock. I'm not bothered by it because that was the technology of the time. Newer diesels have computer controlled injection and all kinds of tricks to eliminate smoke and clean up the emissions.
So black smoke from a diesel is caused by unburned fuel(ie, their tune is dumping more fuel than they can burn with the air the turbo is pushing in). If that's a 24 valve with the electronically controlled fuel system, he might have a chip/tune that he can change how much smoke it puts out(a lot of diesel bros like more smoke, and judging by his stacks I assume he is one of them). If it's the older all mechanical 12 valve, the way he's configured the mechanical pump is causing this. Not really adjustable on the fly, but almost certainly intended when he modded it.
It's a waste of fuel and pretty childish. I thought it was cool in my teens, though I myself have never owned a diesel. Lost any interest in rolling coal by the time I was an adult.
However, older non-emissions controlled diesels will smoke a bit even stock. I'm not bothered by it because that was the technology of the time. Newer diesels have computer controlled injection and all kinds of tricks to eliminate smoke and clean up the emissions.
You can still tweak the old ones to be smokeless, mine never smokes at all unless it's super cold and that's only on startup. Even that is a puff of black/white for only seconds
You can still tweak the old ones to be smokeless, mine never smokes at all unless it's super cold and that's only on startup. Even that is a puff of black/white for only seconds
Mine runs clean >99% of the time. It always puffs on a cold start, then immediately cleans up. Sudden WOT gives another puff which disappears as soon as the big turbo spools.
So I’m posting this from my car in bumper to bumper traffic. It did an OTA update a week or so ago for the Distronic. Now in traffic it requires no intervention whatsoever. I haven’t touched the steering wheel in over 15 minutes and have been replying to emails etc while the car drives itself completely. That’s a direct result of the update, pretty awesome. used to have to touch the wheel every 60 seconds or so.
that beats the old tape the soda can to the steering wheel 'hack' that people would do
mercedes annoys me like that there's so many deactivated features even in my car that just require software tweaks... my transmission has an "agility mode" that was only in use for certain european models, as well as additional features related to the SBC braking
that beats the old tape the soda can to the steering wheel 'hack' that people would do
mercedes annoys me like that there's so many deactivated features even in my car that just require software tweaks... my transmission has an "agility mode" that was only in use for certain european models, as well as additional features related to the SBC braking
At least it's as simple as coding stuff back on, not like Lexus where they are missing the hardware entirely vs JDM cars.
that beats the old tape the soda can to the steering wheel 'hack' that people would do
mercedes annoys me like that there's so many deactivated features even in my car that just require software tweaks... my transmission has an "agility mode" that was only in use for certain european models, as well as additional features related to the SBC braking
Yes, that can be unlocked with coding, like the intelligent lights and such. I just found out yesterday I could have sliding turn signals...
the one bit of "coding" i did (it's just pressing buttons to access hidden menus lol) was to make it so when COMAND is switched on it now displays the AMG logo instead of the standard mercedes logo
that and bringing up the live battery voltage in the cluster is about the extent of what can be done without an entire STAR or xentry system
