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General Information => General => Topic started by: Rat407 on August 24, 2006, 02:18:03 am

Title: diesel land speed record
Post by: Rat407 on August 24, 2006, 02:18:03 am

Not a vw but it is a diesel.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-23T151359Z_01_L23316961_RTRUKOC_0_UK-TRANSPORT-DIESEL-RECORD.xml

Title: diesel land speed record
Post by: burn_your_money on August 24, 2006, 01:43:23 pm

9 meters long  :shock:

Title: diesel land speed record
Post by: RacerZX on August 24, 2006, 02:25:30 pm

That article and record is already out of date.  The same crew went out the next day and did 350MPH:
http://www.jcbdieselmax.com (http://www.jcbdieselmax.com/html/home.php)
(http://www.jcbdieselmax.com/downloads/dl_800_1212_03eb.jpg)

Do you think Giles can rebuild my 1.6L NA IP to do that?   :wink:

Title: diesel land speed record
Post by: jtanguay on August 24, 2006, 03:30:24 pm

Quote from: RacerZX

That article and record is already out of date.  The same crew went out the next day and did 350MPH:
http://www.jcbdieselmax.com (http://www.jcbdieselmax.com/html/home.php)


Do you think Giles can rebuild my 1.6L NA IP to do that?   :wink:

Give him about a million bucks... and I bet you he could  :wink:

you're NA pump might not look like a stock NA pump anymore though... if at all..  :lol:

Title: diesel land speed record
Post by: jamesdemien on August 30, 2006, 03:45:17 pm

my golf tops out at around 325mph.... those dudes must of done something special...

Title: diesel land speed record
Post by: jtanguay on August 30, 2006, 04:08:43 pm

Quote from: jamesdemien

my golf tops out at around 325mph.... those dudes must of done something special...

325mph????

1st of all, how do you measure how fast you're going? GPS???  :lol: