This isnt really auto general, even though it may seem a little outside the normal maintenance...
First up I haven't worked at all on diesels, other than understanding basically how they work I only know gas stuff so far and only what i've put my hands on to work on. So i'm trying to understand something...
How feasible would it be to try and make a different make of diesel injectors work in an engine? The specific case in point - the oldsmobile diesel 5.7L/350 v8's of the early 80's which were much maligned and such are as close to "no parts available" as you can practically get. I haven't checked much in person just heard this from others who went looking. (My interest being mostly wanted to toy around with one as a beater for things like waste oil fuel and stuff/wouldn't want to damage a good engine I mean.) Injectors specifically sound impossible to find... but I was wondering why different injectors couldn't be used like from a GM 6.2 or ford 6.9 or something?
I'm aware you'd be doing some metalwork on the head, potentially welding up parts of a hole and drilling/tapping slightly different to position things properly, but would it be radically more than that or would it mostly be a machining trick?
I've wondered the same thing about diesel injector pumps as well, hearing things about the Cummins Ppumps that are durable tanks still available vs say the Stanadyne stuff for the IDI v8's that are now super-expensive like $1700... no i'm not talking about putting an inline 6 pump on a v8 or confusing IDI pressures with DI pressures, i'm just... wondering how much more complicated it would be to try and reengineer fuel systems on the older IDI v8's. If it's as "simple" as some machinework in the head, and physically mounting some other diesel pump even from some import or marine engine or whatever, and trying to make it work. I mean i'd think both those problems are more solvable/no worse than all the other crazy machinework i've heard of being done at all.
I'll admit my judgement on things is clouded by how apparently easy it is to put a custom engineered fuel injection system on gas engines - where guys weld up mounting bosses on manifolds, drill holes, install injectors, then cobble together a Megasquirt system or old Chevy TPI setup or whatever and the computer figures it all out. If I don't consider those kinds of builds unfeasible, what additional problems would there be trying to reengineer diesel injection?
First up I haven't worked at all on diesels, other than understanding basically how they work I only know gas stuff so far and only what i've put my hands on to work on. So i'm trying to understand something...
How feasible would it be to try and make a different make of diesel injectors work in an engine? The specific case in point - the oldsmobile diesel 5.7L/350 v8's of the early 80's which were much maligned and such are as close to "no parts available" as you can practically get. I haven't checked much in person just heard this from others who went looking. (My interest being mostly wanted to toy around with one as a beater for things like waste oil fuel and stuff/wouldn't want to damage a good engine I mean.) Injectors specifically sound impossible to find... but I was wondering why different injectors couldn't be used like from a GM 6.2 or ford 6.9 or something?
I'm aware you'd be doing some metalwork on the head, potentially welding up parts of a hole and drilling/tapping slightly different to position things properly, but would it be radically more than that or would it mostly be a machining trick?
I've wondered the same thing about diesel injector pumps as well, hearing things about the Cummins Ppumps that are durable tanks still available vs say the Stanadyne stuff for the IDI v8's that are now super-expensive like $1700... no i'm not talking about putting an inline 6 pump on a v8 or confusing IDI pressures with DI pressures, i'm just... wondering how much more complicated it would be to try and reengineer fuel systems on the older IDI v8's. If it's as "simple" as some machinework in the head, and physically mounting some other diesel pump even from some import or marine engine or whatever, and trying to make it work. I mean i'd think both those problems are more solvable/no worse than all the other crazy machinework i've heard of being done at all.
I'll admit my judgement on things is clouded by how apparently easy it is to put a custom engineered fuel injection system on gas engines - where guys weld up mounting bosses on manifolds, drill holes, install injectors, then cobble together a Megasquirt system or old Chevy TPI setup or whatever and the computer figures it all out. If I don't consider those kinds of builds unfeasible, what additional problems would there be trying to reengineer diesel injection?