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Engine Specific Info and Questions => Non VW Group Diesel => Topic started by: jwspin on June 12, 2006, 09:38:35 am

Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: jwspin on June 12, 2006, 09:38:35 am: I found a ford tempo diesel today. it is an N/A motor. not sure who makes it but it had a nipondenso VE4 pump on it. does anyone know if this pump is worth anything to us? what size plunger is on it?

-jared
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: Benjamin on June 12, 2006, 10:53:38 am: Look to the numbers on the pump, 0 460 494 ...
The 9 stands for the diameter of the plunger.
problebly its a 8 or 9mm, worthless...
if its a 0, 1, ore 2 you can get it.

Greetz, Benjamin
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: RabbitJockey on June 12, 2006, 11:57:57 am: aren't those diesels mad by mazda?
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: tylernt on June 12, 2006, 05:25:46 pm: Huh, I'm getting ready to sell my Tempo/Topaz. Gas though, if it was diesel I might keep it. ;)

Here's a little bit of info:

http://www.tempotopaz.com/main/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=6
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: fspGTD on June 12, 2006, 06:56:10 pm: Moved to non VW Group Diesel
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: jwspin on June 14, 2006, 04:07:43 pm: sorry jake i wanted it in the IDI section because i figured those guys would have more insight on if i could use the pump parts for a vw pump, the topic wasnt actually about the tempo.....

-jared
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: shwartzbewithyou on June 15, 2006, 01:54:53 pm: Does this Tempo work? If it's not dead, I betcha you could sell it reallll easy. Don't start pulling off parts that you can't replace. Even the motor alone would probably sell on any of the Mazda forums.

Really rare!
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: 935racer on June 15, 2006, 03:03:09 pm: The ford tempo pump as far as I know were all 10mm heads. They are also counter rotating. Its also a ford tempo :roll:
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: Kudagra on June 15, 2006, 07:12:44 pm: Funny thing was is they made AWD Tempos. Funny because it was a laughable AWD system I wouldnt want on a Matchbox car.
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: 935racer on June 16, 2006, 04:23:10 pm: They made AWD tempos :shock: AS ghey as fords are, and the tempo being the pinacle of their crap pile... A diesel AWD tempo would make for a wicked field car :twisted:
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: Kudagra on August 29, 2006, 11:40:03 am: Yea but diesel ones are rare as as the AWD ones...but I suppose a AWD diesel Tempo would be as rare as a stock AWD diesel A2 Jetta
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: 935racer on August 29, 2006, 11:54:20 am: So you are saying they were never made?
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: Kudagra on August 29, 2006, 04:35:59 pm: Quote from:
So you are saying they were never made?

Not in the US...you Northerners might find them but I doubt it.

In the US they made the last year of the diesel was 1986 and the 1st year of AWD was 1987 till 1991.

I guess one could try to see if diesel would mate to a AWD trans.
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: QuickTD on August 29, 2006, 05:49:34 pm: Quote
I guess one could try to see if diesel would mate to a AWD trans.

Don't think so. I had a couple of these things, Still have and engine/trans in fact. They had more in common with the mazda 626 than the tempo. Far as I know the diesel trans was also a mazda unit, not the same pattern as the ford.
Title: Ford Tempo Diesel
Post by: 935racer on August 29, 2006, 07:03:49 pm: I was just thinking it would be sweet to pick up for a few hundred bucks and beat the *** out of it in a ghetto rally :lol: No way in hell I am gonna invest time into a custom swap on a ford tempo.