Building a Racer to beat a Honda CRX - Options?

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

Just for shits and giggles, in the American LeMans Series the diesels (Audi 
V12 is the only diesel currently running) are allowed 5.5L displacement vs. 
3.6L for a gas engine. Turbo boost is ~28.5 psi, vs, 9 psi for the gas 
engine and lastly the inlet restrictor size is 2ea 39.9mm vs. 2 ea 32.4mm 
which equates to 50% more air at peak flow for the diesel.
That's what it takes to make a diesel match a gas engine's performance as 
far as HP. 50% more displacement, 50% more airflow and almost twice the 
absolute boost pressure!
A very interesting feature of the Audi diesel with Bosch injection utilizing 
very quick acting piezo injectors is that the engine control actually pulses 
the injectors during the power stroke several times instead of just one 
squirt. The purpose is to limit peak cylinder pressure and therefor peak 
torque to a level that the tranmission can handle over a 24 hour race.
Anyway, just illustrates that perhaps a diesel in the class Cory is 
considering is a bit silly.
Dan

From: "Brian Haygood" <haygood@myway.com>

Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Building a Racer to beat a Honda CRX - Options?>
>
> Actually, I have to agree with Brian here.  That does sound silly.
>
> From: Brian McGarvey [mailto: bmcgarvey@gmail.com]
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:46:14 -0500
>
> Subject: Re: Building a Racer to beat a Honda CRX - Options?
>
> this might seem silly.. but how about a diesel