<div dir="ltr">I'm not sure that a diesel engine is even capable of rpms beyond 5,000.<div><br></div><div>Can't find any that report anything in excess of that.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's an interesting one.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.bankspower.com/magazines/show/535-diesel-land-speed-record-%E2%80%94-goal-of-project-sidewinder">http://www.bankspower.com/magazines/show/535-diesel-land-speed-record-%E2%80%94-goal-of-project-sidewinder</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Shortt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Rob Dumoulin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@dumoulins.net" target="_blank">rob@dumoulins.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">With more torque allows them to be geared different so they do not have to rev as high.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Rob DuMoulin<br><a href="tel:904.476.8744" value="+19044768744" target="_blank">904.476.8744</a><br><a href="mailto:rob@dumoulins.net" target="_blank">rob@dumoulins.net</a><div>
<a href="http://www.kbsi.co" target="_blank">www.kbsi.co</a></div><div><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-dumoulin/0/1b6/58" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial;font-size:small" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-dumoulin/0/1b6/58</a></div>
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<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Charles McCall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlesmccall@gmail.com" target="_blank">charlesmccall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div lang="EN-US" link="#0091D7" vlink="#5E6365"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Driving home in my (diesel) car this evening and had nothing better to do than look at my tach. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Why don’t diesel cars rev as high as petrol powered cars? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Because they can’t, or because they don’t need to? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What is redline of the Le Mans winning Audi?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><br></div>
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