Re: 4cyl. AMC 's - The New Gold Standard -

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

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" Personally, with Diesel @ $1.45
" now - those Turbo Diesel Jettas
" are looking better - a little over
" $11K used with roughly 60k on
" the clocks in eBay -
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" but then again, Think AMERICAN :
" from '79 - '84 , Cadillac had a Diesel
" offering in their line-up - saw one
" on Google for $3,500.00 ........
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" big weakness other than being down
" on Torque & HP lacking a
" TURBO - is they blew head gaskets
" with the head bolts stretched.

as i hear it, they had other problems.  while a good -design-
conversion from the olds gas block - which was very rugged - in the
gas engine production facility they totally missed the necessary
manufacturing tolerances a diesel needs.

the chevy 6.2/6.5 is a totally separate design made in a then-new
diesel plant, which just happens to be similar in size and mount
points to a bbc.

" can't believe the prices of used
" Diesel engines - whydah thunk ?
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" Imagine .....- a Blown Diesel in your Spirit ?

hitch - both olds 5.7 and chev 6.2/6.5 weigh about 750 lbs.  i've
often thought they'd be naturals for a full-size jeep though.  btw
peninsula diesel in michigan has a 350hp 6.5 turbo.

t5s have been used in se asia trucks, so if you could only get the
bellhousings there oughta be some sweet nissan, isuzu, or toyota
diesels that'd bolt up.  datapoint: too small for our cars, but the
overseas echo/scion xa-xb has a turbodiesel that makes 90hp from 1.4L.
scale that...

for new-ish [tj/xj/yj/zj etc] jeeps, look for diesels that use
aisin-warner trannies, like toyota...

dc themselves has announced an '05 yj diesel, with i believe a
mercedes engine and trans.

" So............ How aBOUt those 4cyl. AMC
" motors ......ehy?  Think you could pull
" a clean 200HP out of one for a grocery
" getter and STILL get great mileage on
" used French Fry cookING Oil  ?

this brings to mind something that smokey yunick diddled up, back in
the '80s - the 'hot vapor engine'.  his test mule was a fiero and the
engine was an iron puke.  his idea - in an ic engine, power comes from
heat, so keep the heat in the engine.  so he pre-heated the intake
with coolant, then compressed it with a turbo [which he called a
'vaporizer' iirc, in this app] to maintain charge density, then heated
it again with exhaust.  at this point, it's so hot that gasoline is
completely vaporized, like propane, and that was one of his major
goals.

iirc he ran stock internals and compression and got no ping on pump
gas - and also 250hp from the 2.5L motor.  i don't remember what he
claimed for mileage, but 40mpg sticks in my mind.

this was all writen up in pop sci or something like that.
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