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Old 11-23-2010, 06:46 PM   #25 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech View Post
A well designed modern diesel can be quieter and smoother than a similar gasser. Noise and vibration are inherant to older manual pumped diesels, but not a good quality commonrail injected diesel.

Then again a gasser running at nearly no throttle would be very efficient I suspect.
I was referring to a diesel with the equivalent power to a 150cc 4-stroke. Those Kubota rattleboxes come to mind.
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