Diesel Golf R?

[Captain Courteous]

Hmm.. Golf RD..

At least you know the engine will last a million years.

[Guy_H]

Lets face it, best news in this bulletin is weight reduction! Anyone remember why the MK1 Golf GTI was so revolutionary (performance wise) with a pretty ordinary engine? - 800kg's! Almost 1/2 of what my Golf R weighs. Get a Golf R down to 1200kg's & I wouldn't care if it had a diesel motor

[Greg Roles]

Very Lotus thinking there guy - Ariel Atom you tube videos do make me giggle like a schoolgirl....you may be onto something!

[team_v]

Lets face it, best news in this bulletin is weight reduction! Anyone remember why the MK1 Golf GTI was so revolutionary (performance wise) with a pretty ordinary engine? - 800kg's! Almost 1/2 of what my Golf R weighs. Get a Golf R down to 1200kg's & I wouldn't care if it had a diesel motor

Remove rear seats / spare tyre / run half a tank of fuel should net you around 100kg or so?

[Buller_Scott]

Seeing for myself I agree. DOVW Saturday cruise surprised me just how zippy the diesels were. Scotty I was first surprised when following you. Thought I would have to lay off the loud pedal so I wouldn't get too close to you into and out of the corners. After a couple of bends realised I didn't have to, lol.

Anyways diesel advancements in racing has come in leaps and bounds and is only going to be a good thing for the likes of the maybe R diesel. If an R diesel does happen one day I don't think they'd just make it look fast.

lol no offense nor disrespect intended towards the petrol .:R boys - i have much respect for the gti and R, especially given their tuneability as seen right here in melbourne - i merely said what i said based on the fact that they reckon they're going to make the diesel .:R LIGHTER! <- operative word... if they seriously shed a good 150kgs or whatever, and worked on the weight distribution somehow, it'd work. but i wont deny that a constant theme in my quest to "finish" my car's setup, has been trying to battle understeer from the heavy diesel block. if they could somehow counter that like they seem to in the bmw's (lots of diesel 3 series bmw's on nurburgring vids, driving hard), then they might just have a goer on their hands, although it would HAVE to be proper awd.

and however defensive i may be, Greg, it aint nothin on how defensive i'd be if i owned a clio with a tuned 2.0tdi engine, which still maintained the clio's balance and dynamics... THEN i'd be stropping around like the world's strongest billionaire...

[kaanage]

so I wouldn't get too close to you into and out of the corners

You should lay back anyway so you don't cop a facefull of dirty çrap from those dirty PD engines.

The DPF equipped CR engines can still dump soot, too - I followed a (obviously) diesel Q7 one day and the soot that came out of the tailpipes every time it took off was appalling and somewhat embarrassing.

[vk]

You should lay back anyway so you don't cop a facefull of dirty çrap from those dirty PD engines.

The DPF equipped CR engines can still dump soot, too - I followed a (obviously) diesel Q7 one day and the soot that came out of the tailpipes every time it took off was appalling and somewhat embarrassing.

might not be as restrictive as the vw dpf

my friend has a c350 with an awesome sounding diesel exhaust.

i however, have the GT, and no matter how hard i try, cant get a little cloud behind me, hehe, golf r diesel sounds fun, something to look forward to.

[Rob_R]

You should lay back anyway so you don't cop a facefull of dirty çrap from those dirty PD engines.

The DPF equipped CR engines can still dump soot, too - I followed a (obviously) diesel Q7 one day and the soot that came out of the tailpipes every time it took off was appalling and somewhat embarrassing.

haha! I was actually looking for and relying on the soot dump to give me an indicator how soon and hard Scotty exited the corners. Guess that's kinda cheating but I didn't know the road all that well. Another thing I learnt on the day is your car can be tooooooo!!! low for some roads!!! Hehehe!

[Mk3 AAA]

There have been some interesting innovations in trying to get an engine mor like a diesel to run petrol.

Just an article plucked from google
Making Diesel Engines Burn Gasoline | Autopia | Wired.com

Diesel can sound good, it's the current petrol 4cyl that doesn't sound particularly impressive, considering it replaced the glorious note of the R32.

[ethosguy]

Isn't performance and tractability what matters?

Maybe a noise generator is all that is needed to satisfy?

[Buller_Scott]

haha! I was actually looking for and relying on the soot dump to give me an indicator how soon and hard Scotty exited the corners. Guess that's kinda cheating but I didn't know the road all that well. Another thing I learnt on the day is your car can be tooooooo!!! low for some roads!!! Hehehe!

haha. yes. i learned the "too low" lesson - im thinking hybrid (steel bottomed + slightly shallower) oil pan mightnt be a bad idea...

and dont worry about cheating, rob - i do it all the time with josh and greg, haha! "can we go can we go can w... yep it's go time!"

p.s. you WILL be bringing the blue beastie along this weekend right, rob? should be a good cruise, fingers crossed the weather smiles upon us

[Rob_R]

haha. yes. i learned the "too low" lesson - im thinking hybrid (steel bottomed + slightly shallower) oil pan mightnt be a bad idea...

and dont worry about cheating, rob - i do it all the time with josh and greg, haha! "can we go can we go can w... yep it's go time!"

p.s. you WILL be bringing the blue beastie along this weekend right, rob? should be a good cruise, fingers crossed the weather smiles upon us

You could always bag your car except it would need to lift instead of drop. hehe!

When we last spoke I said I was coming this weekend but it all went quiet about it for a while. Between then and now an event which is hard to organise everyone and everything came together unfortunately this weekend. We leave this Friday so I'm going to miss the cruise. Wish I could be in two places at the same time!!