Hello
This is the FAQ about gas engine convertion in my country specially with those WW II old military Jeeps or old trucks and the way people has deal with it is the following: They sell the gasoline engine with the gearbox or get rid of them, then they buy an used japanese diesel engine with the gearbox and put them in. There are many importers of used japanese engines here. Regards Juan Paraguay - South America --------------------- The ratio is REALLY different, and thus a diesel head and block are built much heavier. The early (oil crisis response) atrocious GM diesel failures (which are probably responsible for why AMericans don't drive diesel cars) were essentially a gasoline 350 with a diesel head. They aren't around anymore... for a good reason. the block, crankshaft, etc, just couldn';t take the extreme conditions that a diesel block is built heavy for... Besides this issue, you'd really need a whole new head with a proper prechamber, etc, and a diesel head and cylinder faces is machined just to achieve the proper fuel injection spray pattern and the proper behavior of the gases once they start to ignite. It's not at all the same as a gasoline head and pistons. Mark At 11:57 AM 12/13/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Hello, >I produce biodiesel and plan to convert a car engine that works with gas to >diesel. I plan to use diesel injectors, instead of spark plugs. I know that >compression ratio is different, but I wonder if it works or not. Any idea >about it..? > >also mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
