Faster than a TJ .... I don't think you could set the bar any lower ......
Unless you have an LS in it,
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Unless you have an LS in it,
PFFFFFT...
Amateurs...
Mercedes-Benz 220D 0-60 at a blistering 23.3 seconds!
My old 77 300D was 0-60 in 24.8 seconds but it could pull a horse trailer with 2 horses to the show.
Well, I've said it before, but the best thing about putting an LS in a TJ is you don't have to upgrade the Dana 35...
A naturally aspirated 300D should be far faster than a 220D - but maybe the webpage I got the number from was wrong. *shrug*
That was a 5 cylinder. I did the test, flooring it through the parking lot before school. We put 180K on that car and the people we sold it too made it into the 300's as far as we know. We also had a 1980 240D (non turbo) and that was faster as well.
Then it must have had a problem, a 300 has noticeably more power than a 240.
Ok, you made me get out the book, "Mercedes-Benz Diesel Automobiles".
Factory acceleration specs are in km/hr, I'll leave the math as an exercise for the reader:
220D 28.1
240D 24.6 to 22.0 depending on year and transmission.
300D 20.6 for the W115 car, and 17.8 to 19.9 W123 car, depending on year and transmission.
300SD 12.7 for the W116 car, 15.0 for the W126 car (mine)
The 300D turbo (W123) isn't listed.
maybe it was the home heating oil he used to fill the tank with at times...lol
That's just dyed (not road taxed) diesel fuel. They cracked down on running that on the roads here 20 some years ago and started writing people big tickets trying to make a point.
Oh and a point they do make!!!
In Idaho it's $250 for 1st offense, $500 2nd, and $1000 for each subsequent incident.
After the state gets done putting the screws to your pocket book they turn you in to the IRS. IRS can charge you $1,000 or $10 per gallon, whichever is greater. Some where I heard that the IRS doesn't just fine you for the fuel that's in your tank. They supposedly estimate the amount of fuel you would use in a year (don't ask me how) and charge you for that amount of fuel.
For reference...
Idaho charges $0.25 per gallon tax on highway diesel and the Feds charge $0.245 per gallon...
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I had to look it up, I'm not really sure how the math worked out, but back when they started cracking down I was hearing of guys with $10,000 fines. I remember reading about one "sting" operation where the state boys set up a check point about a mile down the road from a farm sale, and pretty much everyone who bought and drove a truck from that sale got a ticket, which I still think is some horseshit. All it takes is one gallon of dyed mixed into 99 gallons of taxed and the whole tank is contaminated and "illegal".
Here's our current law; https://www.ncdor.gov/documents/notice/dyeddieseluse-guidegeneralpdf/open
Penalties for Misuse
It is unlawful to use dyed diesel fuel in a vehicle that is licensed (or required to be licensed) for highway use. A person who violates this law is guilty of a Class 1Misdemeanor and liable for a civil penalty of the greater of $1,000 or five times the amount of motor fuel tax payable on the fuel in the supply tank. The penalty is in addition to any motor fuel tax assessed.
A person who dispenses non-tax-paid motor fuel into the supply tank of a highway vehicle or who allows the non-tax-paid motor fuel to be dispensed into a supply tank of a highway vehicle is subject to a civil penalty of $250 per occurrence.
Failure to pay the penalty is grounds to withhold or revoke the registration plate of the motor vehicle into which the non-tax paid motor fuel was dispensed.
A person who refuses to allow the taking of a motor fuel sample is subject to a civil penalty of $1,000.
Record-keeping Requirements: All records must be maintained for three years.
Users: those persons with licensed highway vehicles in excess of 10,000 pounds having no bulk storage must maintain the following records:
All fuel receipts and invoices including fuel purchased for highway and off-highway use, both tax-paid and non-tax-paid fuel.
Quarterly odometer readings
Purchase and disposition dates of vehicle; with beginning and ending odometer readings.
List of current vehicles by registered gross weight
A list of motor carrier decals received and applied to vehicles.
This reminds me of how me and the boys drove to and from high skool, or at least how we thought we were driving. It might explain why some of us kept finding "op-stackles" in our path when we runnoft da road. 
Man that looks and sounds like fun.
Man that looks and sounds like fun.
speeding_infraction
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This reminds me of how me and the boys drove to and from high skool, or at least how we thought we were driving. It might explain why some of us kept finding "op-stackles" in our path when we runnoft da road.
Man that looks and sounds like fun.
There's a video somewhere of a 69 challenger with a blown hemi racing a bunch of sports cars on a race track. Moral of the story: raw power can, in fact, make up for the worlds shittiest handling.
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Here in British Columbia, bulk sales 'furnace oil' is clear diesel fuel. When at the Chevron bulk plant, I load two 135 Imperial gallon fuel tanks with 'furnace oil' and a few gallons of that fuel is used to heat my shop . . . you can guess where the remainder goes.
Tax upon tax upon tax . . . . Cummins can't tell the difference.
Here in British Columbia, bulk sales 'furnace oil' is clear diesel fuel. When at the Chevron bulk plant, I load two 135 Imperial gallon fuel tanks with 'furnace oil' and a few gallons of that fuel is used to heat my shop . . . you can guess where the remainder goes.
Tax upon tax upon tax . . . . Cummins can't tell the difference.
The last time I got bulk Diesel delivered to my fuel truck when I was on a Fire in CA it was as clear as gasoline. not even a greenish tint to it. My guess is because of EPA and CA emissions regulations it all has to be the same low sulfur diesel regardless of what it goes into so they don't bother adding any die to any of it. I actually had to ask the bulk driver if he didn't bring me kerosene by accident. He said nope heating oil, on road, and off road diesel is all the same. I guess CA doesn't care if you don't pay road tax on diesel???
my dad would fill our backyard diesel tank with heating oil all the time...500 gal tank. I actually never went to a gas/diesel station until I was 21 YO.
California probably makes you pay a road tax for heating oil. They probably justify that by saying the delivery truck travels on the road.
California probably makes you pay a road tax for heating oil. They probably justify that by saying the delivery truck travels on the road.
Good point!!!
California probably makes you pay a road tax for heating oil. They probably justify that since the delivery truck travels on the road.
Couldn't speak to heating oil, but they should be taxing Tesla and other EV owners additionally for the excess weight they're carrying above a comparable ICE vehicle, they do more damage to the roads.
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