Simply an exhibition of ignorance.

 

Just little boys wasting fuel trying to be cool.

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You said it..... had kids get mad when I tell them politely I will not help them find a smoke tune and try to explain why then get hung up on....


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You did not find him cool, and extremely skilled at pushing a gas pedal. Not everyone can push a gas pedal down like that.

 

So in the mirror I see another gen 4 HD RAM, clearly lifted and up-tired, a ways back. Then I see his nose lift a bit and he pulls out into the middle lane and tears forward. He draws even with me, does whatever he has to do to belch a huge cloud of black smoke, and then pulls away like mad. It was a silver long bed crew cab 3500, maybe a 4-5" lift, nothing else particularly noteworthy except the enormous exhaust tip.

Is this a statement? A challenge? Disdain? Respect? Acknowledgement? Contempt? Was he just trying to tell me I needed to wash my truck?

Challenge- Maybe
Disdain- Yep, wants to see what your truck can do (smoke)
Respect- whats that??
Acknowledgement- Yep
Contempt- Prob believes EVERY diesel should be like his

This is basically a case of 'Little man syndrome" Because his truck is lifted with big tires, blows lots of black smoke and has a garbage can for a exhaust tip he believes that his truck is superior. Heck, the tip probably adds 100hp by itself
I'm sure most of us have had this happen, doesn't matter what brand your driving. I cant count the # of times I've had this happen through the years. They see another diesel truck and have to race past ya, not really sure why.:confused013: Even happens to me driving a gasser now days, Blow past me smoking like hell as I just meander down the road. Guess my trucks not worthy of being in front of theirs.

 

I've told this story before, but here goes again

I knew a guy one time, not a friend, just somebody that drank beer at the same place as I did.....

But he worked downtown and parked his Harley in the City Garage every day. Where the 'Power's-That-Be' park their cars.

Every afternoon he would start his bike to go home and rev it up, annoying the HE!! out of everybody in the Garage. People asked him to stop. I asked him to stop. He didn't care and he just kept doing it and enjoyed doing it because he was just a big child.

Shortly after, the Sheriff's Department started cracking down on loud pipes. Before that, before then, they had a 'live and let live' policy that, if you weren't bothering too many people or being a butthead, they'd leave you alone.

For five years, if you had aftermarket pipes, you were in danger of a ticket and being forced to put your totally junk stock pipes back on.

After the new Sheriff got in, he relaxed the policy quite a bit. To the point that it's back to normal now. All because of one butthead.

It only takes a couple buttheads to screw it up for everybody else.

The majority of people that Mod their equipment don't do it so they can annoy the rest of us. In fact, I might choose to Mod my truck someday.

I just hope that the Law doesn't crack down on us because of a handful of buttheads.

And that guy that passed you?

He qualifies

 

Sounds like he was compensating for his...ah-hem...shortcomings...

 

I haven't had it happen often but it is usually a Ford, trying to show their superior.
Had 2 young kids do this at 70 MPH on a freeway once, pas me slow down pas me slow down.
I looked and laughed at them, away they drove

 

I can fix a LOT of stuff but....

 

Still trying to figure out this new fad??? Why????

 

It get rid of that TIDE POD taste in your mouth.

 

it's not a new fad by any stretch. been going since i have been involved in the diesel scene. used to be worse.

 

It's not just a diesel thing, either.

If driving an obviously fast car, it's usually only a matter of time before some little rice burner with a huge exhaust tip wants to race, or accelerates by.

Now, there are some truly fast little rice burners, but you can tell that these are pure wannabes.
Okay, so they're loud and obnoxious, but at least they don't emit any smoke.

 

Welcome to the party Jimmy N!!:beer

 

Well, while I brought up those pesky rice burners, the urge to "race" seems to be alive and well with some diesel pickup owners, too.

I came up on two that were side by side on a fairly steep grade with a passing lane. They thankfully weren't smoking much (so there I go straying again) but I wanted to get by while it was possible. It'd be a ways before the next opportunity.

Eventually one pulled ahead enough that I could sneak through...only to have the guy try to catch me.

Yes, I can see being proud of a tuned diesel's performance, but c'mon. A 7,000 lb. pickup needs a lot of power to keep up with a 700 hp car on an uphill. Needless to say, he didn't have that much.

 

When I lived in town near the college, we had a neighbor kid who bought a Harley with straight pipes. No problem till he kept coming home at 2:30 AM after the bars closed and ALWAYS reved twice in the alley where he parked. Echoes woke a few of us. Politely asking him to stop went nowhere (drunks forget) Some one fixed his pipes with expanding foam. Never had a problem again.

 

I use to raise so much helll from 1973 - 1979 I would only be a hippacrite responding to this thread. Maybe there's a few that already have??? LOL no flame suit, don't give a shat anymore. LMAO