Corvette V8 diesel conversion - 40 mpg (US) avg.

[arcosine]

That's a heavy engine!

[bizzybody]

Originally Posted by Cowspots

Hi Y'all,
FYI: The Chevy Colorado is available as a crew cab diesel in Vietnam. Chevy should take a hint as that front end ROCKS! The EPA is killing light truck and auto diesels!

It's the "chicken tax" that killed the light truck (Courier and LUV size) in the USA. It goes back to a spat over chicken with Germany. Included in the tariff bill was a 25% import tax on light trucks.

The manufacturers found a loophole by shipping them in with the beds off as "truck parts". Subaru welded seats in the BRAT's bed and called it a "passenger vehicle". Eventually the loopholes got closed and the little truck imports stopped.

Of all the parts of the chicken tax law, only the 25% import duty on light trucks hasn't been repealed. The "passenger vehicle" loophole is still there. Ford imports their Transit van from Turkey with cargo area windows, rear seats and belts. They have a disassembly plant in the US where the windows get replaced with solid panels, the rear seats and belts are removed, then all those pieces get run through a shredder.

Your Government At Work!

Meanwhile, the Chrysler/Mercedes/VW Sprinter is built in Mexico with a V12 Mercedes engine. Va-Rooooommmmm!

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Cowspots

No 3L 3-Cyl Diesel exists to my knowledge. There are 3L 4-Cyl Common Rail Diesel FORD Rangers in Taiwan. VW had the cast iron and more desirably the aluminum block Lupo 1.2L TDI in Germany and the UK.

There are some agricultural/stationary 3cyl Diesels around the 3.0L range, such as the old Detroit Diesel 3-53, that Case/New Holland/FPT ones based in the layout of the Cummins B-series (either 2.9L or 3.4L available), and the Deutz 913-series. A friend of mine told me once about a friend of him from Argentina who adapted a 58hp Deutz F3L913 into a Brazilian short-bed F250 SuperDuty.

[oil pan 4]

There are also kubota 3 cylinder diesels in the 0.9L to 1.2L range.
They may even go larger or smaller than that, those are just the ones I have seen.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

There are also kubota 3 cylinder diesels in the 0.9L to 1.2L range.

But those wouldn't be reasonable into a 'Vette. Altough with a few mods it might be nice into a Pontiac Fiero

[Christ]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

But those wouldn't be reasonable into a 'Vette. Altough with a few mods it might be nice into a Pontiac Fiero

Sure they would, just not for speed. The 1.2 is capable of 100hp in short bursts and 50 ish reliably, makes ~30 normally without boost. Doesn't even take 20 hp to keep the Vette going 60 mph.

[oil pan 4]

It would have to be heavily boosted and water/methanol injected to make it reasonably fast.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Christ

Sure they would, just not for speed. The 1.2 is capable of 100hp in short bursts and 50 ish reliably, makes ~30 normally without boost. Doesn't even take 20 hp to keep the Vette going 60 mph.

I honestly wouldn't want a Vette to be unable to reach 80 MPH.

[mach4]

Sorry about resurrecting an old thread, but it still appears on the Most Popular Topics list on the EcoModding Central forum



I'd like to highlight my Mercedes sports car diesel conversion.



As has been pointed out at various places in the thread, the early MB diesels weren't terribly efficient, especially when mated to an automatic. Even with those limitations, I've been getting consistently over 30mpg over the past (almost) 60k miles. The car is extremely fun to drive, very reliable and I'd take it virtually anywhere.

If the car were to have the later model 606 engine vs the 617 and a 5 speed manual, it would very likely show 40mpg consistently. While the 606 conversion has been done, the amount of work, engineering and fabrication is over the top. Mine on the otherhand is a virtual bolt in conversion that has been documented in great detail.

More information - http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...age-30256.html

[Hardattack]

Diesel corvette. Cool. Sacrilegious but cool.