[DeTomaso] NPC : Diesel redline

thomas thomas at hax.se
Thu Feb 13 16:15:54 EST 2014


Diesels inject fuel during the entire combustion vs the gasoline engine that has the entire fuel/load in the cylinder before ignition. I think this also causes a slower cycle.


> 13 feb 2014 kl. 21:38 skrev Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>:
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> Charlie,
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> I think the lower diesel rev limit has to do with a combination of higher compression ratios requiring longer strokes and the fact diesel burns a lot slower than gasoline.
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> Julian
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> From: charlesmccall at gmail.com
> To: detomaso at poca.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:33:19 +0100
> Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC : Diesel redline
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> Hi all
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> Driving home in my (diesel) car this evening and had nothing better to do than look at my tach.
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> Why don’t diesel cars rev as high as petrol powered cars?
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> Because they can’t, or because they don’t need to?
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> 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…
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> What is redline of the Le Mans winning Audi?
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