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jpower
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:26 am    Post subject: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

whats wrong with them !! i want information cause i havent heard shit about them and im curious
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Josh
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:30 am    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

They are slow and there purpose was to get good km/l
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sime
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:35 am    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

they have lots of torque rather than power and their gearboxes and diffs are stronger than standard petrol gemini ones.
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20PSI TX
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Joined: 23 Oct 2001
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 1:04 am    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

I want one. I just wanna run stupid amounts of boost through it.
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HighTeK
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Joined: 04 Jul 2002
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:19 pm    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

Put a Diesel diff in your petorol Gemi, Ratio is better, go quiker.

A diesel Gem can go from Melb to Sydney on 1 tank of fuel!!

The most fuel efficent car of the day.

I was told a while back that the G Series motors were all designed to run on diesel??
Does any1 know??
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Frederick Stienheld
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Joined: 05 Sep 2002
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 8:07 pm    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

> I was told a while back that the G Series motors were all designed to run on diesel??
> Does any1 know??

Ok, thats the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard. Deisel engines are nothing like petrol engines.
They don't have spark plugs, they use injection and they run insane amounts of compression just to name a few big differences.
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DrIFtA
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 9:05 pm    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

The engine fitted to the deisel variants was totally different from the normal 'G'Series engines. It was coded the '4FB1', similar to the '4FC1' as fitted to the Holden Shuttle from '82 - '86.
The design of a deisel engine is different in many, many aspects compared to a petrol engine.
The deisel Gemini was introduced in the TE range and was carried through to the TG. It had an astonishingly mind numbing 40kw, was 1800cc (1.8 litre) in capacity, compression was set at a deisel friendly 21.0:1, they had a revised set of gearbox ratios and slightly stronger internals to meet the deisels needs, and a different diff ratio of 3.58:1 also to compensate for the engines characteristics.
There is a site somewhere on the web that caters for the deisel enthusiast, i wouldn't have the foggiest what the address is, but with a little google searching you should find it.

Live Fast, Die Sideways...
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elky
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:57 pm    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

i know a old bloke who was doing work on his diesel te ( added a turbo, intercooler etc) it had a mountain of torque and could fry 1st and 2nd! enough to scare lots of "faster" cars. only revved to 5 but
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Frederick Stienheld
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:51 pm    Post subject: Re: why do people hate diesel geminis Reply with quote

yah, turbo diesels are LOADED with torque Smile
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Steam Powered Gemini
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Joined: 10 Jun 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:05 pm    Post subject: WHY DIESEL? Reply with quote

when you could have STEAM!!!!

yeah!!!

go the steam powered gemi!!!

im gonna get the plates - SPGEM! (Steam Powered Gemini)
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TGCOUPgirl
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Joined: 17 May 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 2:18 pm    Post subject: Re: WHY DIESEL? Reply with quote

diesel smells bad
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TuFf
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Joined: 17 Sep 2002
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:08 pm    Post subject: Re: WHY DIESEL? Reply with quote

yeah but unleaded smells like a really bad fart..
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