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Originally Posted by lasitter
Thanks for the tips, but the whole purpose of the trip is to show what you can achieve with well maintained, old trucks if you leave the emissions controls in place and drive reasonably. Too many people that drive older trucks are convinced that they'll get better power and economy by ripping out the emissions controls, and nothing could be further from the truth.
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Well I don't know if nothing could be further from the truth. I bet a new tune with massive lean burn and no catalytic converter would do much better. NOX would be through the roof but Economy would be up. I'm also very sure that any power gains and losses can be shown with dynamometers and there are things that will increase power especially in the 80's and early 90's the dark ages of emission controls. Increasing power won't help economy but many people do the emission deletes for proven gains in power and don't care about better economy. So again, those things can be pretty close to the truth. You just are more of an economy guy but I guarantee I could make your truck quicker IE more powerful by removing emissions and tuning for power.