It's an enormous job. That said, my mate is putting a diesel engine in his Elise
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Is it possible to put a diesel engine in a once petrol car
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Doesn't say what generation (of which there are three).
Ranging from 90s simple to late 00s complicated.
It will be far from simple, it's a tedious enough job on a 1988 Astramax.
It's a VAG 1.9TDi engine, I think from a Fabia VRS, but will be chipped as well.
Will be in an S2 Exige or 111R donor car and will be run on biofuel.
He's doing it as it hasn't been done before and will be a bit interesting, plus it will annoy the purists somewhat
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I wonder if the 'box fitted to the Exige would mate upto one of those crazy Toyota 170-odd BHP diesels.
I've never seen an Elise with a diesel engine, but I have seen more than a few Westfields with a TD lump in 'em. IIRC Westfield even had their own demonstrator diesel.
0-60 in 5.5 and 60mpg.
I've never seen an Elise with a diesel engine, but I have seen more than a few Westfields with a TD lump in 'em. IIRC Westfield even had their own demonstrator diesel.
0-60 in 5.5 and 60mpg.
It's a VAG 1.9TDi engine, I think from a Fabia VRS, but will be chipped as well.
Will be in an S2 Exige or 111R donor car and will be run on biofuel.
He's doing it as it hasn't been done before and will be a bit interesting, plus it will annoy the purists somewhat
Sounds interesting, so about 150hp of clattery smokeyness in an elise
Would get huge mpg with the elise being so light. Have you got any build links? would be interested to see that thats for sure.Sounds interesting, so about 150hp of clattery smokeyness in an elise
No build links yet, he's still getting all the bits together.
It'll be interesting as the engine weighs about 150kg so won't do the handling many favours but it should be about 200bhp and 330lb/ft of torque!
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At least the engine is in the right place to handle a weight increase.
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Well, that's true for any car. Why I said it's "not too big a job", on the older cars.