End of Diesel cars is Nigh?

[kaanage]

i love how it pays you back with tangible rewards, too... (the blatantly abusive cloud of soot that other motorists just cant help asking for, every now and then).

Oh yeah - I forgot about that one.
Yep, save all that soot in the turbo and exhaust for when it's needed!!

(like for the diçkhead illegally parked while loading stuff into his car, causing a chokepoint - the big black cloud I left after squeezing past was most gratifying)

[Preen59]

You guys will see greatly reduced soot when using 2 stroke oil...

Gee, what a surprise the boss of a company that has just released a hybrid car that has a far worse total life cycle environmental cost than most diesels is saying diesel is dead.
Let me get back to you on whether I believe him.

This quote really says it all. Total life cycle to produce a hybrid with their VERY enviromentally damaging batteries (both to produce and dispose of when they're shot) is way worse than any Diesel, or even decently fuel efficient petrol car on the environment.

People who buy hybrids are either sheep, idiots or do gooders that want to look good infront of all the sheep and idiots.


On thr trip down to Drysdale with the Caddy, fully loaded up, towing a CAR TRAILER with the Mk1 on the back.. I got 7.6l/100km average for the trip.. Sitting on an easy 110 on the Hume.

I'd like to see ANY hybrid match that.

[kaanage]

You guys will see greatly reduced soot when using 2 stroke oil...

Already am (current tank Castrol TTS @ 200:1, prev tank Motul 800 same ratio)
Soot hasn't changed for off boost driving AFAICT. I still get a BIG dump when I 1st get it hard on boost after accumulating from off boost puttering about.

The dyno runs tomorrow will show if it soots more/less/same when on boost as the previous dyno session (when I sooted out the workshop) was before I started running 2 stroke as an additive as I'll give it some hammer on the way there to clear out the system.

Totally agree with the lifecycle and owner comments re hybrids.

BTW did you look at the Orbital injector link that I PM'd to you?

[Preen59]

That's interesting. I noticed a decent difference. The Caddy didn't soot all that much at all when I had it on the Dyno.

I did read the orbital link... Sorry I forgot to reply. Very interesting.

[kaanage]

I'm probably off boost for 95% of my driving - I'm guessing your Caddy is usually more heavily loaded so you'd be running on boost far more. Very impressive figures with the towing, though

The map that I'm running ain't stock (and neither is Scotty's) hence the dyno cloud.

As for Orbital, there is so much potential there it's sad that it hasn't been taken up for more application
The stupid FIM and FIA regs don't help

[Preen59]

I'm probably off boost for 95% of my driving - I'm guessing your Caddy is usually more heavily loaded so you'd be running on boost far more. Very impressive figures with the towing, though

The map that I'm running ain't stock (and neither is Scotty's) hence the dyno cloud.

As for Orbital, there is so much potential there it's sad that it hasn't been taken up for more application
The stupid FIM and FIA regs don't help

I'm just running a TDI (Turbo Diesel International) piggyback. Can't justify software at the moment, really. Next thing will be a free flowing exhaust to get the heat away from the turbo...

Yes, FIM and FIA hamstring themselves sometimes.


This it getting waaaaaaay off topic.

[kaanage]

Check SuperChips and Viezu - their remaps are very affordable and Viezu, which Scotty and I run, has the option of being switchable (sadly SuperChips don't have a Bluefin option for the 1.9 PD).

Going more OT, back in the 80's, a club that I was a member of had windcheaters with the following printed on the back
FISA + FOCA = FIASCO

[Buller_Scott]

2 stroke for lubricity? what kind of ratio / amount per tank?

and that towing economy should be plastered all over the hybrid forums, preenie.


at work, i once had a guy and a girl tell me, very very matter of factly, that i should watch things in the polo, because diesels might seem okay for a couple of years, but after three years or so become very fuel inefficient.... fuel economy plummets and CO2 emissions skyrocket. he drove a grey import japanese car (quite frankly, ufcking boring - the whole "im driving someone else's sloppy thirds from japan that cant even sell over there because it's been hacked to death already but im gonna drive around looking like im the isht" thing), and she drove an early 2000's magna.

yet they both knew what they were talking about.

everyone associates hybrids with "eco friendly", but why not VAG group tdis, which ARE eco friendly?

[kaanage]

Diesels are dirty/smelly/yucky so must be environmental disasters.
Greenies aren't mathematically literate.

As for 2 stroke, I'm running the "standard" recommendation - 200:1

See http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f28/...ing-55494.html for the fun and games here and there's a link to the original source of info in there (where you'll find I got involved recently too).

[Buller_Scott]

Diesels are dirty/smelly/yucky so must be environmental disasters.
Greenies aren't mathematically literate.

As for 2 stroke, I'm running the "standard" recommendation - 200:1

See http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f28/...ing-55494.html for the fun and games here and there's a link to the original source of info in there (where you'll find I got involved recently too).

cheers.

have 2 stroke oil. will put in tonight.