I miss my old 87 audi 5000 quattro with the inline 5 cylinder. Got hit by a drunk frat boy and was totalled. Did so much dumb stuff in that car on local dirt roads, and even some forestry service trails 😂
You've outdone yourself, VisioRacer! I'm an ex-Cummins employee, and you hit all the historical high spots. When I started at Cummins in 1990 the 1952 car was still on display at corporate headquarters, they were that proud of it. The effort that Cummins put forth to build a car that would allow its heavy diesel to be competitive influenced Indy car design until the end of the roadster era. The only story that surpasses Cummins 1952 effort with the diesel taking pole position is Penske's 1994 effort with the pushrod Ilmor 500i engine that won the race. Both were effectively banned by rules changes for the next year.
Ooooo. I worked on a couple Cummins at my last job. Mostly QSB4.5 and QSF2.3 or whatever the F series literage was. I loved the 4B but the F was a bit of a turd. Good motor mostly but it was picky about fuel and we clogged the injectors feeding it Jet fuel when the B series didn't care at all. And it took the OEM for the equipment a couple months to get injectors for the F motors. But they were both great to work on. Just overall designed well.
@@philtheairplanemechanic Advanced technology V12 28-liter tank engine. And then a turbocharged lean-burn natural gas engine derived from the C-series.
It is a story of amazing creativity . I have a V 504 in my garage. Not really sure where it's going. I would love to put it into a built car or small truck for towing a trailer as a car or as a light truck with four wheel drive. Not as a toy but for practical use.
Never heard about this mad endeavour. Always thought Audi TDI in LeMan was the first and only serious diesel race cars ever. We always learn something on this channel... Anyway, the fact that the car still runs today and sounds totally not like a sluggish diesel is another win for Cummins.
I've seen the 1950 car in the flesh at the Indianapolis museum. Neat! The 1952 car sounds a lot like a modern Cummins diesel, the sort of engine you would find in a big pickup. These videos always have amazing soundtracks. 😍
I would love to see a video on Isuzu Diesels someday. They (at least ones from the 70’s-00’s) are nearly indestructible, and being so durable are highly tunable, especially with forced induction. They will run until the sun runs out of hydrogen, especially with double row timing chains, iron heads, cylinder sleeves and inline Bosch mechanical injection pumps.
Very interesting video! Thanks for the information and the old film clips. Fascinating that the diesel guys get far more HP today. I like that this project was kept quiet to prevent last minute rule changes.
Lol...the sound of that thing was making my iPad vibrate - no lie! What a beautiful sound too, that entire car was beautiful. I love the long hood and the way the grille looked!
As often with race cars, they are 'rolling laboratories' for trying innovations considered or actually later used in production vehicles. For Cummins, they were based in Indiana, the Indy 500 was as now one of the biggest motor vehicle races in the world, they wanted to promote their diesel engines for use in trucks and it was successful even if failed to finish. As this video also noted, it encouraged the concept of flat or pancake diesel engines in certain applications as well as 'flat' style engines in race cars at Indy and other forms of oval racing as well as 'roadster' drive train and body designs until rear engine designs in the early to mid-1960's.
Pretty keen Cummins fan myself. For such a long time the fueling was the same principle that seems to work really effectively. That dependable workable system is where the greatness began.
@@waynescott1338 Yeah I know, I saw every single film with this car, problem is, it’s an old, optical recording, it’s very distorted... But yeah, You can clearly hear this beast revving over 4000 rpm. Sadly, no turbo noises :(
I bet you cummins could have actually won if they figured out a good way to get the turbo up higher without damageing the aerodynamic profile of the car.
There's literally an Audi commerical, I think for Quattro but it may be for their TDI's, that is based around Gandhi's quote "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
I don't understand why people wouldn't believe diesel engines would be good for endurance racing. There are usually horsepower limits which diesel engines can reach. Sure they may be heavier, but they're also more fuel efficient so you don't have to stop for fuel so much, or you can offset the weight with less fuel. They also have much flatter power curves so you can stay in max power for much longer, not to mention possibly hit peak power earlier and then just stay there. Then there's the reliability. Guess which vehicle drives for hours and hours on the road. A truck.
Well why there is not more diesel race cars? Its really not that hard build for example GT3 one,V6 4.0L Twin turbo Diesel 600Hp/800Nm! 3:02 Wait Supercharger on diesel engine?That is something new to me:)
2:18 I thought the majority of Hall Scott high horsepower truck engines were Propane or Natural Gas powered engines just like the one picture here. My friends father drove one for years hauling produce in California, he said it was the king of the road for a long time back than
I’m surprised they did come back the next year and win but I’m sure all the gasoline guys protested it right out of the competition the one thing people don’t know is how a diesel is designed to run full tilt all day and all night, outpacing gas engines with mileage and reliability 🇺🇸🐾✌️
It won/achieved, what was set as a goal. It was not meant as a racing victory. I thought it would spark some questions to convince viewers to click on the video.
@VisioRacer it achieved his goals and got new valuable information . But no indianapolis 500. Like you say the car didn't finish. And never raced again. So until today no diésel has ever won indy 500. But well you can make a video of othe car that almost won indy 500. STP Turbocar, a bearing failed 4 laps before the ending
Then you should be interested in a steam engine. Doesn't matter if the torque is at high or low revs, what matters is for how broad of an rev range it can maintain it. The M1 Abrams has a engine with about 350 nm of torque, but it does it at 30,000 RPM.
You would essentially never have to use the throttle to pull away from a spot. Fuel mileage could be astronomical or abyssmal for a motorcycle. The rear tire would be chewed up quite often with all that torque when applied But the added weight would be horrendous and the vibrations would shake your bones(even rubber mounted) If Cummins made a small displacement diesel engine, that woudl be interesting with a turbo or two slapped on top
OK... This was a technical achievement for Cummins, bit it did NOT "nearly win" Indy. If it had completed the 500 miles, the best the car would have done was probably third, and that's assuming the tires didn't come apart in a turn. Again, interesting...but you didn't have to overstate the case.
I'm sitting here wondering how much a me Frank costs? If you have to ask it's not a car you can afford to run! Beautiful looking car, very sixties futuristic. 🔥😈🔥
Torque is the only force. Large slow turning motors can acheive the same thing as a small displacement engine wound out to the nines. Torque is manipulated by the transmission. I would rather have a 11-13L diesel in my pickup than a 3.5L or 6.7L. It would litterally idle down the highway. And last 1.5 million miles
it ain't no gansta like a front midship rear tractioned I6 turbo diesel injected. wannit ganstier? slant it 85°, drive it by the left, and paint it like the Sun
this Documentary makes is look as if an American had invented the Diesel Engine - we need to mention here that it was RUDOLPH DIESEL, a German Engineer and Inventor!
