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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
The smallest passenger car diesel engine that I know of is the Smart's 3-cylinder 0.8 liter turbodiesel.
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Interesting. Now to find out if we have any diesel smart cars here in the U.S., in salvage condition... I have found dozens of gas smarts, but not one diesel yet. Does anyone know if they import the diesels here? If so, anyone have a source for a wrecked one, or know where to source just the engine and any bits needed to make it run.
I am half reconsidering the idea after some more thought, and thinking I might actually try to find a used Honda 4 cylinder, and turn it 90 degrees to mount it in the cart, and then weld the gears so it is a solid differential, then feed one shaft to a rear differential and one shaft to a front differential so I will then have 4 wheel drive. I have seen this done in rock crawlers and sand rails before, so I figure it should work great for a custom cart build, and should be fairly fuel efficient as well.
I'd still like all the diesel input I can get though, so keep the info and ideas coming, please.
Thanks everyone!