Oil & Fuel New EPA regulations for small diesel engines

[Haywire]

Any aftermarket "performance chips" available or can you log on with a laptop with applicable software to tweak parameters?

Probably not enough market demand for someone to develop stuff like that.

Ian

 

[PoorMansCat]

He did invent the internet. :laughing:

Thats right!!! He DID invent the internet.... Then shortly afterwards, he invested millions of his own money into all the hair-brained ideas in energy conservation and global warming..
THEN, he started pushing all the necessary legislation to get his investments to making money for himself..
Guess he's really not an idiot after all! Didn't we put Martha Stewart in prison for something really similar? :confused2:

 

[sw03]

There are electronics on board the later systems that shut the engine down if its running outside what the EPA wants. That will includes on road vehicles being speed limited if someone does somthing tricky like putting water in the DEF tanks.

Give it a few months/years...The Jap speed bikes did the same deal when the "mighty GOV" limited the bikes to 185 or 187 MPH...Add in some electronics and BAM, 215 no problem...

 

[sw03]

For everyone,

Herein are new rules and regulations for small diesel engines and the EPA data on diesel engine emmmions.

Then again these are the same people that let their own government be exempt from these mandates for gov programs...Example, top secret programs, Area 51 etc are not held to these examples..

 

[Mounted Madness]

My wife and I spent last July traveling around UK and Ireland in a diesel Focus. Most of the veh's over there are diesel, yet, you seldom smell diesel fumes and rarely see black smoke. The emissions equipment is apparently different there then it is here in North America... but you gotta wonder, why the difference.

Downtown London, rush hour, lots of diesels, yet it doesn't stink.

And if you're curious, that Focus had lots of go and great fuel economy, and I drove it like the rental it was.

Things that make ya go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm !

 

[PoorMansCat]

Here's a good question... how easy will it be to remove 30 lbs of junk from the engine and get around all that stuff. Will it be as simple as straight piping a cat and plugging a few lines or will there be sensors connected to a computer emissions module that would have to be reprogrammed?

Ian

There are delete kits for the 6.7L Cummins, D.Max, 6.0L, and 6.4L Ford engines...
Each of the systems are different, requiring different programming, parts, plugs, and pieces.

 

[PoorMansCat]

I heard from someone that the Urea injection is quite expensive to recharge also. Anyone have experience with this?

It is an added cost that is much like buying fuel.... Too bad fuel cost are already so high...

 

[PoorMansCat]

I can't see how it's going to be that bad. We just got a 2011 F350 with the diesel--it has the DPF and the DEF and all the rest--also produces 800 lbft of torque and gets better fuel mileage than our pre-emission 07 Ram 2500 Cummins..

We have some of those trucks also... they get about 6 mpg, use tons of urea, both of these drive up operating costs. Ours are 2011 F550's with the 6.7l de-tuned to 300 hp.
There is no way in the real world that you will ever experience the 400 hp fueling. The 2011 Ford engine is so emissions concerned that the fueling window for 400 hp is so narrow, you will most likely never experience it unless you have it on a dyno in very controlled settings. Add into the emissions restrictions is the fact that Ford is completely terrified of applying torque to their new 6 speed transmission. About the only time you can get full fueling is after convertor lockup in 4th gear only. (pending emissions programming)
No doubt, it IS better than the 6L and 6.4L engines that it replaced. I feel Ford will make it work since its their own baby, and it definitely has a place in the light and medium truck market..
I still don't believe that buring twice the fuel to do the same work is environmentally friendly nor economically responsible.

 

[Ductape]

I still don't believe that buring twice the fuel to do the same work is environmentally friendly nor economically responsible.

But, the government does make twice as much tax money when you burn twice the fuel.

Wait a minute............. aren't they the ones who come up with the restrictions that cause fuel milage to be cut in half???

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....................................

 

[chopped]

good point ducktape