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Mon 20 Feb 2006 19:32

Diesel Engine Technology - mss1tw

While I was out for a walk earlier, I heard the forums favourite, a Mondeo TDCi accelerating toward me. It didn't sound that bad actually, and had quite a nice turbo whine.

Which got me thinking, I wonder where diesels could/would be today without forced induction, having seen what modern N.A. petrol engines are capable of. 75bhp a few years ago was 1.6 territory, now you can get that from a 1.2 16v!

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Mon 20 Feb 2006 21:01

Diesel Engine Technology - Ben79

Well the 1990 1.6 carb Peugeot 405 managed 90bhp. That was over 15 years ago.

Today you get more like 110 horses.

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