[Vwdiesel] Rabbit Shift Points

Bryan K. Walton bryankwalton at machlink.com
Wed Mar 14 08:47:38 EDT 2007


On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:42:31PM -0600, James Hansen wrote:

> The optimum shift point in a diesel, like I said, is pretty broad due to 
> the nature of efficiency of the diesel engine- pumping losses aside, it 
> uses less fuel per stroke at higher rpm, more at lower, when load is 
> constant, to achieve almost the same fuel used over time.

Thanks James, very interesting.

Cheers,
Bryan


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