“Name one thing about your line of work that you don’t like, McTaggart!” Oh, that’s easy: coal rolling diesels. I’m not talking diesels in general. I’m not talking about machines that leave a little puff of smoke at the starting line then burn clean the rest of the run…that’s the way it should be. I’m not talking about making 1,500-plus horsepower with Rudolph Diesel’s contribution to the automobile. I’m not talking about pulling trucks that are competition-only machines that get put on a trailer after they are finished dragging one down a 300 foot long dirt path. I’m talking about every last moron who thinks that pouring black smoke out of the exhaust of their used truck…that shit I just can’t stand. The trucks with the gigantic call-out stickers in the back window and on the tailgate. The ones owned by people who get a sense of giddiness about themselves when a Prius is next to them at a stoplight, at the perfect angle to get a face full of black smoke. Coal rollers…I wouldn’t miss them if they were gone.
What’s the deal with coal-rolling, anyways? Why is it an actual thing and what is the science behind it? For that, we will let Donut Media explain how it works, from the chemical compounds of fuel to a practical (and dangerous) explanation of what goes on inside the cylinder of a rig that has been tuned so fat that it has the capability to block out the sun before the third-gear shift. Here’s how the process works, from ignition to the moment that hopefully ends with some cop writing an illegal modification ticket.
