[DeTomaso] NPC : Diesel redline

[Charles McCall]

Thanks

Useable power band is the rpm range you state - 3k to 5k. 

 

1100NM of torque is a whole lot! 

 

I've been to Le Mans when these cars were participating, and they sounded
like giant vacuum cleaners. It was horrible. I stopped attending the 24
hours race shortly after 

 

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Sent: jueves, 13 de febrero de 2014 20:48
To: Charles McCall
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC : Diesel redline

 

I found one answer.

 

3,000 - 5,000 rpms for the audi engine / 650 hp

 

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_112231/article.html

 

Michael Shortt

 

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:39 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com
<michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:

Good questions, my guess is that it has something to do with the fact that a
diesel has a much longer stroke than a gas engine,

there isn't enough time to make as many RPM's because the piston travels a
lot more on every trip around.

 

Michael Shortt.

 

 

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi all

 

Driving home in my (diesel) car this evening and had nothing better to do
than look at my tach. 

 

Why don't diesel cars rev as high as petrol powered cars? 

Because they can't, or because they don't need to? 

 

With much more low-end torque than a gas car, they don't need to rev as high
to move along. Is it their cam selection that makes all that low end torque
and limits revs or something specific to the diesel technology? If it were
cam selection, they could do the same to a gas engine I suppose.

 

What is redline of the Le Mans winning Audi?

 

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