Moody Diesel

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This Car was turbo charged and had tuned headers on it,hense it was noisy. but it wasn't slow as a turtle.Ralph Moody was not an amature he was a professional auto builder who was employed by Ford to run and develope thier Racing efforts,the GT40 that AJ Foyt won LeMans with was prepared by Holman-Moody.he was a class act

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one last thing,the car was built in a modern professional race car shop.a shop with flow benches and engine dyno's.Ralph wasn't interested in getting rich,he all ready was rich.Ralph was a patriot and wanted to help us get through the oil crisis.in building the car he used tricks learned on the race track pertaining to fuel mileage.with todays modern exhaust mufflers,all most straight through but quiet,I think it would pass the noise standards.

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The Question still is,where is this car or the build sheets for it.and what could be learned from it. I think it is so sad that it wasn't turned over to a magazine for testing.it just dissapeared over night all most,a car that got 85 mph would of been talked about for years.especially one that wasn't a stripped down bare bones one like the Shell mileage cars. this car had a turbo and from what I remember air conditioning.but it only got around 70 mpg with air on on the freeway.I remember Moody saying that on a tv news interview

[Frank Lee]

That "85 mpg" figure wasn't rigorously tested so don't get too hung up on it. Modern turbodiesels are probably just as good.

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

That "85 mpg" figure wasn't rigorously tested so don't get too hung up on it. Modern turbodiesels are probably just as good.

Not good enough for 85mpg as an average.

[Frank Lee]

Look at where the "85" figure came from- one, one way run of about 40 miles.

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also when Moody built this car,he didn't have to worry about "bean counters"inter office politics,or stepping on somebody's toes. did Detroit use the best head design? no, it was a trade off.did they use the best bearings that were lower in friction? no, they used standard bearings.Moody was used to using the best that was available on the race cars. I have no doubt he carried that over into the Moody Diesel.

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look up Holman-Moody it will give you an idea who Ralph Moody was

[Frank Lee]

http://www.byronwine.com/files/200%2...%20carb%20.pdf

I see the source of your inspiration Louis.

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Sven7

Edit: Here are some links that would have helped substantiate your first post.

Time Magazine, 1979 5 14

This claims 0-60 in 17 seconds and a top speed of 105mph. Arragonis' Toyota Aygo would be a good match in a drag race.

How very dare you My Aygo does 0-60 in under 11 seconds according to independant car magazines, 14 seconds according to Toyota - who want to sell it as slow to insurance companies. As an aside a year's insurance here for a 17 year old is £2000, thats $3000 - for 12 months

As for the idea that the Arabs bought this car or got it outlawed, sorry its pish. In the late 70s OPEC panicked because of the recession in the western world and thought they had "killed the golden goose" so they dropped prices.

Also they wanted the US to protect them against the likes of Iran "exporting the revolution", so when Reagan in the 80s wanted low oil prices to starve the USSR of cash, OPEC opened the taps.

This deserves to be with the unicorns, together with the 100MPG carb.