Diesel Split

Sunroof53 · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject: Diesel Split

Interesting article for you

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Seb67 · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject:

http://www.ltv-vwc.org.uk/wheelspin/ws_aug-sept-2003/diesel-beetle.html
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David · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject:

Cool find! I hadn't seen or heard of this... is this mentioned or covered in more detail in "Birth of the Beetle'?
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Hebster52 · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:08 am Post subject:

I've seen this article before.
I think it was last year when Subaru launched "The first Boxer diesel in the world..."

Yeah, right... Rolling Eyes

VW have always been first.. Wink

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Sepi · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:01 am Post subject:

The history could be different if Bosch had this pump 30 years earlier

johnshenry · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:16 am Post subject:

Keith · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject:

I'm actually surprised VW didn't go to production with this. Especially with Europes love for diesel. What kind of fuel mileage is that getting?
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rainierdeklark · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:07 pm Post subject:

outdoorplay · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject:

I would think a diesel bug would be sweet, and just think of MPG you would get?????? Laughing

Sunroof53 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject:

The article is from a 1991 VW motoring.Hope you can read the scan and that your eyes dont hurt too much Wink

Hebster52 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. Wondering how much work would be involved to make one...? Wink

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mb · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:14 am Post subject:

http://superbeetle.kaeferpiloten.de/bilder/index.php?folder=/technik/berichte/dieselkaefer
then click on "Originalbild (--x--px, xxxx kB)"
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mandraks · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:30 pm Post subject:

posted pictures from auto bild article

i like it

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Blue Baron · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:45 pm Post subject:

I imagine weight would have been the primary objection. A diesel engine is a heavy lump.

A lot of engineering and use of light-weight material was required to get the rear-to-front weight break below the 60/40 ratio deemed necessary for a (relatively) safe handling rear-engined car. Once that 60 percent rear weight bias was surpassed the cars would become dangerously tail happy. (Chevrolet learned that lesson the hard way.)
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mandraks · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:00 pm Post subject:

Jacks · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject:

I think that keeping the heads sealed to the cyls would be the major hurtle. Perhaps a giant "C" clamp, with a tightening schedule could help. Wink

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Zwitterkafer · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:48 pm Post subject:

Excuse my ignorance, but what is that perforated metal can on the radio blockoff plate, with the glowing element inside? I've seen that before on old truck dashboards too.....is it an extra element that shows how the glowplugs are heating up, before start-up?
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mandraks · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:15 am Post subject:

tisius · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:54 pm Post subject:

a diesel beetle..... weird! Wink

the 25hp beetle in stock zwitter configuration was already not a speed record breaker Mad

... imagine a diesel from back then (did they make flintstone holes in the floor to help the acceleration/topspeed? Laughing

).
Plus a diesel engine is more expensive to produce (must resist much higher temperatures), so I see why the plan didn't make it past the prototype stage. Very interesting though, that VW tried anyway.
And obviously they didn't have a regulatory smog emission test back then, cause that tailpipe looks like a smokescreen feature from a James Bond car to me! Wink

Haha i want one to smoke out the neighbors Twisted Evil

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ChrisRheinschild · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:34 am Post subject: diesel VW

There was mention in Hot VWs letter section some months ago of a currently manufactured and available Kohler small 35? hp diesel. I looked on the Kohler site. There were several application adapters and the weight seemed within reason. This may be a feasible installation.


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