The TDI is pretty versatile. If it's installed with a bigger turbo,
intake, exhaust, and given more fuel it can make 200hp reliably, and
still get about the same fuel economy driven normally. Those
modifications are somewhat trivial compared to the fabrication required
to install the motor in the first place! There's a guy in San Diego with
a Volvo 245 TDI that makes about 200hp as a daily driver.
You can usually get by with a much less powerful diesel engine because
of the improved torque curve. The 1.9 TDI only has 90hp, but it feels
almost as peppy as a Volvo 740 Turbo that has 80 more horsepower for
normal driving, since most people don't spin their 4 cylinder gasoline
motors over 4,000 rpm in normal driving, which is required to utilize
most of the engines power.
Tyler
MG wrote:
Yeah but aren't those 5 speeds hard to find? The Jeep does have a 4cyl
with 5 speed now and has done quite nicely with it. It is a lot of fun
to drive and one of the few vehicles where I can double clutch a
downshift while holding the brake and goosing the throttle with the
left foot without letting up on the brake. Lots of fun and that would
mean that I wouldn't have to give that up.
The 2.5 turbo would probably be a little less power then the 606 3.5
turbo but probably more power then the 2.5 gas that's in there now.
The VW TDi probably doesn't have enough power to replace the gas 4 cyl.
Manfred
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