Diesel to compete 24 hrs Le Mans

[transio]

Sweet. I can't wait to see a racing team adopt an electric vehicle for one of these races! That would be truly revolutionary!

[thedutchguy]

It's not new, last year, BMW won SPA 24hrs in the touring car class with a 3 series diesel. Because it uses less fuell, they don't have to make may pitt stops.
Last week I saw something truly spectaculair.
A company named star twin here in holland has taken the engine of a VW Lupo tdi.
They made a new crankcase and gearbox for it and fitted in a.....................Motorcycle!.
By icreasing the boost pressure to 2 bar the original engine now gives 120hp.
It outperformes a ducati on the track and uses 1 liter diesel every 40 km's.(that's about 112mpg)



What do you think about that?

There are serious plans to take this bike with the aid of VW into production.

[Joe_Black]

We've got a diesel bike here that's based on the Kawasaki KLR-650, but it's more of a go-anywhere-forever (102 MPG!) bike than a performance machine.

http://www.m1030.com/



Thanks for posting the diesel sportbike!

[Joe_Black]

Sweet. I can't wait to see a racing team adopt an electric vehicle for one of these races! That would be truly revolutionary!

Yeah, that would be awesome. The motor technology is there, just the energy density of the batteries is the only holdback. Or a clean on-board generation technology. Like Mr. Fusion!