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Originally Posted by duffremle
As someone who owns a gas and a diesel truck, they both have their pros and cons. Gas starts up easier, faster and drives like the cars we're used to. Diesel engines like to warm up a little and don't start so well in cold weather, particularly old diesels with indirect mechanical injection. Diesel costs about 50 cents more per gallon. Diesel maintenance costs are often more too. Expect to use 10 quarts or more for an oil change. Coolant capacities are often in the 8 gallon range.
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Mine starts up fine but I built it knowing these engines don't like to start cold, I put in duel 650 watt block heaters (which I haven't needed yet even on a night where the low was -2'F), file fitted piston rings, putting 6.2L non-turbo heads on a 6.5L turbo block gives me about 1 more point of compression, I made a 0000gauge starter cable with 2ga grounds off each battery and not having a belt driven fan allows the engine to crank faster. So I say "what cold start problems"?
The 6.5L takes about 6 quarts of oil, just like a gas engine, when I built my new engine and filled it with water for the first time it took just shy of 5 gallons and thats with a few extra feet of radiator hose due to the electric pumps.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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