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Old 11-01-2008, 07:10 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Welcome to EM! Sounds like you have a unique classic Chevette there. I just wiki-ed your car and it looks like an Isuzu powerplant :

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It oughta be an Isuzu engine - it was an Isuzu car. The Chevette, maligned little ratmobile that it was, would get you from A to B dry and usually faster than walking, so whatever bad that can be said against it, it had that on the plus side.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at it - if there were any still alive around here, it could probably be bought for pocket change. But all other factors being equal, I think I'd probably insist on the diesel - if I'm going to be seen in a Chevette, I'd like to have a little something to brag about, you know?

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Old 11-02-2008, 11:25 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Thanks for the welcomes guys. Yeah the engine is a 1.8L, and it spins all the way to 5000rpm, pretty high for a diesel! It also makes 70 lb-ft of torque at 2000 rpm so the car is super easy to drive. I guess my inital goal is to break 60mpg, although I could never do it on any type of daily average: too much traffic here in Los Angeles. I average about 18mph on my commute to work, and my mileage drops down into the high 30s =(.
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As soon as I read that article in the diesel mag my quest to find one began. Took me well over a year to source 1 in Michigan. I too was finally plagued with tranny issues this summer. But I just bought another runner driver with a spare tranny from down south and it should be delivered Friday. Now ill have 2 of these bad boys to keep the miles off my Duramax. Muhahaha....
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The Isuzu 4FB1 engine is quite underrated, yet it's as good as or eventually better than a Volkswagen engine of the same era. IIRC it had also been used on some export-bound versions of the Brazilian equivalent to the Chevrolet Cavalier. There was also the 4FC1 which BTW shares the same bore and stroke of the current straight-6 turbodiesel fitted to the Chevrolet and GMC half-ton trucks.
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Ford Tempo also had a diesel option in '84 - '86. I have seen one, but have no idea of what gas mileage it could get. It used a Mazda 2.0 L diesel motor.

Wikipedia says the Tempo had a drag coefficient of 0.36 for two door and 0.37 for four door, so it should have been able to get 50 mpg.
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Ford Tempo also had a diesel option in '84 - '86. I have seen one, but have no idea of what gas mileage it could get. It used a Mazda 2.0 L diesel motor.
That was the RF engine. Odd enough, this engine and the gasser FE had the same bore and stroke of the 2.0L versions of the GM/Opel Family II engine, but they're unrelated.

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