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Old 06-18-2010, 07:47 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Crazyrabbit View Post
Air flow is neither here nor there. Not sure why anyone would even try to measure it on a Diesel, unless it was for trend monitoring, like: Is the turbo performance what it used to be?
They wanted the engine not to smoke under any circumstances, and keep the EGT low. If you don't monitor airflow and you have a gunked up intake from crankcase vent oil and egr soot, you'll get smoke out the back under high load and high EGT.
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