Author Topic: Anyone ever seen a vw diesel in an S10 (Read 9860 times)

Seafarer12 · « **on:** January 11, 2007, 08:54:42 pm »

Been contemplating engine swaps when my 2.8 bites the dust. I was talking to a guy that refered me to this site and said you can stoke a 1.6 td up to 90 to 100 hp pretty easy. My truck was 110 new so there wouldnt be much power difference. I am just wondering if anyone has done a swap like this or has seen one. My main concern would be mating the engine to my tranny.

burn_your_money · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2007, 09:28:36 pm »

I'm not sure if it's been done into a Chev, but I know Samurai's get the swap a lot. 90 and 100 are quite easy to achieve. The problem would be the ratios in the Chev compared to the diesel ratios.

Seafarer12 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2007, 12:18:26 am »

I wouldnt be too worried about the ratios. My engine has about the same rpm range as a 1.6. It runs I would guess between 1500 to 3500 most of the time. I emailed the samurai guys and they didnt have any plans or offer any info on a chevy swap.

745 turbogreasel · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2007, 12:28:15 am »

Use the Sammy trans too, you won't have the oomph to break it.

zooky · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2007, 08:42:54 am »

if he is gonna do that he may as well use the toyota transmission, way stronger
sold here

Seafarer12 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2007, 06:20:11 pm »

The T-5 in my truck now will handle any power that VW can make.

zooky · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2007, 08:26:26 pm »

Quote from: Seafarer12

The T-5 in my truck now will handle any power that VW can make.

but there is an adapter for the toyota transmission, I dont know of one for the T-5

hillfolk'r · « **Reply #7 on:** January 13, 2007, 11:40:31 pm »

i always thought that a 4b cummins in an s 10 would be a nice setup......
a 1.6td??
it would be ok,,but for alot more torque,you should do a m-tdi

craiggroombridge · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2007, 08:14:47 am »

sounds like a project, the stock t-5 will take all a td can push, where will you get an adapter plate ?? havent seen one for a t-5 yet, dose your bellhousing seperate, also you don' t say the year if it is fuel injected or not.. but that is some of the things I think of good luck

Craig

Seafarer12 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2007, 06:18:40 pm »

A 4bt cummins is too big and heavy for the s-10. I would save that for a half ton. I have been looking around the site some and have read a lot about the tdi-m. I need to do a little more research about them. I know they are basicly a tdi with a mechanical pump but thats about it. I need to find out how you go about building one. One question I have, do the tdi's have the same bellhousing as the 1.6td's or are they different. I though a tdi would be a sweet swap till I learned all the electronics you have to get from the car to make them work. My truck is an 85 so there wont be any difficulties with the swap on the trucks end. I guess I could look into finding a 2wd tranny out of a Toyota. I just would have liked to have kept the T-5. No crossmember issues, no driveshaft issues, no speedo issues, no shifter issues.

zooky · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2007, 06:24:04 pm »

I am putting a 1.6 in a 2wd toyota pickup. If its underpowered but otherwise a good swap, I might step up to a TDI-M. Most of the work will have been done

Turbinepowered · « **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2007, 03:13:18 am »

Any good machinist's shop can make an adapter plate; you don't have to buy them from a company pre-made.

I believe there's a member of the forums who had a special plate made up to put a 1.9TD in an old Land Rover, which I doubt is a readily available plate.

Seafarer12 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 15, 2007, 12:59:52 pm »

I saw a guy post on here a while back about making an adapter plate for a 60 degree chevy bolt patten. I messeged him but he hasnt replied. I figured it wouldnt be all that hard. You would have to make a plate, flywheel spacer(maybe, depending on the input shaft) The only thing that might be problematic would be the clutch setup. I would just have to get an engine to see how it was all setup to figure out if it was worth the trouble.

bevboyy · « **Reply #13 on:** November 16, 2007, 07:09:15 pm »

Too much work. Just pick up an Isuzu 2.2. The mounts are available from GM. Matter of fact, all the incidentals are available from GM as the s10 came with the diesel as an option to 1987.

jimfoo · « **Reply #14 on:** November 16, 2007, 08:20:19 pm »

Quote from: "Turbinepowered"

Any good machinist's shop can make an adapter plate; you don't have to buy them from a company pre-made.

I believe there's a member of the forums who had a special plate made up to put a 1.9TD in an old Land Rover, which I doubt is a readily available plate.

I designed it and had someone make it. Not very readily available as I have the only one as far as I know.

Author Topic: Anyone ever seen a vw diesel in an S10 (Read 9860 times)

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