September 21, 2010
I have an old, dead Pontiac Sunfire that I want to convert to diesel, ultimately to run on bio-fuel. Advice?
This car was designed to run on gasoline, but a friend of mine told me that I can buy a new engine that runs on diesel. For me, this is more about going green than saving money. The car originally was designed to run on gasoline, but I have no problem with replacing part or all of the engine. The old engine blew a head gasket. Has anybody out there attempted this before?
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Gm made car diesels from 78-85. The common one was a 5.7 v8. The less common one was a 4.3 v6. The second generation of these engines were pretty good but they had such a bad rep by that time it did not matter. Parts are getting hard to come by for those. The 4.3 was used in the smaller transverse mounted front drive cars. The current car diesels tend to be fairly electronic and European so there will be nothing that just bolts and plugs in. The USA just is not into diesels except for big trucks. Those engines cost (used) about what your car was worth new and weigh about as much as the whole car.
I would like to do the same thing but have not really run into anything that is even remotely practical.