OT: Diesel was never like this

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<snip>
>Wonder if we'll ever see diesels pulling the 1/4 mile sprint competitively.

only if they've got about 300 gears ;-)

Si


 
On or around Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:34:26 +0100, "William Tasso"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Greetings
>
>Here's a little off-topicary
>
>Hopes high for diesel speed bid
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/...m=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=5274952
>
>if that link doesn't do it for you, then chase the vid from here:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/5273540.stm

I've been wondering how they were getting on.

>Wonder if we'll ever see diesels pulling the 1/4 mile sprint competitively.

dunno - it depends if anyone can be arsed, I should think - most things can
be done with enough money and effort. Look at the work and money that went
into thrust SSC for example. remember watching that on the telly, and it
was an amazing moment when it made it through the barrier.
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On or around Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:46:28 +0100, "GrnOval"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

><snip>
>>Wonder if we'll ever see diesels pulling the 1/4 mile sprint competitively.
>
>only if they've got about 300 gears ;-)

nah, sod-off torque converter and no gears at all. acceleration is mostly
down to torque, and diesels are good at torque.
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"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On or around Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:46:28 +0100, "GrnOval"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> ><snip>
> >>Wonder if we'll ever see diesels pulling the 1/4 mile sprint
competitively.
> >
> >only if they've got about 300 gears ;-)
>
> nah, sod-off torque converter and no gears at all. acceleration is mostly
> down to torque, and diesels are good at torque.
>
You're spot on there, you would never manage to change the 300 gears in
1/4 mile anyway, take too long. ;-)

Martin


 
Oily wrote:
> "Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On or around Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:46:28 +0100, "GrnOval"
>> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>> <snip>
>>>> Wonder if we'll ever see diesels pulling the 1/4 mile sprint
> competitively.
>>> only if they've got about 300 gears ;-)
>> nah, sod-off torque converter and no gears at all. acceleration is mostly
>> down to torque, and diesels are good at torque.
>>
> You're spot on there, you would never manage to change the 300 gears in
> 1/4 mile anyway, take too long. ;-)
>
> Martin
>
>
Didn't they do well? 100 mph or so faster than the previous record. Well done,
Bamfords! Makes me proud I used to be a Pom :)


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Duracell Bunny wrote:
> Oily wrote:
>
>> "Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>
>>> On or around Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:46:28 +0100, "GrnOval"
>>> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> Wonder if we'll ever see diesels pulling the 1/4 mile sprint
>>
>> competitively.
>>
>>>> only if they've got about 300 gears ;-)
>>>
>>> nah, sod-off torque converter and no gears at all. acceleration is
>>> mostly
>>> down to torque, and diesels are good at torque.
>>>
>> You're spot on there, you would never manage to change the 300
>> gears in
>> 1/4 mile anyway, take too long. ;-)
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
> Didn't they do well? 100 mph or so faster than the previous record. Well
> done, Bamfords! Makes me proud I used to be a Pom :)
>
>
Once a pom, always a pom...

Stuart
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On 2006-08-22, William Tasso <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hopes high for diesel speed bid
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/...m=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=5274952

It seems that no-one else in this thread noticed that Le Mans 24-hour
race was won this year by a diesel, and I don't mean the diesel class,
or anything else, it was won outright by an Audi diesel. It was more
fuel economic so didn't have to stop so much, and also just simply
outperformed the petrol cars. It did 380 laps in 24 hours, a new
record (the race is run over 24 hours so the amount of laps varies).

Diesels have a number of concessions in the race, but much of this is
to overcome the artificial limitations of a race, e.g. intake diameter
restrictions don't apply in real life but do in the race, instantly
putting diesels at an unfair disadvantage as diesels eat more air per
unit of power produced, so the restrictions were relaxed for diesels.
A range of other changes were made too, but again all were to cater
for entirely petrol-oriented technical restrictions. The only area
the audi really had an advantage is that it was allowed to carry as
much fuel as the petrol cars, which helps because diesel carries more
energy per litre than petrol.

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On or around Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:07:33 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>It seems that no-one else in this thread noticed that Le Mans 24-hour
>race was won this year by a diesel, and I don't mean the diesel class,
>or anything else, it was won outright by an Audi diesel. It was more
>fuel economic so didn't have to stop so much, and also just simply
>outperformed the petrol cars. It did 380 laps in 24 hours, a new
>record (the race is run over 24 hours so the amount of laps varies).

I noticed that, and I was impressed. Mind you, endurance racing is not
formula 1, but even so.

while clearing up my room the other day, I found a CAR special supplement
about a project to break the 24-hour distance record for a production car,
which they did a few years back with a Vovlo, around millbrook's high-speed
bowl. average of about 143 mph for 24 hours.
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Boswell's "Johnson".
 
Duracell Bunny wrote:
> Oily wrote:
>> "Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> On or around Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:46:28 +0100, "GrnOval"
>>> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> Wonder if we'll ever see diesels pulling the 1/4 mile sprint
>> competitively.
>>>> only if they've got about 300 gears ;-)
>>> nah, sod-off torque converter and no gears at all. acceleration is
>>> mostly down to torque, and diesels are good at torque.
>>>
>> You're spot on there, you would never manage to change the 300
>> gears in 1/4 mile anyway, take too long. ;-)
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
> Didn't they do well? 100 mph or so faster than the previous record.
> Well done, Bamfords! Makes me proud I used to be a Pom :)

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