Other than being tragically underpowered... The OM 617 makes much more power for displacement...
There's more misinformation about the GM diesels of the 80s than probably any other engines except maybe the Vega... Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:19 PM, fmiser via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Larry wrote: > Man, we diesel enthusiast just can;t get a break, 1st, back in > the 70's, GM tried to use gas V8 cranks which broke too soon, > now, Not true. It was engineered as a diesel, but the bore and stroke dimensions were the same as the gasoline engine so both could be machined on the same line. That diesel block and crank are sought-after items for high-power gasoline builds. The early engines had problems - including the lack of a water separator for the fuel. It was typical of GM at the time, put the car on the market before it was really done in engineering and let the early customers be "beta-testers". After the bugs were worked out, the 5.7L diesel really was pretty good. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
