[Vwdiesel] Help - messed in the head...

[Shawn Wright]

On 16 Apr 2005 at 7:34, Area31 Research Facility <stephensrw at stn.net> wrote:

> I've yet to see a VW diesel engine head off.  Interesting!  With no chambers you
> wouldn't have to worry about cc'ing the heads for compression matching between
> cylinders as in a hi-perf* gas engine build.. ;)
> 
> *BTW, for the record, my view of what constitutes high performance has
> changed significantly in recent years.  I'm now of the opinion that having
> an engine that will run on alternate fuel sources (no dependance on
> expensive, vanishing gasoline, propane or natural gas petroleum products
> controlled by The Man) for many tens of thousands of hours between rebuilds on
> small fractions of a litre per kW Hour represents "hi-performance"!

Rob,

Just curious what kind of efficiency rate you expect with your VW-d genset? How 
many fractions of a litre per kW hr?
 
Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D 
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy