i've just wet my derv loving pants

"Rob" wrote in news:nSfch.753$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net:

Good God. I had to look twice to make sure it was diesel. Would be a great toy to fill up at an obviously derv pump, amongst the lorries :-)

See about a year ago I suggested a big V8 diesel supercar but mid=20 engined. And everyone said it could never work. Now look, "F*ck me a V8 supercar" type thing.

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I want it!

Something's up with your posting... I had to manually put the funky >s in above.

About a year ago I was sizing up a Caterham with a four cylinder turbodiesel as a post-Ka runabout. Not exactly the same as the V8 turbodiesel supercar of course, but, not what most people would expect to see at the diesel filler.

I'd say that was quite obviously marketing bollocks and not something you'd have a hope in hell of getting in the real world.

I guess he has Gravity, it's a known problem.

My suggestion was for a 4 cyl VAG lump as the 1.9 will put out 170+ bhp with just a re map (on the 130) and over 250 with the right turbo. That V8 is only

Too much for what I wanted it for, both in the power and weight elements. They're nimble because they don't have much weight over the front and without power assisted steering, the larger capacity units will be too heavy.

I was thinking more of the 1.4s, 1.5s and 1.6s available, those with 100 bhp

I've not followed the link. In specific output terms most Cummins / PowerStroke / whatever large capacity diesels look relatively weany.

And run it on BioWillie too to really f*ck them over.

That's wrong on so many levels.

Just wrong.

At 400 rpm? I reckon you might

In theory, 56mph may be 400rpm. Out on real roads, it's highly unlikely to be achievable.

In the same way that Audi reckoned it would be impossible to drive from London to Edinburgh and back on a single tank of diesel when they launched the 4.0 V8 diesel A8?

Why, does the gearing change from the test track to the A1?

Well it wasn't, Clarkson failed didn't he - ran just short ? (Think I've still got that on my HD somewhere actually...).

They haven't tested it at 400rpm - they've simulated it on a computer.

I think the engine would stall before it fell to 400rpm on a road or test track.

Then watch it again quick and post that you were joking and you knew he made it really ;-)

Only if failed means he breathed a big sigh of relief standing on the forecourt of the garage he started from.

He never did say that he was able to restart the car though afterwards to get it to the diesel pump.

I'm not so sure. My lorry has an engine twice the size but the vehicle weighs 20-30 times as much. It can quite happily roll along at 600RPM all day long and the odd time when I've cocked up a gearchange and forgot to switch to low range, I've been able to pull away from a roundabout from below tickover speeds in a fairly high gear.

Big diesels are good at doing that sort of thing although I expect the antistall in the engine management would prevent it maintaining 400RPM and at least bring it up to the idle speed.

Why? My 4-pot diesel will trickle along at 700rpm, so a proportionally bigger 8-pot should easily manage 400rpm.