S1 205GTi gets beaten by a Falcon
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Diesel engines have the glow plugs to promote the fogging of the diesel mixture. This in turn helps to promote the detonation.
I am speculating that the warm fuel would fog better regardless if it is the diesel or petrol.
I am speculating that the warm fuel would fog better regardless if it is the diesel or petrol.
Peter re: the inlet length for the tuned eng. question as posted above. I played around with the length on mine made it 50 cm from butterfly to pod filter. I measured the 306 as well and the was more like 90 cm. The longer it is the harder it is for the eng. to suck on.
I devised a simple experiment to prove this:
if you get the neighbours garden hose and try to breathe through it at full length then chop it back to 4 meters and the respiration process is simpler.
I devised a simple experiment to prove this:
if you get the neighbours garden hose and try to breathe through it at full length then chop it back to 4 meters and the respiration process is simpler.
Diesel engines are different to petrol and the equivalent of octane for diesel is cetane.
One of the reasons that diesels last so long is that they are so solidly constructed to handle such high compression ratios and operate at lower revs.
Would have to aggree entirely with pugjet's last comment. I live in galdesville and i'm only now fully enjoying the fruits of my 205GTi. I have had a 2.4 holden rodeo keep up with me down towards the cop shop in gladesville heading towards the city. Pretty abizmal!! eh??, but only after i'd hit 50 and realised he was racing me. However i've ripped a turbo exa up until around the 100km\h mark and then his turbo power ****ed on me!!...i want a turbo!
Don't worry too much thought, you have to ask yourself the question..."Am i really going as hard as i can"...as the rodeo kept up with me when i was still in the preserve my car mode. this is when you dont quite thump the pedal on the floor....which is the stage that i am at now
If you don't thump it to the floor i thouroughly reccommend it, as the 205's little 8v is a very different devil with 85% throttle in comparrision to fully open!!!.
mine will chomp anything soon. I'm also thinking of peterT's head mod to raise the comp. ratio. then a 276 degree cam will be dropped in. along with a 4 to 1 extraction system!!! Fat. Pretty simiar to whoever owns a Greeen 205GTi! classic...8/30 to be exact. Being serviced by paul in gladesville!!! sick bloke. very entused with peugeot's
The problem with this experiment is that a human can't suck hard or long enough to experience inertial ramming. Lucky you can't otherwise you're lungs might burst with the extra air being rammed in.
Basically at high revs, it's easier for an engine to breath through a short pipe as you said, but at lower revs the inertial and acoustic ramming effects of a long induction tract pay off.
Dave
Not likely... or at least not in my view.
The other cars mentioned are rear wheel drive, right?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I think the 205 is already a classic, the first of the hot hatch.
In the UK where a 5 year old car is a "rusty old car", the 205 GTI has been considered a classic for a long while. Anyone who reads the British classic car mags would know this.
Dave
Dave
You really should avoid racing on public roads...
It's illegal for a start, and it leads to dangerous situations.
For my money, I'd simply prefer to drive right away from anyone who wants to race.
It's illegal for a start, and it leads to dangerous situations.
For my money, I'd simply prefer to drive right away from anyone who wants to race.
Leave it for the race track, which makes the 205 stand out by far!
There's the very basis of the thread... "205 gets beaten by..."Originally posted by Luca
<strong>Where'd this racing on the roads thing come from???
And then there's this post:
Does that make it clear?