ok long story short, i opend my big mouth and told my cousin i could beet his new GTR skyline with my mk1 caddy diesel
take you caddy put a detroit 6V-53TT with N90 injectors, take the fuel pin in the rail grind it down to allow for 5000 rpm runs, and remove any kind of muffling device, itll be dammned fast and loud enough to rattle the panels off the GTR on an idle lol but seriously i would like to see this done a diesel beat a gtr, i think the OM606 would be the best bet, a caddy would be easy enough to convert to real wheel drive, using say a 9 inch for rear, running 3:55's best gears for high torque diesel, need a locker or at least a good limites slip, as for the tranny stay away from the 700r4 chap but will not hold say 1400 lb/feet what you want if your looking automatic is an allison 1000 or a goerend built 47re, both will handle in excess of 2000ftlbs easy, weight will be an issue too everything nees to stripped or just the bare minimum no door panels etc.... this can be done it just needs to be thought out. if a 9000 lb truck can dot he quarter in 9 seconds a there is no reason why a caddy cant do it faster.
but seriously i would like to see this done a diesel beat a gtr,