Archive for 'Diesel Engines' Category
Diesel Racers in 1952
20 March 2006Here we are making a big fuss about diesel powered racers and Tom leaves a cryptic comment and mentions Fred Agabashian. Fred raced in the Indy 500 many times but in 1952 he started from the pole position in his Cummins Diesel powered racer. He finished 27th completing 71 laps. I didn’t know that! Thanks, [...]
Diesel Powered Bobber Chopper
20 March 2006Well that didn’t take long. Right on the heels of the Audi diesel winning Sebring, Bruce wrote in with a few details of his homemade diesel powered bobber chopper.
The build started when his son began a science project on renewable fuels. When they got caught up in the idea of making their own fuel [...]
Audi Diesel Wins Sebring
19 March 2006If you were watching the race last night, you saw an Audi diesel win Sebring. The pitstops for the Audi were filled with photographers snapping pictures of the developing story. You could almost see and feel the enormous change in perception about to take place as millions of people realized the new word for performance [...]
Diesel Engines to Race LeMans
18 March 2006Over in the auto world, the LeMans 24 hour race has a long and prestigious history where manufacturers are always pushing their new engineering and designs in hopes of winning. The advertising that results from a win can be an even bigger win.
All of the car sites are talking at once about the new car [...]
Ethanol Diesel Fuel - O2Diesel
16 February 2006TheKneeslider.com - Since we cover diesel motorcycles here, I thought it might be interesting to note this ethanol diesel blend called O2Diesel. I had never heard of this and ran across it yesterday. The benefits cited on their website are:
* O2Diesel™ is a “fill and go” clean diesel technology available for centrally-fueled fleets in [...]
Thunder Star 1200 brochure in English
6 February 2006One of our readers was kind enough to draw our attention to the fact that Star Twin has made an English version of their brochure for the Thunder Star 1200 available at their website. The text is below but you can view the pdf version of the brochure by following the link.
Thanks, Anders!
Thunder Star [...]
Diesel Motorcycles - here’s a fast one
3 February 2006We write about diesel motorcycles a lot around here, there’s the Thunder Star of course, the D650A1 Bulldog now going into production, the Roush diesel ATV and we mentioned the biodiesel Royal Enfield several days ago. Performance varies all across the spectrum, but if we use the term “diesel fueled” motorcycles, we can add one [...]
Royal Enfield Biodiesel Motorcycle
28 January 2006Cruising the listings on ebay I found this 350cc diesel Royal Enfield Bullet. A company out in Colorado promoting the use of biodiesel imported the bike and use it as a demonstrator.
This is obviously no hot rod, but on the other hand, it will run on biodiesel or straight vegetable oil, pretty neat. If [...]
