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I would love to have windows that worked like the smart windows in Blade Runner:

“Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film”

So, in other words...the crew faces total doom and despair, but saves the Earth in the end. Sounds like routine for the crew of the Enterprise.

Bring back the Karmann Ghia!

Good point. I use Your Master gear myself, in the full suit on a warm day, it gets sweaty to say the least.

Leather riding overhangs are *much* worse than the textile ones, especially in the summer in Alabama. Woof!

True statement and fair enough, the soot buildup I was thinking of was more on the VGT, once those get a buildup of carbon deposits, the turbo eventually fails.

Fair enough, the Cummins engines that seem to be the most fuel-efficient are the 2wd models, less power loss through the drivetrain. With the 6.0L, I’ve known people that had 2wd variants of the same truck I drive, and they were lucky to get maybe 2 mpg more than what I get.

Certainly does! Diesels have come a long way in the past 30 years, too, thanks to the mighty microprocessor.

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…