awaken dieselers...

[gldgti]

...cough...

quiet on here guys! maybe 'cos our diesels are all too reliable and boring?

just a thought.

has anyone got any diesel engine parts they want to give/loan/sell me? im trying to put together an engine to put on the university dyno later this year for my final year project, i will be testing out the IDI engines perfomance characteristics and trying to improve power/efficiency by means of injector pump modifications, fuel type experiments, forced induction, heat insulation for swirl chambers etc etc.

if anyone has something that they want to contribute i'll be very happy to accept your thoughts/ideas/spare parts.

by request, people who help me out may have a copy of my written project at the end including findings and conclusions to my research/development - this also helps me to be motivated to achieve something!

[smithy010]

Mate, that's an awesome thesis project!

Something i suggest you do (if you haven't already) is have a read of the technical paper that i posted in the documents section. It's written by two of the dudes who designed the engine originally. Good lit review stuff!

Can't supply any parts though... i only have one myself!

Makes my thesis project sound boring!

Smithy

[GoLfMan]

fantastic mate!
yeh im just entering into mechanical engineering... best of luk for your final year project
youll go great

[Golf Loon]

pm Edison he has a few rooted Diesel engines

[Edison]

actually just the one in the white car, which he's welcome to use as he wishes, I'm not as certian as you are that it's anything more than the gasket, but anyhow, I guess he'd find out if he pulls it out of there, also there is the fawn GLD he can have too when i take out the engine and put it into the white one. so there is a shell and a (probably) rooted engine.
Especially good for the fringe science (I wonder what happens if we use solid rocket boosters?)
[the few i looked at on the gold coast were from the jurassic period and they were 99% oxide]

[gldgti]

actually just the one in the white car, which he's welcome to use as he wishes, I'm not as certian as you are that it's anything more than the gasket, but anyhow, I guess he'd find out if he pulls it out of there, also there is the fawn GLD he can have too when i take out the engine and put it into the white one. so there is a shell and a (probably) rooted engine.
Especially good for the fringe science (I wonder what happens if we use solid rocket boosters?)
[the few i looked at on the gold coast were from the jurassic period and they were 99% oxide]

i reckon a golf would go a lot faster with a rocket that that stupid yank tank when they tried it on mythbusters.... too heavy!

[gldgti]

edison, pm sent to you...

[vinderliker]

I'd love to post and boast about my 2007 model Audi A3 Sportback with 125 factory kws on tap. It is just that I can't afford to buy one yet!!! Driven it long time (24hr plus test) would love it long time!!!

[ausgolfer]

Great project, sounds extremely involved, hope theres a few of you working on it and not just yourself.

[GoLfMan]

I'd love to post and boast about my 2007 model Audi A3 Sportback with 125 factory kws on tap. It is just that I can't afford to buy one yet!!! Driven it long time (24hr plus test) would love it long time!!!

you'd love it even longer time with a chip

[gldgti]

Great project, sounds extremely involved, hope theres a few of you working on it and not just yourself.

i wish. indeed it is only myself working on this project - i may have to limit the scope of the project depending on how it unfolds and how much work is required at different stages.

the project as a whole should arguably be pursued by more people but i'd like to think that this is the first step of many into further development of the indirect injection diesel engine - maybe my work (if done well) will inspire some investigation by more traditional gurus of the technology, like Ricardo, Mercedes, VW etc.

[GoLfMan]

i wish. indeed it is only myself working on this project - i may have to limit the scope of the project depending on how it unfolds and how much work is required at different stages.

the project as a whole should arguably be pursued by more people but i'd like to think that this is the first step of many into further development of the indirect injection diesel engine - maybe my work (if done well) will inspire some investigation by more traditional gurus of the technology, like Ricardo, Mercedes, VW etc.

best of luck mate, final year projects are a real slog (from what i've heard)... keep us all updated with some pictures and the like, very interested to hear about it

[smithy010]

best of luck mate, final year projects are a real slog (from what i've heard)... keep us all updated with some pictures and the like, very interested to hear about it

Believe me. When you get to 3 months to go they definitely are....

[GoLfMan]

Believe me. When you get to 3 months to go they definitely are....

i just started mech eng i got 4 years to go

[vinderliker]

haven't seen any performance stuff around for the new Audi 125kw diesel as yet, but hey it goes like a cut snake now, I can imagine what another 10 to 20kw could do, but I'd have to reflect that the original reason I got this car is for its' fuel economy. I'd have to win more money on lotto etc for my R32/36, GTi all beefed up off course.

you'd love it even longer time with a chip