Smoked a roady bicyclist (jerk) after a lecture from him...

[Pre95]

This was in my old Ford F350, 7.3 IDI diesel w/ Banks sidewinder turbo kit (tons of stuff done, propane injection, shift kit etc).

Sitting at a light, a bicyclist rolls up beside me and is staring in my window like he has something he needs to tell me. I roll it down and he starts lecturing me on how bad my truck is for the environment, and how I should consider getting a newer vehicle that doesn't pollute so much. Then on to asking what kind of mileage and how the truck should be a gross polluter taken off the road etc etc etc... I kindly tell him thank you for your insight and roll up the window.

Light turns green, I gas her through the light (Running a straight pipe, angled out behind the passenger door) and leave him in a black cloud so thick, when he came through the other side I noticed he had his face stuffed in to his shirt to avoid breathing the lovely fumes...

Me: 1, Yuppie roady: 0

[katakura silk]

Amazing!

[jtanguay]

owned.

[svenson]

so you had to PROVE you were a gross pulluter? nice. 

[catlin_cava]

The woman even laughted at that one lol, that is classic

[burn_your_money]

Had he not suggested you buy a new vehicle he probably would have been right. Haha I think I would have done the same thing

[superbro]

Yess... awesome

[Pre95]

I miss the ol' girl... off and on the gas pedal would let me send smoke signals... Ahh well, I am on the hunt for a new diesel for the stable 

[airhead]

Scrapping your old car and building you a new one would pollute far more than the one you have now ever could. At least I know thats true of the "average" car. I dont know about a 7.3l beast, but I'd say it still holds true.

Jesus, though, 7.3l? The smaller buses in Dublin city are only using 6l cummins engines. Is something like that actually fast on the take-off or is it just about pulling power? Im just curious cause Ive never driven anything that powerful.

[jtanguay]

Scrapping your old car and building you a new one would pollute far more than the one you have now ever could. At least I know thats true of the "average" car. I dont know about a 7.3l beast, but I'd say it still holds true.

Jesus, though, 7.3l? The smaller buses in Dublin city are only using 6l cummins engines. Is something like that actually fast on the take-off or is it just about pulling power? Im just curious cause Ive never driven anything that powerful.

they can move.  my brother had one in a cube truck and he raced some ricer, and destroyed him.  there wasn't much smoke either.  but its more of a pulling engine.  i think the 7.3 powerstroke has about 400 hp or more and gobs of torque.  completely ridiculous, but used less fuel than a V-10 triton engine.  i love diesel! 

i can't wait for some new 2 stroke diesels.  those things will walk all over silly gassers    i hope they decide to put them into cars.  a 1.6L two stroke diesel would be the equivalent to a 2.4L diesel or so.

[catlin_cava]

The V10 tritan would out pulling the cummins on flat stretchs but It would loose going up hill, both towing 37 foot 5th wheels on A twin highway

[Pre95]

Scrapping your old car and building you a new one would pollute far more than the one you have now ever could. At least I know thats true of the "average" car. I dont know about a 7.3l beast, but I'd say it still holds true.

Jesus, though, 7.3l? The smaller buses in Dublin city are only using 6l cummins engines. Is something like that actually fast on the take-off or is it just about pulling power? Im just curious cause Ive never driven anything that powerful.

they can move.  my brother had one in a cube truck and he raced some ricer, and destroyed him.  there wasn't much smoke either.  but its more of a pulling engine.  i think the 7.3 powerstroke has about 400 hp or more and gobs of torque.  completely ridiculous, but used less fuel than a V-10 triton engine.  i love diesel! 

i can't wait for some new 2 stroke diesels.  those things will walk all over silly gassers    i hope they decide to put them into cars.  a 1.6L two stroke diesel would be the equivalent to a 2.4L diesel or so.

Ohh yea, the thing felt like a freight train (whole lotta truck hauling a lot of butt!). It'd light the duallys across intersections if I felt like wasting tires.. Last step for the truck was propane injection but I sold her to a guy looking for a tow rig (go figure) so she's back to being a work horse instead of being a toy.

Speaking of toys, picked up a 1.6 diesel rabbit today... Im stoked

[Smokey Eddy]

I totally second the whole "buy a new car and leave yours at a junk yard to save the enviroment" is total BS.
Some people are just genuinely moronic and, i know it's hard but, you have to face the truth sometimes.

[OM617]

I would have just told the biker how stupid he was for paying a few grand for 10lbs worth of aluminum.

[Rabbit TD]

I would have just told the biker how stupid he was for paying a few grand for 10lbs worth of aluminum.

Yeah those guys get me too for what they spend on a damn bicycle.  You can go to Wal-Mart and spend a hundred or less dollars and get one with about a million gears, full suspension and everything.  Then the first thing they do is change the seat {which is already too small to begin with} to one of them things that cost a couple hundred dollars that's about like sitting on the edge of a razor blade but it's about an ounce and a half less than the other one and think they got a bargain.  Then get a set of handlebars that about drag your knuckles on the ground, put on one of those little helmets that looks like something out of Jurasic Park and some spandex pants that look like they're about 4 sizes too small and think boy am I ever cutting down on wind resistance here and I'm doing almost 12 mph.  
My bicycle when I was a kid looked more like a scaled down Harley full Dresser with all the extra crap I had bolted on it including the vacumcleaner extension pipes from my Mothers vacum cleaner.