Typical of most of the lower-end models these days. I wish they’d spend a little more time giving more fit and finish to vehicle interiors, although GM isn’t the only guilty party these days.

Just not good for the engine in my humble opinion. Ego boosting from the boost, the excess power, and all that, certainly, but definitely not my cup of tea!

Well, makes a little more sense. I can’t understand something if I can’t see it from their perspective...not that I’d want to.

Well, sometimes that happens with a clutch (I did that with my ‘96 Eagle Talon and it had the N/A 2.0L under the hood), but sounds like he has sound mechanical knowledge and skill.

I was on powerstrokehelp.org a while back, there was an engine that had undergone what looked like complete and total destruction.

The thing that got me was seeing it happen with the VW diesels. I had the VW diesels pegged as being normally clean-burning.

The way I see it, more power is better economy, it means you need less throttle for the same amount of acceleration. I still don’t understand the need to dump that much fuel into the engine, but if it works (and you’re not doing it just to be a weenie) then more power to you - quite literally!

That explains it. Much better rate of consumption than the heavy trucks are using, although I wonder if the electronic controls are set to spray a heavier than necessary amount of DEF into the exhaust...

Now that is impressive, it sounds like he’s got a solid grasp on good engineering practices, and I’ve a hunch that truck makes that power reliably, and likely won’t lunch any components when he mashes down the “more fuel” pedal.

Also done with a microprocessor system that has different modes of tuning that allow you to adjust the amount of fuel dumped into the engine. The same way running lean all the time is bad could be said for running rich all the time. It makes sense when the extra oomph is needed, but doesn’t make sense when you’re…

Oh, very true. I think about them the same way I think about painted DeLoreans, or ridiculously expensive timepieces, and so on. Their money to waste, I just don’t understand it.

Very, very true, a setup that’s been in use for a very long time now. Still, when those motors demand power, you can hear those generator sets load up heavily to keep up with the demand in power.

So long as it’s built tough, it’s rugged, has beefy looks, and is capable of conquering rough terrain commonly found in Starbucks parking lots and in tarmac surrounding shopping malls, we’ll have room.

That was quite interesting, both in the reading, and in the tools involved. I’ll remember this the next time I have a stubborn bolt holding up my work.

Commodore reference FTW!

Neat! I hadn’t looked it up before, but that’s nifty. Everything I’ve seen about the Sonic shows they were at least trying to cater to the enthusiast.

Good point! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go shovel some more fuel into the furnace of my pickup truck...

Hey there, fellow sensible pickup driver! Good to know I’m not alone in doing sensible, logical things with my diesel truck.

Err, relatively clean-burning. My exhaust and the fender area around the exhaust pipe are still somewhat dirty, but that happens over an extended period of time. I still roll my eyes about the whole Dieselgate scandal, a newer VW diesel still runs cleaner than an older one from the late ‘70s/early ‘80s.

That’s damn impressive to hear. There was once a day when trucks were some of the sootiest vehicles on the road, science and technology seem to have changed all that though.