L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick

Re:L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living the... by vvanders on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:02PM (#13778172)

Most trucks on the road should be Tier IV and using DPF + DEF. I think they mandated it as a requirement for all semi trucks a few years back as well.

There are people who install "delete-pipes" though, and they should be taken out back and made to inhale what they spew.

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Re:L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living the... by tekromancr on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:23PM (#13778357)

For anyone else curious, I googled it and it looks like a delete-pipe, (aka muffler delete, cat delete) is basicly a muffler/catalytic converter bypass device. Some do it for performance, some for the noise, some explicitly to "piss off tree-hugging liberals".

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Re:L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living the... by Klathmon on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:47PM (#13778544)

Good god have you ever see someone "rolling coal"? it's insane.

Big lifted trucks spouting thick black smoke from their exhaust that leave behind little ashy flecks.

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Re:L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living the... by vvanders on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:54PM (#13778616)

Oh yeah, we get plenty of them out here in the rural parts. Friggin stupid.

We've got a little '81 tractor that's a 3-cyc 1.4L diesel and if the wind blows the wrong way you definitely don't want to inhale too deeply. I'd love to convert it to Tier IV but there just aren't kits made for it.

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