Turn Your Clunker Green: Four Electric and Diesel Upgrades
source: http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1035113_turn-your-clunker-green-four-electric-and-diesel...
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Love learning more about this: I actually took my little ford focus to Reverend Gadget (remember who killed the electric car?) to see how much it would cost to convert my car to an electric. The answer: 5K.
"Kudos to our colleagues at Popular Mechanics, who found four great green conversions for keeping clunkers out of the scrapyard, two to electric power and two to diesel engines.
Technically, two of their four cars wouldn't qualify as clunkers; they were built before the 1984 cutoff.
Greener diesel drag cars
They weren't all built as green cars, either. In fact, both diesel conversions are very competitive drag racers (all that torque, you know).
Mike Cook's fitted his 1994 Mustang with a hot-rodded GM Duramax diesel engine that gave him 33 miles per gallon on a recent road trip. David Murad's Buick Regal (made of parts from an '81 Regal, an '82 Regal, and an '81 Oldsmobile Cutlass--read the story) gets 25 to 35 mpg."
"Kudos to our colleagues at Popular Mechanics, who found four great green conversions for keeping clunkers out of the scrapyard, two to electric power and two to diesel engines.
Technically, two of their four cars wouldn't qualify as clunkers; they were built before the 1984 cutoff.
Greener diesel drag cars
They weren't all built as green cars, either. In fact, both diesel conversions are very competitive drag racers (all that torque, you know).
Mike Cook's fitted his 1994 Mustang with a hot-rodded GM Duramax diesel engine that gave him 33 miles per gallon on a recent road trip. David Murad's Buick Regal (made of parts from an '81 Regal, an '82 Regal, and an '81 Oldsmobile Cutlass--read the story) gets 25 to 35 mpg."
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jeffissleeping
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yeah! this is awesome, my friend just recently converted his '82 diesel Volvo to run on peanut and canola oil...totally cool, and smells good too!
converting oldies into goodies makes me grin....
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