Nissan Club - Hennops - 18th Jan 2014

[ricster]

ha ha.... hmmmmm.... Alex and Ian..... the challenge is on hey?
ja... tease my sweet Iron Maiden..... she's going to fart out a big black smoke cloud over you petrolheads....

[IanT]

Hee Hee

[Schalk]

I will also be joining this event. looking forward to it

[Kagiso II]

maybe not the right forum to ask -- but who of you guys have also locked [locked .. NOT logged] on to the new Nissan OffRoad club forum ?

[Jorrie]

Affirmative.

[martyn]

Back in Hanover so will miss this one. Come on guys organise something for the last weekend of the upcoming months Please .

[Grant]

Tentative for Papa Smurf and Smurfette.


Ian Alex. Once again, real truck don't have spark plugs.

[Alex Roux]

Hey Diesel heads

Based on Cedric's comment:

...... the rocky side is a pleasure in the diesel..... especially in a 4.2 cause you don't even have your foot on the throttle up the loose stone parts... it idles up like a an Iron Maiden .....

I was actually just really interested in the answer: At what angle do you need to start applying the throttle in a 4.2D?
With my ZD30, a smaller flywheel I guess, it was not that much. So I do no miss it with my Lexus.

[ricster]

Alex, I don't know what angle would be max, but even a small angle over the rocks, the diesels do seem to keep a more consistent rev, where as the petrol ( and I remember this with my 3.0 Sani ) the revs were up-down-up-down, as you had to feather the throttle over a bigger rock, then foot off a bit to slow down. So your rev range is probably between lowest 500 up to say 12 - 1300 rpm. On the old 4.2, the flywheel is so big that the revs vary between 700 and 1000, keeping a more steady speed. Obviously an auto box on a petrol Patrol or any vehicle will do the same to a degree, but the auto box will also allow the vehicle to come to a stop up against a rock, to which you need to depress the accelerator further to get it over. Once over you have to take foot off quickly to slow you down ( like getting whiplash.... )

But the fact is that in soft sand you petrol guys eat us diesels for breakfast..... but on the rocks diesels are just made for that terrain, and kick butt.

[Jorrie]

Cedric
Nice darts Bud.