Diesel swap?

[PaulinPa]

Saw an ad in Phillly paper for a 85 524TD and was wondering,just for the sake of discussion,how hard it would be to put a diesel in a coupe?I know WHY would you want to do it,but with all the new interest in diesels and bio fuels it might be a way to enjoy being able to still drive a coupe in the gas starved future?(Gas went up 20cents in last 10 days!)

 

[Adamski]

comparing prices of fuel in US and EU, here price jumped 1dollar during 10 last years. So you still have cheap petrol. I would rather wait with something like diesel swap and even if :evil: surely not old diesel lump like this. I would rather wait for dropping the price of E85 bio-Ethanol.
It is giving more power than any other petrol actually it has 107 octane rating. To run on this you have to change fuel linnings for top quality, stronger ones and replace a tank with plastic lined. This fuel is more corrosive than usual petrol. Also a mix 85% of E85 and 15% of petrol will help ignite the engine from cold. And finally you can go green as ever.

 

[x_atlas0]

The 524D engine is, if I recall right, M20 based, so you'd have to swap out an E28 subframe and use the motor mounts/etc associated with it, unless you wanted to go custom.