Inappropriate diesel converted shite

[sierraman]

Years ago wasn't it the fad to convert your car into a diesel? Folks would spend weeks attempting something ridiculous like dropping a Perkins phaser in a Cortina on the promise of 30mpg and perforated eardrums. One that sticks in my mind at a car show some years ago was a chap that installed a dizzler in a s1 xj6 - he'd had to make up some awful bonnet bulge out of grp!

[twosmoke300]

Didnt Standard use the TE20 tractor engine in the Vanguard Diesel. Bet that was a refined fast cruiser

[saucedoctor]

I think there's a Scim on the Blue Forum with a 25 6T1 from a BMW 525tds.

[cms206]

There's someone on the MMOC selling a Austin Maestro HLS converted with a Perkins diesel.

[DVee8]

A mate of mine put a 1.8 td in a Escort convertible

[anonymous user]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13999789@N03/6109697823/in/photostream/

 

a nice Lagonda with diesel

[Micrashed]

There are a whole load of people out there who insist on getting a zillion MPG by popping a cement mixer engine into a motorbike frame - Yanmar engines seem to be the diesel of choice for your discerning* biker

[cort16]

there was an xjs in the ebay thread recently with modern C220 Merc diesel engine in it.

[Tayne]

 

Its actually quite a good book.

[cort16]

 

thats a 530d motor in there

[ShiteRider]

I remember years ago seeing an ad in the autotrader for a tidy yellow mk1 capri gtxlr with a york diesel in it.

Seemed like a waste of a good car at the time.

[scruff]

There's a nice chap who writes for PC who has a Bristol with a BMC diesel (black cab) engine fitted, and I think he also has a diesel MGB.

 

Some friends of mine put a 200Tdi from a Discovery into a Rover P4.

 

 

[anonymous user]

We have had quite a few on the ebay tat thread over the years, my favourite was a grey primered Armstrong Siddeley, where the gearbox tunnel had a large piece of bathroom carpet covering where it had been hacked about and it was fitted with front seats from a Sherpa.

[panhard65]

My old Renault Fregate had a peugeot 504 diesel lump in it. Noisy, slow and did I say slow. It was pretty good on fuel though if you could put up with the noise and vibrations

[willswitchengage]

In the States it's well popular. Only they use what are essentially Iveco Eurocargo engines:

 

[Spiny Norman]

Got to say I really can't fathom how anyone would want to totally ruin a nice petrol engined car by amateur-ly bodging a tractor engine into it, but that's just me.

 

It's particularly galling when they do it to nice old classic cars where you can't even use the OMGMPG argument because the thing only gets driven 3000 miles a year if it's lucky.
Other opinions are available, I just hate Diesels.

[cort16]

I remember years ago seeing an ad in the autotrader for a tidy yellow mk1 capri gtxlr with a york diesel in it.

Seemed like a waste of a good car at the time.

 

I've a funny feeling Cortinadave on here may have owned that at some point. It blew up I think.

[Richard]

I was involved in converting a 205 GTi to diesel. My part was swapping to the diesel underbonnet loom. I got it looking as if it was meant to be there (which it was of course, just not in that car) and all but one thing (can't remember what) worked once the engine went in. This is it starting up after a year parked in the garage. It wasn't really making that noise, my phone was shit. The squealing at the end of the second video isn't the car either, it's some pigs.

 

 

[dollywobbler]

Pretty sure I've heard of a Citroen SM with a diesel engine fitted. No greater heresy available, though I have seen a Rolls Shadow for sale with a Volvo six-pot dizzler. 

[Richard]

I've a funny feeling Cortinadave on here may have owned that at some point. It blew up I think.

 

 

Cortinadave's Capri had a Sierra 1.8 TD in it I think, and it did break.

[Ratdat]

 

[Ratdat]

[eddyramrod]

I happened upon a 1981 Dodge pickup many years ago, which I rather fancied as a contrast to the 1979 Cadillac I was driving at the time.  I agreed a price, but failed to raise the funds in time and it was sold elsewhere.  360 V8 (5.9 litres) and 4-speed manual!  It had been the chassis-cab of an ambulance somewhere in the Middle East from new, and had quite low mileage up.  After it was retired, the ambulance body was lifted off and a used pickup bed bolted on.  Would have been a lovely tool.

A couple of years later it appeared on ebay.  It had been painted army-green, which was inappropriate as it had never been an army truck; but worse, it now had under the hood a Nissan 2.8 diesel.

There are some people I'd really like to meet.  On a dark night, with a crowbar in my hand...

[twosmoke300]

that roller looks like a New Holland TSA motor and intercooler set up . Good motors but must be bloody heavy

[Charlie Croker]

Im from a small town called Colne in Lancashire originally and there was (is?) a banger racing team called Stinkbrige who at the time (early 90s) were well into racing Mk2 Grannies.

Well they also ran a little sideline in converting Grannies into dizzlers. They converted at least 1 genuine Areg 2.8i Sport, A pre facelift Sreg 2.8iS and a good few pre facelift Ghia's. Seems like a offence punishable with a good kicking now but I fairness to them they seemed not bad conversions as they were around a while before they all went round the ring eventually and of course they were just old big motors at the time. I'm sure that they all got the old 2.1 Ford/Puggy engine.

[richardthestag]

There is a Stag out there with a sierra dizzler in it.

 

Looks nice, sounds shit, but tbh i cant get past the sounds shit bit.

 

Probably worth a mention that land rover factory slapped the vm 2.4 into the range rover classic, so fucking awful that it could barely pull its own weight from a standstill up a reasonable gradient.

 

They upgraded it with a turbo and gave it the grunt i needed. But then its thirst for fuel wasn't that far of the petrol v8 lol

[mat_the_cat]

Got to say I really can't fathom how anyone would want to totally ruin a nice petrol engined car by amateur-ly bodging a tractor engine into it

I prefer petrol engines too, but I guess they can always be re-converted back to standard with a new owner. Personally I'd be unlikely to want one, but I have seen some impressive engineering in conversions which is always of interest.

[spike60]

There's a guy on the Corvette UK forum who has made a 1980's Corvette into a pick up fitted with a 6.5 Chevrolet V8 diesel. I can't imagine why and my limited IT skills won't let me show the pics here.

[dollywobbler]

Probably worth a mention that land rover factory slapped the vm 2.4 into the range rover classic, so fucking awful that it could barely pull its own weight from a standstill up a reasonable gradient.

 

They upgraded it with a turbo and gave it the grunt i needed. But then its thirst for fuel wasn't that far of the petrol v8 lol

 

Thought the Rangie was always turbo diesel? It was pretty much just the engine out of the SD1, which was the fastest production diesel for a time (until Citroen released the CX turbo diesel). My 2.5 VM TD Rangie wasn't half bad. Just laggy.

[CortinaDave]

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This was my capri with a Sierra TD engine in it. The engine did indeed blow, but I had whitevanman of this parish put another in, largely because it was tax exempt and did 50mpg!

 

The car itself was pretty tired though, needed a lot of work. It was one of those "ten feet" cars - close up it was rough. The thing broke down in the middle of nowhere at 4.30am when I was driving to do a breakfast show on the radio station I worked at at the time, resulting in two hours of dead air on said radio station and my P45.

 

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