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General Information => General => Topic started by: saurkraut on April 20, 2009, 07:06:15 am

Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: saurkraut on April 20, 2009, 07:06:15 am: (http://vwgallery.net/gallery/d/6901-1/RabbitBrochure04.jpg)
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: spencebm on April 20, 2009, 07:33:27 am: simply amazing, just imagine what a 1.6 could accomplish!
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: Smokey Eddy on April 20, 2009, 02:41:22 pm: OR that engine with a computer to control the timing of the injection AND 1.9L instead! and a zero tolerance engine with swirl chambers in the pistons instead of in the head!!! Direct injection! I'm a GENIUS!!!
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: Turbinepowered on April 20, 2009, 03:03:44 pm: Quote from: "Smokey Eddy"
OR that engine with a computer to control the timing of the injection AND 1.9L instead! and a zero tolerance engine with swirl chambers in the pistons instead of in the head!!! Direct injection! I'm a GENIUS!!!

Direct injection actually predated indirect injection. IDI was chosen for passenger vehicles because it was quieter and had greater ability to rev higher than a DI diesel did, at what was at the time a very acceptably small loss of efficiency.

Even now, a 1.9TD will rev higher (unmodified) than a 1.9 TDI, and the latter has the fancy computer controlled fuel injection and modern alloys working for it.

I'd love to see a return to IDI with miniscule displacement small diesels (<1L and ~3 cylinders or so) with computerized injection control and modern materials. Almost sounds like an engine suitable for a motorcycle... :twisted:
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: subsonic on April 20, 2009, 06:00:57 pm: You mean like this?

http://www.olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_m1030_m1d.php
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: Turbinepowered on April 20, 2009, 07:22:16 pm: Quote from: "subsonic"
You mean like this?

http://www.olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_m1030_m1d.php

I'd go for one of those. :D
Title: Re: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: saurkraut on April 21, 2009, 05:56:41 am: Looks like the Copy Right police have decended and have smited my photobucket account. :roll:
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: drrtybyl on April 21, 2009, 07:35:54 am: Somehow I don't think VW would be in any way concerned with you reviving that kind of copyrighted material :o

Average speed of 78.75 MPH for 18 days...
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: saurkraut on April 21, 2009, 08:12:08 am: Quote from: "drrtybyl"
Somehow I don't think VW would be in any way concerned with you reviving that kind of copyrighted material :o

Average speed of 78.75 MPH for 18 days...

You would be surprized.

It was the only photo missing from my Photobucket account. :shock:

I boosted the photo from a post in the Vortex, and that got nuked too.
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: Smokey Eddy on April 21, 2009, 02:43:50 pm: Quote from: "saurkraut"
Quote from: "drrtybyl"
Somehow I don't think VW would be in any way concerned with you reviving that kind of copyrighted material :o

Average speed of 78.75 MPH for 18 days...

You would be surprized.

It was the only photo missing from my Photobucket account. :shock:

I boosted the photo from a post in the Vortex, and that got nuked too.

That's so stupid.

    M1030    M1030B1    M1030M1
NSN   2340-01-340-5246   2340-01-465-2533   2340-01-530-9371
Length   86 in.    85 in.    85 in.
Width   34 in.    35.75 in     35.75 in.
Height   48 in.    54 in.     54 in.
Curb Weight   293 lbs    358 lbs    369 lbs
Fuel   MOGAS    MOGAS    JP8/Diesel
Capacity   2.8 gal. 6.0 gal.    4.2 gal.
MPG   75    55    96
Fording depth   18 in.    24 in.    24 in.
Engine    23 hp. 1 cyl, 250cc     48 hp. 1 cyl, 651cc    30 hp. 1 cyl, 611cc
Transmission    six speeds    five speeds    five speeds

Hahahahhaha 96mpg!!!!
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: drrtybyl on April 21, 2009, 06:31:04 pm: It's an EPA conspiracy to enforce copyright. They don't want us to know that diesels > hybrids, and VW doesn't want us to know that the '79 rabbit D was more fuel efficient than their current fleet.
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: jtanguay on April 22, 2009, 09:03:18 am: http://www.vwdiesel.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2329&highlight=idi+future

anyone who has not read that thread, must do so immediately if they like IDI engines :) OR ELSE!!! :lol:
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: katakura silk on April 28, 2009, 07:53:48 pm: Sorry, Im a little late.... :)
(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/81/l_f1be773c72bb48f8a219abe4eb55677c.jpg)
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: Smokey Eddy on April 30, 2009, 03:46:30 am: i absolutely love that pic. anyone have a hi-res one? pm me:D
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: Green79 on May 03, 2009, 10:41:12 pm: So was there a 5-spd tranny available in '79? I get nervous going over 60 in my '79 1.5D 4 speed. 15k miles at 78 mph is impressive, if they used a 4-spd. Or maybe I don't rev mine out nearly as much as I should be... I always seem to shift once-removed from those little orange dots on the speedo, which would tell me that I'm not nearly as high in the rpms as VW intended.
Title: Page from '79 Diesel Brochure
Post by: katakura silk on May 04, 2009, 07:18:08 am: I know what you mean... :D But I do get to 70mph with out even knowing sometimes... I think we under estimate what strength these little 1.5L engines have. But the sound sure is scary.

Every time im on the interstate, im just waiting for the timing belt to shred or to see smoke start bellowing from the back because im drinking coolant from a blown head gasket. :shock:

It will never happen though. (im knocking on would as I type this...)