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Posted by Daryl in Oz [210.50.228.6] on Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 06:25:42 :
In Reply to: gasoline flathead to diesel flathead conversion posted by junior [64.136.27.228] on Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 00:37:35 :
Yes you could do it. By the time you spent a BIG heap of dollars converting to drive the diesel lift pump, fitted injectors, raised the compression to at least 15:1, it would probably fire up and blow apart quicker than you could count how many dollars you spent. Then of course you would probably need a 7 main bearing crank and heavy rods, different pistons to make it even a little reliable and then it wouldn't be much like one of our engines. When Dodge used the diesel around 1940 it didn't look a lot like our flattie for very good reasons.