Re: [MBZ] Diesel cars in the US (not trucks)

2009-08-12 Thread ernest breakfield
agreed on the trans, and i've been fond of many things i've seen Advanced Adapters do. as for the fuel economy, i've never seen the kind of fuel economy in my XJ that the Libbys got, but i've never seen a Libby in some of the places our very mildly prepared XJ goes. if only there was a g

Re: [MBZ] Diesel cars in the US (not trucks)

2009-08-12 Thread ernest breakfield
yep, we know,... but like all Grands since i bought my XJ back in '94, the Grands were too dang plush and they wanted *way* too much money for something that was actually going to be used in the dirt. ;-) cheers! e Alex Chamberlain wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM, ernest breakfield

Re: [MBZ] Diesel cars in the US (not trucks)

2009-08-12 Thread Kevin
The 42RLE leaves a few things to be desired. But if you have one and have $1700, advance adapters just came out with a replacement for the tailhousing that is a crawl box with a 2.7ish to 1 low. Bolts in, no driveline mods required. Transmission aside, the liberty diesel wasn't the world's most re

Re: [MBZ] Diesel cars in the US (not trucks)

2009-08-12 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM, ernest breakfield wrote: > Jeep; being a long-time J**p enthusiast and a bit of a diesel-head, i was > pretty excited to hear about J**p doing a diesel and willing to overlook the > stupid Libby IFS chassis they were putting it in. They also sold the diesel Grand C

Re: [MBZ] Diesel cars in the US (not trucks)

2009-08-12 Thread ernest breakfield
VW; while the TDIs are long-time favs of the BioFuels set around here, VW really blew it in the last few years by using an emissions system that prohibits the use of BioDiesel. this article on the topic isn't entirely accurate, but gives you the idea of some of the challenges: http://www.bio