Diesel vs. Gas

[MechEngg]

Re: Diesel vs. Gas

Not to harsh anyones mellow...I have a Nissan Pick up with 370 000 on it and its still running strong...but I WILL be keeping my 05 PD TDI for as long as possible. I'm not looking to have my own personal race car...just a fun fast fuel economy daily!

George we should have actually raced today up to the speed limit. I think the mods we each have are somewhat comparable right? I have a tune, downpipe and SMIC and intake, you have an upgraded turbo and tune and straight pipe. Would have been a decent comparison at least i think.

[idlandk]

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Not to harsh anyones mellow...I have a Nissan Pick up with 370 000 on it and its still running strong...but I WILL be keeping my 05 PD TDI for as long as possible. I'm not looking to have my own personal race car...just a fun fast fuel economy daily!

My dad has an 06 impala ss with 350000km haha.

[Geobmx4life]

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Not to harsh anyones mellow...I have a Nissan Pick up with 370 000 on it and its still running strong...but I WILL be keeping my 05 PD TDI for as long as possible. I'm not looking to have my own personal race car...just a fun fast fuel economy daily!

[CGDoig]

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I plan on driving mine for another 300,000 for sure. Even owning an 05 with a PD. The cost of doing any engine repair to the vehicle is peanuts compared to the cost of a newer car. The day you can show me a gasser that can damn near get me from Sundre to Victoria in one 60 litre tank and have gobs of torque to boot i'll make the switch. Until then....

[dJ]

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/person...l-cars-1147191

That link is retarded. How many gas drivers keep their car past 300,000kms? Cause I have yet to own a diesel with less than 300,000kms. My wifes Golf TDI has 550,000kms and is still running strong. My modded Jetta has just over 300,000 kms and is still running strong, my brother has a heavily modded Jetta TDI similar to mine with over 400,000 kms and is still running strong. How many gassers that are as modified as our diesels have that same km's and are still getting comparative power? None? That's because nobody keeps a gasser car past 300,000 kms, whereas most people that buy diesels to save the money, keep the car forever and put twice as many kms on their car than most gas cars.

[Danaldson]

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It will be awesome if i was octocharged haha. No i meant supercharged and turbo charged if you didn't know.

i think he knew

[kujiwara]

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Twin charged.

Twintake. Same difference right?

It will be awesome if i was octocharged haha. No i meant supercharged and turbo charged if you didn't know.

[idlandk]

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There's a reason diesels race in the 24h of Le mans and gas cars race in f1

[MechEngg]

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^^And you are strictly comparing gas mileage, not power. A gas would be ahead of the diesel at X time because of the power, the diesel would run for X time longer because of the fuel economy. We are not disputing fuel economy here, we all know that the diesel wins that.

[Gamman]

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I haven't read this whole post but I will offer an experience. I was in Germany going to the ring. I did sustained 200+ kph average going there, got Upton 240, if I recall correctly, from Dusseldorf area. Averaged 8_9L/100km. No chance in hell would a gasanything get close. It was an a3 with 2.0 td. North America only had the 1.9 if I recall. It was in 2007, so may have been an 05, or 06, ?? I wouldn't road race one, but maybe on a short course. If I hadn't been up to my eyes in superchargers, I would do a diesel, but Meyers scares me on the new ones. My city golf on the track never got past 150 even supercharged, so to compare wouldn't be right, but my Subaru 265, 2.5l with a chip barely saw 195 @ race city, and I would get a tank over 180km. Apple and banana comparison, but the road course is opening in Edmonton, why not have a face off, d vs gas. Full tank, follow the leader, see who ends up with a half tank at end.pdf night,vs empty tank. I will volunteer as a driver! My s/c city golf would be way too slow.

[boostedmk4]

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Twin charged.

Twintake. Same difference right?

[kujiwara]

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The twin charged 1.4 TFSI in the scirocco is pretty fast and light on gas, drove it in back in China last summer and torque was all over my butt, the emissions are pretty low at least according to VW.

[turbomeyers]

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its in my shop now for moar power . . but thats ALH ftw ... but 11 years ago things were diferent, now i am talking about now .

[boostedmk4]

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Hey Chris. Remember smoke u?

Diesel ftw

[turbomeyers]

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It would actually be worse as the distance driven here is greater (requiring more of the expensive maintenance further skewing the results in favor of the gas ). And the cold weather and sh*tty fuel would make the diesel ownership more expensive.