Diesel ftw?

[Mr Revhead]

http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/live/pages/chronos_gb.html

just over 8 hours to go and a good lead for the Audis.....

thumbs up for NZ media for the awesome coverage

[Adamal]

I reckon, I've always wanted to watch some Le Mans stuff...

And who would have thought... A diesel!

[Mr Revhead]

yeah victory to the audis!

pity the aston faltered near the end

[fivebob]

And who would have thought... A diesel!

A lot of people

It's been tried before with converted engines, this was the first purpose built racing diesel engines, with a specially designed gearbox. The earlier attempts used converted commercial engines, which had too much torque for the clutch/gerabox to handle.

Le Mans is all about he pit stops, cut one of those out and you have a huge advantage. As Audi found earlier by using direct injectiuon petrol engines, the diesel just took it one step further.

While there is piss poor media coverage in this country you can still get Radio LeMans on the net, I've listened to it for the last two years, and while it can get boring, it's a good background sound while you're working

[Mr Revhead]

yeah after following the development of the R10 i was kinda expecting it. only really competition was the pescoralas (spelling )

i had the live timing up on the net all day and kept an eye on it.

hopefully be some coverage soon

[Adamal]

I actually find it quite funny, most people out there will say "Diesels are crap! They've got no power!!"

What they neglect to think about, is the amount of torque they make. Most of the turbo diesels will make peak torque at low RPM, even if they only max at about 4500RPM! And they carry it through the rev range.
Just give em a gearbox with some really long ratio's...

[sergei]

Well, you people should see the looks I get when I tell that I'm going to get and modify 1.5 Turbo Diesel, as daily driver (well my long term plan is to use different turbo, tweak injection pump, st165 intercooler, 2 bar boost or even free-boost, + lots of other cooling addons/mods)...

[Mr Revhead]

the days of diesels being quirky gutless and noisey oddballs are over.
look at audi and bmw..... they have geniune diesel sport sedans in their ranges.

now if only NZ would sorts its shit and give us decent diesel!!

[Caveman]

Plus you can use biodesiel which you can make at home and get more power out of