Interesting Engine Conversion...

Max_Damage

Heh...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1993-VAUXHALL-CALIBRA-1-7-TURBO-DIESEL-TDI-Conversion_W0QQitemZ200111518459QQihZ010QQcategoryZ9858QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Next someone will put a diesel engine into a Vauxhall Monaro!

unkel

That's pathetic tbh. A Calibra with the old Isuzu diesel lump in it. Blasphemy!

peasant

The car is the 2 Litre Turbo 16v 4x4 top of the range model, but this one has a difference.

It now produces clouds of black smoke, doesn't accelerate and it's 2WD only.

In short it drives like shyte and I butchered it completely ...but if I put it up on ebay long enough singing its praises for being "economical" ...some cheapskate dipstick will probably buy it anyway.

What's next ...a 911 with a Jetta 1.6 Diesel ? A true farmers Porsche?

unkel

peasant wrote:

What's next ...a 911 with a Jetta 1.6 Diesel ? A true farmers Porsche?

Perhaps for German farmers? All Irish farmers are millionairs

bazz26

Oh dear God, what was the point in that?

Blue850

What a waste.... of a great engine

maidhc

I saw a Ford Capri MkIII for sale a few years ago with a Mondeo 1.8TD engine. Not a bad conversion tbh, and surely livelier than the 1.6 Pinto.

I think the Calibra isn't the worst conversion either. It is less butchered than a lot of the Calibras left on the roads now, and I presume it wouldn't be all that difficult to revert it to normal once it can get classic insurance/tax. I sort of like it tbh.

The worst conversion goes to these sick souls who put Nissan Patrol engines into ~1990 S Class mercs.

alias no.9

TBH I'd suspect that the original engine was probably ****ed and there wasn't much of a selection of replacement engines so they went with the TD. I doubt anyone went to the trouble of removing a good engine to do this.

E92

That completely and utterly sucks as an engine conversion. Why wouold someone do that to that car???????? I have the image in my head of being behind that Cailbra driving and staying behind it cause I see the 4 exhausts and expecting it to let rip and hear a nice loud growl from it and then being glad I did stay back cause its so slow and leaves out plently of diesel clatter and fumes!

skibum

This is a very nice conversion, I know that 90% here will probably not agree
http://vagdrivers.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8296&hl=corrado+tdi

Professionaly done, not a quick budget butcher job. A lot of thought and research went into it. A very tuneable engine with a lot of potential for getting more bhp out of it, ie: engine remap, bigger injectors etc. Power and good mpg

Like I said this car would have a limited market, not everybody would appreciate it. I had a Corrado 1.8 16v and if I had the money and could hide this somewhere from the missus , I would love to have it or do a similar conversion myself.

peasant

I'm a big fan of diesel engines, but certain cars absolutely MUST have the original petrol engine in them ...anything else is a joke.

Top of the list for those "certain" cars would be:

The Calibra turbo 4x4
The Corrado G60

closely followed by the likes of:
Mark I Golf GTI
Peugeot 205 1.9 GTI
"classic" Saab 900 turbo
Mercedes S 500

It's the engine that "makes" those cars

Max_Damage

I too am a fan of diesel's, however, like Peasant said, some cars have to have a petrol engine. An example of this would be all classic American muscle cars.

Putting Nissan diesel engines into Jaguar XJ6's was a big thing back in the 80's and 90's apparently.

Their is a video on YouTube somewhere of some person in Japan who put a Lexus 6-cylinder engine into a Mercedes 500E. :mad: A car like that deserves a V8.

Max_Damage

Just spotted this on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-Scirocco-GTX-diesel-engine-Huntingdon_W0QQitemZ160127864664QQihZ006QQcategoryZ9873QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Enough Said.

smokey2

tbh it would have been worse if they'd used the opel 1.7td engine

CJhaughey

I once owned a mkII Scirocco storm edition with a bog standard 1.6litre VAG diesel installed, I will admit that it wsn't the fastest conversion but it got incredible fuel economy, I guess the low Cd of the Scirocco made it easy to push.
Very comfortable car with leather seats and all the extras, I sold it to a guy who wanted the interior for a beetle!

Hotwheels

If it had a perkins fitted, I might consider!