fastest starting car
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This might be a strange but after looking at some u tube videos I wonder what the fastest starting car is? For example some of the hyper cars take a while I guess because of fuel pumps etc... although my Honda jazz (don't judge) is almost instant, so do modern cars especially with stop start start quicker and is there a difference between petrol diesel ?
northwest monkey said:
Diesel from cold tends to be a bit slower as you have to wait for the glow plugs to warm up. I've always found smaller engined cars to be quicker to start - presumably because they're easier to crank over?
Modern diesels don't tend to need glow plugs for cold starting unless the temperature is well down towards zero (or below). My 320d's starting time is the same from hot, or cold providing the ambient temperature is over about 3°C. Below this, with a cold engine, you will see a preheating message in the display. That said, it still doesn't start quick enough for the Stop/Start system to be usable. Glow plugs are as much used post start for emissions control as they are for getting the engine started nowadays.
Limpet said:
northwest monkey said:
Diesel from cold tends to be a bit slower as you have to wait for the glow plugs to warm up. I've always found smaller engined cars to be quicker to start - presumably because they're easier to crank over?
Modern diesels don't tend to need glow plugs for cold starting unless the temperature is well down towards zero (or below). My 320d's starting time is the same from hot, or cold providing the ambient temperature is over about 3°C. Below this, with a cold engine, you will see a preheating message in the display. That said, it still doesn't start quick enough for the Stop/Start system to be usable. Glow plugs are as much used post start for emissions control as they are for getting the engine started nowadays.
What I hate is engines like our VW Caddy van, it starts the moment you turn the key. BUT if you don't keep the key turned until it's done about 2revs the bloody thing cuts out again. The starter isn't still engaged or anything, I think it's just a delay in the ECU noticing the engine has fired.
Back in my youth, before mandatory seat belts, & a pile of other paraphernalia that has destroyed grassroots motor racing, we still had Le Mans start sports car races. I was just lucky to do some of the last few of them.
My Morgan +4 with it's low cut doors, & high tunnel & chassis rail was perfect to jump into, & you landed with one foot on the accelerator, & the other on the clutch pedal. It's Ferguson tractor/Vanguard/TR3 engine started instantly, much quicker than any other race tuned engine I have known.
I was always in the lead at the first corner. Hell in 1964 I made it all the way to the top of the mountain at Bathurst, before a Lotus 19B went howling past. That Morgan was the fastest starting car I've ever owned.
My Morgan +4 with it's low cut doors, & high tunnel & chassis rail was perfect to jump into, & you landed with one foot on the accelerator, & the other on the clutch pedal. It's Ferguson tractor/Vanguard/TR3 engine started instantly, much quicker than any other race tuned engine I have known.
I was always in the lead at the first corner. Hell in 1964 I made it all the way to the top of the mountain at Bathurst, before a Lotus 19B went howling past. That Morgan was the fastest starting car I've ever owned.
My Triumph would go from starting almost instantly when cold, to taking a minute of cranking when left for 20 mins or so...
In fact one day, when I had parked it directly in the sun, it wasn't having any of it so I left it at the shops and walked home, then walked back to pick it up when I knew it would have cooled down.
In fact one day, when I had parked it directly in the sun, it wasn't having any of it so I left it at the shops and walked home, then walked back to pick it up when I knew it would have cooled down.
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