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Around £40,000.... well worth it... Plank with more money than common sense... but fair enough Link find...
could a diesel run petrol if you put in spark plugs?
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could a diesel run petrol if you put in spark plugs?
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remember that diesel also acts as a lubricant so running one on petrol would mix it with the engine oil and in turn perish every seal within the engine. so every seal would need to be replaced aswell as mega compresion drop petrol injectors and timing and new piston design. plus a throttle body as said as diesels done have them so yes it can be done.... cost. more than the car.
The Diesel only acts as a lubricant to the inline pumps.
It does not intentionally mix with the engine oil.
It does find its way into the sump, just as Petrol does.
Petrol dilution of engine oil is the prime reason for an oil change.
Plank with more money than common sense... but fair enough Link find...
I didn't say it was low cost.
Only that it was possible and had already been done.
He was going to race with it.
Some of you clearly have no idea how much race engines cost, but for the power and torque combined with the reliability it was not expensive at all.
Unfortunately the championship banned converting a Diesel engine to Petrol.
That's me told then (not), sso ssorry.
I have read the thread properly and consider that it's still relevant to diesel engines running petrol. So yes, you are being pedantic.
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out of curiosity why did they ban these conversions?
I expect it was the influence of a small number of people that had spent far more to get less power and torque from normal Petrol engines.
It would have been very reliable and easy to turn the power up or down depending on the competition on that day.
Probably broke homologation rules too.
Not relevant for the championship it was to be used in.
Now you have my attention - and at the risk of being told I'm off thread by FFoxy - I have to ask what was it being used for?
BTW have competed myself and have met the type of people of which you speak; the sort that think because they have chucked squilions of pounds at the sport they have a God given right to win..:tosser:
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Gotta love them people...
type who you know cheat (adding hidden ballast)
but if get beaten will try get people disqualified by complaining about any little thing
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there at a lot of people in motorsports who think money makes up for lack of skills
Absolutely! just like taste ,money can't buy skill. But as a good friend once said to me.. There's only one sure way to make a small fortune out of Motorsport......
Start with a large one.
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