Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheapskate
The exhaust smoke mod works on a speed related basis i.e. more speed = more smoke.
From what I've read (and remember from RB's original thread), it isn't quite as simple as that. 
A properly maintained diesel engine will emit some black smoke on startup and whilst accelerating. It is caused by the engine not burning all the diesel fuel being injected until it reached the desired operating rpm.
So in going from ahead slow to ahead one third say, the exhaust should show some smoke gradually reducing to nothing. This would happen each time the engine telegraph settings were increased. So even at flank, the engine would not always be smoking.
Racerboy's implementation was therefore rather unrealistic ..unless there was some malfunction, but it is nice eye-candy and many Kaleuns wouldn't be without it! |
Cheapskate is right. Having been on a Fleet Boat, start up and low RPMs causes smoke. At Standard speed or above I never saw smoke from the exhaust while under way. Unless it was a change in RPMs