Just drove a duramax 2500HD. wow.

[anarchyx34]

I just drove an '05 GMC Sierra with the duramax diesel engine. OMFG the torque from that motor makes my pee-pee feel funny. It got me to thinking, would I have any chance of making my 1.6TD feel that way? The pull was simply addicting.

[zyewdall]

I drove one of the new Jeep Liberty CRD's the other week.   Wow!   Imagine as much power as a Jetta TDI, but in a giant boat of an SUV instead of a little car.  I really don't understand why everyone hates diesels for being slow....   (well, okay, all of mine are, but 20 year old 4 cylinder gas cars aren't that fast either)

[RabbitJockey]

I drove one of the new Jeep Liberty CRD's the other week.   Wow!   Imagine as much power as a Jetta TDI, but in a giant boat of an SUV instead of a little car.  I really don't understand why everyone hates diesels for being slow....   (well, okay, all of mine are, but 20 year old 4 cylinder gas cars aren't that fast either)

i agree, my cars not particularly fast, it only runs low-mid 16's, so alot of cars can beat me, but there is no other car from the 1981 that you can 3 adjustments on and shave like 2 seconds off of it, plus what other 4 cylinder car from 1981 can run a 16 haha  the turbo cars from then were barely doing 16s

[jtanguay]

I drove one of the new Jeep Liberty CRD's the other week.   Wow!   Imagine as much power as a Jetta TDI, but in a giant boat of an SUV instead of a little car.  I really don't understand why everyone hates diesels for being slow....   (well, okay, all of mine are, but 20 year old 4 cylinder gas cars aren't that fast either)

i agree, my cars not particularly fast, it only runs low-mid 16's, so alot of cars can beat me, but there is no other car from the 1981 that you can 3 adjustments on and shave like 2 seconds off of it, plus what other 4 cylinder car from 1981 can run a 16 haha  the turbo cars from then were barely doing 16s

actually the vw direct injection engines of the 80's were very easily adjusted.   :twisted:  extremely bad for fuel economy, but they go mad fast after a bit of timing and fuel distribution tweaks  :twisted:  :twisted:

[coke]

VW had direct injection engines in the 80s?

[burn_your_money]

not diesel....

[jtanguay]

yea my mechanic knows them cars so well.  with a few mods he did (all in about 5 minutes or so) the car was just eating everything on the streets (and my wallet)

must have turned a 100 hp engine to around 130 or possibly higher...  and the car being a golf... made it a bit of a sleeper!

gasoline direct injection... ahhhh...  the german airplanes had fuel injection... wonder if it was direct injection...

[lord_verminaard]

Um, I dont know any older VW gassers that had direct injection- my Scirocco is mechanically fuel injected, and yes the injectors are in the head, but they are not direct-injected.  Other than the pancake engines, VW only had 2 basic head designs from the 70-s on up, and none of them were direct-injected.  Perhaps you are thinking of something else?

Brendan
84 Scirocco 8v
00 Camaro L36 M49