Rollin' Coal: Time For Tea?
More smokey than bandit, and not an EPA emissions test in sight!
Anyway, here's something that proves Americans aren't always quite so concerned about emissions produced by diesel vehicles. The trend for "rolling coal" is a strange and anti-social one; basically doctoring diesel engined trucks to spew out the maximum amount of soot and clag, with the intended targets of such fume-based thuggery often being those with the temerity to drive a Prius or other hybrid.
Yet here's proof that the US diesel tuning culture does have another purpose: creating some amusingly fast pick-up trucks. Yes, they might give off more smoke than an oilwell fire, but it's hard not to be impressed by something this size and shape that's capable of running a sub-9 second quarter mile without spark plugs. They should put one of these in for EPA testing and see what the NOx figures look like...
Watch the video here.
Most of the trucks that "roll coal" aren't for the drag strip, and will never see one. They're most common in the midwest, southern Appalachia, and the southeast/south (rare in the northeast and west coast). They're usually lifted by 8cm or more, and dual rear-wheels and a wider rear end will exist if the owner could afford it. They're not intended to be fast (if most could break into the 14s in the 1/4 mile, I'd be surprised). They're just intended to produce a lot of smoke and noise, on demand.
I don't "get it", but just clarifying that they rarely are about performance. It's purely an "image thing" and a bit of antiestablishmentarianism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbkQDi57nig
Magazine if anyone's interested in such things:
http://www.trucktrend.com/diesel-power-magazine/
As for the UK, well we don't have the silly saying and our trucks aren't as big or powerful. But they can still be made to smoke..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbkQDi57nig
Very few TDi cars like that around!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZe7EPMTwSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZe7EPMTwSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZe7EPMTwSA
Always thought 'rollin coal' was a term used by the idiots with smoker kits and stack pipes.
Most of the high HP diesels will only smoke until the (usually HUGE) turbo comes on boost, at which point they burn relatively clean when there is enough air being forced in to use all the fuel being thrown in.
ETA; you can even see that in the video. Car starts, lots of smoke. You can hear the turbo spool up, and the smoke stops.
These lobotomised individuals are incredibly selfish and stupid! This is not an accidental result of tuning, but a deliberate aim to create a cloud of carcinogens and NOx for everyone to breathe. There have been talks of action on this in some states, I think after a politician was blasted by one of these oxygen thieves while driving an electric car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wdG3d4VFJA
That vid is a tuner challenge in the US and has some impressive figures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbkQDi57nig
Er how about the fug-off black smokescreen that nearly hides it! It couldn't be more obviously a diesel!
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