no one tailgates the black momba - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

ngarover · #1 10-29-2015, 09:40 AM

One thing thats a given, if your doing 70 and drop down a gear and punch it, your going to have a huge cloud... one that basically makes the car behind you disappear... when smoke clears they are usually a great distance further back... and stay there.

FE240D · #2 10-29-2015, 10:20 AM

That is handy- kind of like the Diesel Mercedes version of "pepper spray"

babymog · #3 10-29-2015, 10:29 AM

Wow, just like the guys I see around town in their old diesel Dodges, stack through the box, ... an image that modern diesel manufacturers are trying hard to leave behind and one that I hear often about how ecologically insensitive I am for driving a diesel at all.

At a seminar last spring I sat with two people from EPA, who were there trying to figure out how to force the Trucking industry to abandon diesel fuel, ... stupid me trying to make a case for "clean diesel" vehicles that don't need to haul around 1,800lbs of CNG tanks and equipment.

Anybody can make more power from overfueling, making it without smoke takes Engineering.

leathermang · #4 10-29-2015, 10:51 AM

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....Anybody can make more power from overfueling, making it without smoke takes Engineering.

Not Actually.... as a diesel REQUIRES ' excess' oxygen to be available for fuel to produce power.... once all that available oxygen is used up all the fuel introduced in excess of that is wasted without producing more power.

86-300sdl · #5 10-29-2015, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ngarover

One thing thats a given, if your doing 70 and drop down a gear and punch it, your going to have a huge cloud... one that basically makes the car behind you disappear... when smoke clears they are usually a great distance further back... and stay there.

Bond...James Bond lol Just need a little oil mixed in for good measure.

mannys9130 · #6 10-29-2015, 07:35 PM

I usually have really good luck and road hazards ALWAYS seem to appear in front of my car when I'm being tailgated.

Of COURSE I need to utilize extreme threshold braking to prevent from hitting an object (real or perceived) in front of me. What would come of it if I did not attempt maximum braking to avoid a road hazard? My brake lights are all functional, my headlights are functional, and I obey the speed limit. The person behind me needs to be ready for me to encounter these obstacles suddenly. If they aren't, well...

treetops · #7 10-29-2015, 08:53 PM

This is a helpful way to navigate on-ramp merges too...the cloud tends to make every one else wonder WTH is going on with that car and back off.

Mölyapina · #8 10-29-2015, 09:04 PM

Another way to keep people from tailgating you is by strapping a bunch of 12-foot 12x2s to the roof of a 13-foot-long Corolla.

Orv · #9 10-29-2015, 09:04 PM

Mine doesn't smoke like that unless it's been doing a *lot* of low-speed around-town running and has carbon built up in the exhaust. I tune for at most a light haze in the rear view mirror at WOT. Fuel's too expensive to waste it making smoke, is my thinking. Plus enough soot's going into the engine oil as it is, no need to add more.

m1tch · #10 10-30-2015, 04:24 AM

Might be interesting to hook up a vac line switch to the ALDA - smoke on/smoke off

vince77 · #11 10-30-2015, 11:07 AM

The cloud isn't intentional... that's just what happens when you reach the downshift switch. I'm just trying my best to pick up the pace. You think they'd be grateful.

Orv · #12 10-31-2015, 10:04 PM

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Might be interesting to hook up a vac line switch to the ALDA - smoke on/smoke off

The pump on mine is so worn out that having an ALDA doesn't matter much anymore. When I first took it off it smoked, but once I increased the max boost from 8 psi to 12 psi that went away. (Factory spec is up to 14 psi, I think, but by 12 psi it was no longer smoking so I figured there wasn't much point in going further.)

Steve_in_NV · #13 10-31-2015, 10:16 PM

I stopped at a four way and then took my turn, the car that followed me got on my a$$ I then gave it more throttle and when it shifted a giant cloud of black smoke appeared, it's never done that before, wait for it........the car that ran up on me was a prius, he swerved to the right to miss the cloud and then stayed back....way back. Priceless. All diesels gave my old merc a virtual high five. And then I bought her a tank of fuel.

Junkman · #14 10-31-2015, 10:45 PM

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Might be interesting to hook up a vac line switch to the ALDA - smoke on/smoke off

That would be the Edge Juice on my old Dodge. Wife thinks the truck is Redneck. Who cares?

Adriel · #15 11-01-2015, 04:17 AM

With the oxidizer, can't make huge amount of smoke. Had the thought could put in a oil tank and nozzle down stream of it and have the pump on a switch on the dash.

However, the center mirror was coming down so removed before broke, and found it a much better solution.

Now only if I check the side mirrors am I aware instead of before it was right in my field of view.

Since mirrors are kicked a good bit out, don't think the high beams also affect me as much, but have not had that in a really long time, now that I think about it (driving safe does upset some people but not going to risk myself for their convenience).