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JCB Dieselmax World Land Speed Record 328 mph

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UPDATE: They just raised it again. They broke their own 1 day old record and set a new mark at 350.092mph! Wow! Following up on yesterday's post, the JCB Dieselmax diesel powered streamliner set a new FIA world land speed record for diesel powered racers of 328.767mph. Just last week they set a new Bonneville record of 317 mph with two runs over two days. Today they made two … [Read more...]

JCB Dieselmax goes 317mph at Bonneville

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In another example of diesel engines moving into the performance arena, the JCB Dieselmax streamliner made two runs at Bonneville, 308mph last Thursday and 325mph on Friday for a two run average of 317mph making it the fastest diesel ever to run at Bonneville. They will be refitting the streamliner with the 750bhp JCB444-LSR “record” engines for the more demanding FIA … [Read more...]

Royal Enfield Diesel Conversion

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A little while back we mentioned a Royal Enfield for sale that was set up to run on biodiesel. Here's a very well laid out website by Charles Altmann who shows you how to take a Royal Enfield Bullet, and after removing the gasoline engine, install a 406cc, single cylinder, direct injection Yanmar diesel or Yanmar clone in it's place. He has a lot of photos and even has diagrams … [Read more...]

Neander Turbo Diesel Motorcycle

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With diesel engines gaining more of the spotlight, let's take a closer look at another diesel, the Neander turbo diesel motorcycle. A number of readers have pointed out this bike before which has been around for a while in prototype form but their intention is to begin production in limited quantities later this year so what do they have to offer? Neander Motors looked at … [Read more...]

Diesel Racers in 1952

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Here 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, Tom. photo: Indy500.com … [Read more...]

Diesel Powered Bobber Chopper

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Well 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 the next logical step was building a bike to try it out. They started … [Read more...]