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Originally Posted by freebeard
I don't know. Those first three are possibilities, but I'm most interested in the mild hybrid stop/start and regen that the alternator swap would provide.
A turbo might be less work, but I want to sit at stop lights in complete silence. This thing sound like a box of gravel at idle.
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Just a remind: since your Dasher is fitted with an indirect-injection engine, it won't respond so well to idle shut-off as some direct-injection engines do. Would it be too hard to overcome EPA regulations and get a 1.9SDI (naturally-aspirated and IIRC doesn't require electronic controls, even though from 2000 on it became mandatory in Western Europe to comply with stricter emission regulations) from Argentina as a replacement part? But anyway, a turbo wouldn't be so bad at all, since it already provides a moderate degree of exhaust noise suppression and is usually an improvement to the efficiency in Diesels.