Nissan Diesel Engine conversions

You're probably on your own on the mounts and dealing with the timer for the glow plugs, mounting a battery large enough to start a diesel, exhaust etc.

sounds like a huge waste of $$ and time..

new gas tank. all new electrical..

new guages..

People don't realize -conversions- cost a BUNCH more than fixing what's there in most cases. People do chevy V8 conversions to Z cars because they have a V8 out of a old pickup truck and think it's going to be cheaper than rebuilding the Z inline 6. Most of those "projects" end up at the crusher after they realize it's going to take more than the $45 mount kit to make it work. One of the few conversions that makes sense economically is the old Jag V12 to chevy V8 conversion and even then it takes thousands to do it right, it's just it costs -more- thousands to fix the V12.

Try 'Novak Conversions' or 'Advanced Adapters'. Steve is right, conversions become a real job. I have a 68 Jeepster Commando with a 455 Buick, and am currently converting one to run a GM 1999 Votek 4.3 L engine. The mounts were the easy part.

Don't get me wrong, conversions are cool and done for the right reasons can turn out great. I saw a 4.3 vortec in a 90 RX-7 convertable and it was realy cool. But the people who think they are "saving money" doing this soon quickly learn there is nothing cheap about doing them.

Don't give up it is worth it and write everything down so you can tell me how to do it and eleminate a lot of the hastle. I want to do the same exact thing. The only thing you can get a diesel in is a giant truck and a VW. It will be worth 25% more as a diesel than a gas. I just saw a 13 year old VW Jetta with 200,000 miles sell for $3000.00 on ebay: because you can not get diesels in the US. Good luck.

I am getting an 1985 Nissan Pickup that is in pristeen shape (granny only drove it to church on sunday) it has a gas engine but I would like to replace it with a diesel so I can run biodiesel fuel. Nissan had sold a diesel PU in the same year. Where did you find the company selling Nissan engines, and do they have diesels. Since it was in the same truck I would think the conversion would be fairly simple (same engine mounts) Any thought? Oh and by the way, if this works out, I will have a 1985 Nissan gas engine in great shape for sale.

Using "biodiesel" as a search string in Google returned more than 444,000 hits.

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