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Old 02-24-2009, 01:52 PM   #79 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by 99metro View Post
I read that article on the diesel Chevette in your magazine. I guess I should just save some money and subscribe! hmmm - wonder if that little diesel in the Chevette would fit in the Metro... nah.
Not to hijack but this thread has got me thinking about what I wanted to do, put a Chevette Isuzu diesel into my old Yugo.

Anyway the Chevette diesel engines are cheap because the body would always fall off before the motor was broken in, they are 50+hp and a much more sensible alternative for the metro (aka power wise) the really unaerodynamic chevettes could get over 50mpg with a manual tranny, I see no reason why 70mpg wouldn't be possible in the lighter Geo Metro chassis.

I hope this Kubota works out great and one thing I might add, your diesel probably does NOT like 3k+ RPMs, you probably need to gear your tranny up a bit to make it workable.

That Kubota would probably work perfectly in my Subaru 360, too bad the tranny and motor are integrated

Cheers
Ryan
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