Joined: Thu Oct 30 2008, 07:15PM
Location: minnesota
Posts: 124
Erik, I happen to think your project is terrific. I dont care about the why. I love stuff like this. Glad you are doing it and I intend to follow the blog.
Joined: Sat Mar 29 2008, 03:36PM
Location: North eastern Wis.
Posts: 1638
I agree, that is a lot of very good work no matter what the reason. Different is why these cars had options. Just about anybody can bolt together stock stuff. (no insults implied) what you are doing takes mad skill. Keep up the great work. (engineering & craftsmanship)
We are probably going to be running some kind of organic diesel derivative in the future anyway. All the fossil fuel is disappearing fast. We knew that forty years ago. That's why B/P drilled where they did, stuff's gettin' hard to find and risky to drill. We are not going to drill our way out of this. We need some new thinking.
To those who disagree be glad you have that right. God Bless !nana OK I'm off the soap box. !thumb
Hey, I love 440's, but I'll put my truck with a stock Cummins against a truck with a stock 44O any day. Mileage, torque, and acceleration. $2500 is a stock rebuild on a 440. I bought an Edge EZ programmer for $200 that can adds 75 hp and about 150 lbs of torque.
Diesel Power magazine did a neat comparison a while back where they took about $2500 to mod a Ford pick up with a diesel and one with a gas. It was incredible how much more of an improvement could be made in tq and hp on the diesel with the same money.
This is a cool project. I just wish it was a wagon.
Joined: Thu Mar 01 2007, 09:30PM
Location: Houston
Posts: 1735
I have a brother in law who is very successful in the oil business. He has a petroleum engineering degree and over 30 years experience in the geological side (exploratory) of the business.
He tells me "no one knows just how much oil there is - but there is a lot."
Companies drill offshore for a variety of reasons but ultimately they do so because that's where it is the lowest cost.
The oil spill, though doing a great job of selling newspapers and making Obama look tough, is meaningless in terms of the ecology.
That woody wagon is super cool. I might have to find me one of those for a future project! Thanks for the kind words, and even the criticism. I got both of the same when I stuck an LS2 in my 1995 BMW M3. The purists hate it, but they can't drive around it. I am hoping there is an outside chance I can get it moving under its own power to get it on a trailer for a big diesel event in Redding, CA on July 10th. If I get it running I will get some video for sure.
Joined: Mon Jan 16 2006, 02:52AM
Location: Vantaa,Finland
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I really don't like that Cummins at all. It's a heavy, unsophisticated, noisy and rough running truck engine that should stay in a truck. If I were to do a Diesel swap, I would use a Duramax V8. Or being in Europe, propably a BMW V8 Diesel ro something similar. Did you know that they sell diesel Chrysler 300's in Europe? It's got a 3 litre Mercedes V6 Turbo Diesel, a friend of mine has got a STW diesel 300 and he took it to the strip last year, run 14.5 straight from the street.
Joined: Sat Aug 19 2006, 05:03PM
Location: Ontario, Canada
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jyrki wrote ... I really don't like that Cummins at all. It's a heavy, unsophisticated, noisy and rough running truck engine that should stay in a truck. If I were to do a Diesel swap, I would use a Duramax V8. Or being in Europe, propably a BMW V8 Diesel ro something similar. Did you know that they sell diesel Chrysler 300's in Europe? It's got a 3 litre Mercedes V6 Turbo Diesel, a friend of mine has got a STW diesel 300 and he took it to the strip last year, run 14.5 straight from the street.
From what I've heard the 1st gen Duramax V8 has some nasty inherent problems. I steered my dad into a 2006 Duramax which is 2nd gen but before they added the complex emissions system in the exhaust. So far he's very happy with it.
Personally, if I had to replace my truck tomorrow, my first choice would still be a 94-98 Cummins 12V. Having said that, I wish we had even half of the options in diesel-powered vehicles, and station wagons for that matter, that are available in Europe.