Diesel carnage
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airbrakes

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10,714 posts

191 months

Monday 23rd September 2013
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Stumbled across this earlier and thought you lot might be interested in a "morbid curiosity" kind of way...

What happens when big diesels are tuned to within an ince of their life... and cry enough!
http://www.dieselpowermag.com/features/1310_carnag...

SpaceGhost

121 posts

158 months

Monday 23rd September 2013
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Snobbery aside, nowt wrong with a big diesel. Some of those tractors are running 10,000 BHP plus in the modified class. Show me a petrol that can develop the same torque figures... Highest powered motorsport in the world.

airbrakes

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10,714 posts

191 months

Monday 23rd September 2013
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oh, I wasnt being snobbish at all! I'm in awe of the performance figures of some of those huge pickups running insane engines

fjord

2,143 posts

168 months

Monday 23rd September 2013
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I bet a 335d can do all that and more.

Scuffers

20,887 posts

305 months

Monday 23rd September 2013
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SpaceGhost said:
Snobbery aside, nowt wrong with a big diesel. Some of those tractors are running 10,000 BHP plus in the modified class. Show me a petrol that can develop the same torque figures... Highest powered motorsport in the world.
shame that quite a few of them are running alcohol rather than diesel...

airbrakes

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Monday 23rd September 2013
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fjord said:
I bet a 335d can do all that and more.
remapped, of course? hehe

fjord

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168 months

Monday 23rd September 2013
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airbrakes said:
remapped, of course? hehe
Dont forget the winter tyres!