BMW turbodiesels

know idea but the 3litre jobby is the nuts! the 2litre is a bit poo not had a V8 one didn't know there was?

Highly unlikely you'd get away with it in a modern diesel - the high pressure pumps are made with very tight tolerances and end up very knackered very quickly if they get a fuel outside operating spec.

To use veg. oil, you need an olde-worlde diesel lump.

2 litre engine is most definitely not poo.

Alpina D3 anyone?

Some people think that any four cylinder donk is inept, though.

I see your Alpina D3 and raise you the BMW 318tds Compact.

Cheers Steve, I'm looking for something (if it exists) that would run on veg oil and have power of at least 170BHP and torque of at least

270 lb ft. & 6 cylinder or more (I say looking, it's a purely theoretical exercise is this, nowt else) - you got any idea what might work?

I have a feeling you'll be looking at commercial engines - can't think of any car with an old-worlde diesel of that kind of spec.

3.9 & a 4.4 'parrently (loadsa torque!).

Erm, thinking about it - if you were to go for a 5-pot, I think the old VAG 2.5 TDI would chip to those specs.

Yes! I forgot all about them, could very well do the job. Cheers again Steve.

Merc E300 TD maybe - early pre common rail W210 model. Not the most well built merc ever though.

VAG 5-pot 2.5 TDI - chip straight to 170bhp, great meaty sound to them, not all that different economy-wise when driven "enthusiastically" to the

1.9TDI, but I don't know how long the pumps would last, even on them, with the veg oil treatment. I know they're a lot older technology than the more modern commonrail/PD engines, but I don't think they'd like it all that much. I might be wrong though. I'd have said the 2.0TD from the Maestro et al would be a better bet - dunno if 170bhp's possible, but you can get a fair bit more power than standard out of them, I've heard.

Just be after the engine - for a transplant. It's not going to happen, just thinking about how plausible something would be.

Yeah, a friend of mine once had an Audi A6 with one in, it was pretty spiffy with it's auto box too. I liked it a lot.

Transplant into what???

That shed of a Chevrolet I put pictures up on the shit car compo thread. I was just wondering how cheap I could run it, and it occurred that maybe a diesel running used veg oil may be cheap. As I say, it isn't going to happen - just an evenings worth of under-occupied brain!

Lotus Exige?

Must it absolutely have six?

*thinking: Volvo D5 donk*

Or the Isuzu 3.0 V6.

1982 - 1984 El Camino?

The D5 is a common-railer though. The older VAG I5 unit should be OK mind.