[Vwdiesel] Diesel engine swaps, vw recepients

[Terry Briggs]

he only estimates the mileage at this point, due to the major weight 
difference between the donor and his jeep wrangler, I guess, I'm not 
sure, but from talking to the mail chick that brings ours, they used to 
get "around" 25 to 30 mpg" The mail vans weighed in at around 3900 lbs, 
his jeep weighs 1800 lbs, so there would be a MAJOR power to weight 
ratio difference, which could I suppose increase the mileage potential 
greatly
On Jul 19, 2006, at 10:38 AM, raymond greeley wrote:

> Has anyone here had experience or know of a site that may have 
> discussed the swap of a vw diesel
> into a dodge minivan. I have purchased van with  manual trans and 
> would like to mate up the
> dodge trans with the vw engine though would consider using the entire 
> vw drive train and just
> make up new axles and completelly new mounts. The weight difference of 
> a td jetta and a
> mini van is 600lbs, so with a little stripping down i should be able 
> to come close in weight.
>
> just  a note, I have not heard of the cummins 3.9 getting 40 mpg or i 
> would consider
> a slightly larger  vehicle to work and travel in. If you watch any of 
> the tour the france
> you notice as always the cars are all smaller than ours which is no 
> surprise, the thing i found
> interesting where the smaller cab over rv's, nothing like that in the 
> states
> so i am looking for any thoughts on this vw/minivan transplant. 
> thanks, ray
>
>> From: Terry Briggs <vbriggs at stny.rr.com>
>> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
>> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Diesel engine swaps
>> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:03:28 -0400
>>
>> On one of the jeep boards I use, there is a guy putting an old 3.9
>> dodge diesel from an old mail van into a jeep wrangler. He figures to
>> get around 40 mpg with it.
>> On Jul 18, 2006, at 2:19 AM, William J Toensing wrote:
>>
>> > I like diesels. Otherwise I wouldn't be visiting & contributing to
>> > this site. I like the idea of putting a Nissan Maxima diesel into a
>> > 1937 Chev. pickup. However, I would not recommend installing one in 
>> a
>> > Mustang unless you want to keep it for your own use. Those into
>> > collecting Mustangs either want to keep them as origional as 
>> possible
>> > or want to hotrod them. I had thought of putting one into a '46 or 
>> '47
>> > Hudson Commodore 6 I have but I probably wouldn't drive it enough to
>> > justify the cost in fuel savings. I am probably one of the few that
>> > would be interested in a Mustang converted to a diesel. If you do 
>> such
>> > a conversion, try to keep it looking as stock as possible outside 
>> the
>> > engine compartment.
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