Diesel swap: help needed

[Chopper]

I know a guy who has an 86 Trooper Turbo D for sale in MN...almost 47 HP & high twenties for mileage. Not the fastest vehicle on the planet, but still chuggin' along with well over 100,000 miles on the clock.
Yes, it's the little red Trooper that could & for $900.00, it's yours.

He said 47 hp. Come get some!!!

[Ldub]

He said 47 hp. Come get some!!!

LOL...I'm glad SOMEBODY got it, it never occured to me that an engine churning out 50- HP would even be considered...

[etlsport]

haha.. i just assumed you meant 147

[Joe_Black]

It's all about the TORQUE baby!

When you get into diesels it's a whole different language and mindset. Our new Mk5 Jetta is actually a mid-size car now, quite roomy and a bit on the hefty side, but the 1.9L diesel it has churns out only about 100HP and it scoots like nobody's business. Almost 200 pounds of torque make it happen. Glad I didn't get a red one! Think about it though, that's almost as much torque as our VX but at half the weight.

Best part of course was averaging 49 MPG from this last tank.

A local friend and Golf TDI owner met with me today about pooling our time and resources to get a biodiesel processor assembled. We've both been accumulating components and information for several years so have just about everything we need. I wasn't ever in a rush before as my plan is to grow the source oil where he's more interested in using waste vegetable oil (WVO), but if he'll collect it I'll process it. My older Mercedes will run on straight vegetable oil (SVO) but the newer diesel have to have biodiesel, and we both have PD TDI engines which have even tighter tolerances than previous TDI engines and also run higher fuel pressures.

[Rogue]

Here is a nice place to start....

http://www.4btswaps.com/forum/index.php

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[alanbradley]

It's all about the TORQUE baby!

When you get into diesels it's a whole different language and mindset. Our new Mk5 Jetta is actually a mid-size car now, quite roomy and a bit on the hefty side, but the 1.9L diesel it has churns out only about 100HP and it scoots like nobody's business. Almost 200 pounds of torque make it happen. Glad I didn't get a red one! Think about it though, that's almost as much torque as our VX but at half the weight.

Best part of course was averaging 49 MPG from this last tank.

Please don't post these sort of things - as someone who's just agreed to trade his 50mpg Yaris diesel for a 3.2 litre petrol beast you're not helping the cognitive dissonance...

Meh, I don't do the mileage I did and diesel's 5p/litre more expensive than petrol here in the UK. Anyhow, I;ll be watching this thread with interest...



Alan

[Tone]

Sorry to be nay sayer but Posts like this rarely pan out. 40 posts already and no action taken. If they were going to do it, they would have already done so. Asking for assistance over the net on a project of this scale is questionable at best. Talk is cheap. DO it first and then TELL us about it....

[ZEUS]

I found this interesting: http://www.isuzudieselswapper.com/index.html

[Ldub]

Sorry to be nay sayer but Posts like this rarely pan out. 40 posts already and no action taken. If they were going to do it, they would have already done so. Asking for assistance over the net on a project of this scale is questionable at best. Talk is cheap. DO it first and then TELL us about it....

CLASSIC TONE POST!!!!...

I Sure Miss You Dude...