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.
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 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
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:
VW had direct injection engines in the 80s?
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...
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