[DeTomaso] NPC : Diesel redline

[Rob Dumoulin]

With more torque allows them to be geared different so they do not have to
rev as high.

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

> 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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