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44 www.bigrigowner.com September 2013 tech Emissions Analyzer, and the report is 1100 pages per test. This is an actual onhighway California approved test with a loaded semi truck. As you can see by the results, the ported and ceramic coated exhaust manifold and the 15% larger turbo resulted in a decrease of emissions by 29%. Just think what the results could have been if we would have had the time to install the Fleet Air Filter and the quiet performance straight through muffler; the two together allows the engine to improve fuel mileage by ½ mpg. The emissions might have dropped another 10 to 15%. As you can see, with two of our products we dropped 29%. Just think what four of the products could do. And we haven't even fined tuned this engine; it was just a bone stock DD4 Detroit. I think we all are going to be amazed at what we can do to lower emissions and still have a great running truck in the next few months. Something to think about: by increasing a semi truck's fuel mileage from 6 to 7 mpg or gaining 1 mpg, 3,571 gallons of fuel will be saved every 150,000 miles driven. If we could increase all 4 million trucks in the USA by the 1 mpg, which is possible, the trucking industry would burn 14,284,000,000 gallons less each year. That is 14.284 trillion gallons, and eliminates 324 tanker loads of foreign crude oil, and 1,785,500 less tanker trucks delivering diesel to truck stops. I think that is quite an environmental impact for our great country at just 1 mpg. Imagine what happens when we get a 2 mpg improvement! hpd 0913.indd 2 High Performance Diesels Fun hp from cars Our engineering department has two chassis dynos, one for semi trucks, and one for pick up trucks and cars. We have had some very unique vehicles on the dyno this past month, including a 1995 Camaro with a bored and stroked small block at 396 cubic inches that is blown and at 17 psi of boost produced 802 horsepower is female owned and raced. We also has a Hemi Challenger which is also blown and at 8 psi produced 620 hp and is just a weekend toy car, and a beautiful black 1962 Nova, with a serious big block Chevrolet. However, the Nova is tubbed and the wheels and tires have such a large inset they would not fit on the dyno. There, we could not geta horsepower reading. Finally, we tested a class record holder at the Bonneville Salt Flats – a 1993 Corvette with a 477 cu. In big block with two Big Cam 3, 400 Cummins Holset Turbos producing 22 psi of turbo boost and the horsepower was 1382. The speed this car ran at Bonneville last summer was 256 miles per hour. They are trying to hit the 300 mph this year. Exciting things are happening at Pittsburgh Power and I will have more good news next month about improving emissions. • Written by: Bruce Mallinson Pittsburgh Power Inc. 3600 S. Noah Drive Saxonburg, Pa. 16056 724-360-4080 Bruce@Pittsburghpower.com 8/7/13 11:56 AM