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Originally Posted by john70t View Post
I think 'rollin coal' involves injection of diesel into the hot exhaust manifold to create needless smoke and much pollution.
"Hey look at me!"

Cool idea until it is actually put into action:

Weak sauce result.

On a gasoline engine, the throttle controls the air flow.
More air, more power.

On diesels, the air is unrestricted and the throttle controls the fuel.
More fuel, more power.
On a high performance diesel engine they pour as much fuel as possible and that often overcomes the amount of air available from the turbo, and the result is a bunch of black smoke usually indicating they went too big on the injectors and need to either back them down, or go bigger on the turbos.

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Old 03-11-2019, 07:05 AM
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