<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br>13 feb 2014 kl. 21:38 skrev Julian Kift <<a href="mailto:julian_kift@hotmail.com">julian_kift@hotmail.com</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">Charlie,<br> <br>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.<br> <br>Julian<br> <br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:charlesmccall@gmail.com">charlesmccall@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:detomaso@poca.com">detomaso@poca.com</a><br>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:33:19 +0100<br>Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC : Diesel redline<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hi all</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Driving home in my (diesel) car this evening and had nothing better to do than look at my tach. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Why don’t diesel cars rev as high as petrol powered cars? </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Because they can’t, or because they don’t need to? </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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…</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What is redline of the Le Mans winning Audi?</span></p></div><br>_______________________________________________
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