70 RoadRunner w/diesel!

[MoparBill]

Check this out- I went to look at some Mopar stuff a guy was selling today and was stunned when I saw this. It's a 70 Roadrunner, but the guy replaced the 383 with a 3 cylinder Detroit Diesel!! It runs and drives, and uses a Mopar 4 speed! I just had to share...

 

[Cevidicus]

Wow! I find this strangely and arousingly awkward.....

 

[burntorange70]

Cool!

 

[1971RR]

Ok, thats cool. He probably gets 600 miles on that 20 gallon tank. I think a 4cyl Cummins would've been great in there too...

 

[tpodwdog]

:angryfire:you have GOT to be kidding meeeeeeeeeeeeee. are you friggin cereal????..i hope you photoshopped those pix. destroyed,,,,THAT CAR IS DESTROYED!. as a proud owner of A 1970 ROADRUNNERRRRRRR....i find this disgusting. if youre going to ruin a car ...then go ruin a freekin FORD FOR GODS SAKES....or a CAMARO!...how can you guys say thats cool?....its sacrilegious!!!!


im APAULLED....no really...i am :angryfire:

 

[MoparBill]

I definitely wouldn't do it myself, but I respect the engineering that it took to get the 4 speed to work like it does. The same guy showed me his mid 80s Dodge van- it has a 5 cylinder Mercedes diesel in it.

 

[63RedFury]

And you did not punch him in the F*****G mouth,Why?

 

[Pistol Pete]

Looks like he left the fan off.

 

[Deleted member 214]

I've seen DuraMax mills in Camaros and Mustangs, why not this? Gotta admire the guy's creativity and fabrication skills. Thinking outside the box? You can't even SEE the freakin' box! I love it!

 

[burntorange70]

:angryfire:you have GOT to be kidding meeeeeeeeeeeeee. are you friggin cereal????..i hope you photoshopped those pix. destroyed,,,,THAT CAR IS DESTROYED!. as a proud owner of A 1970 ROADRUNNERRRRRRR....i find this disgusting. if youre going to ruin a car ...then go ruin a freekin FORD FOR GODS SAKES....or a CAMARO!...how can you guys say thats cool?....its sacrilegious!!!!


im APAULLED....no really...i am :angryfire:

This would be why. Truck guys are running in the 10's and thats with a 7000LB truck! Just think what it would do in a 4000LB car. And on top of that you could still drive it every day and get over 20 MPG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ3yzOq6EcE

 

[72Satellite440]

Looks cool and why not!!! You guys dont get bent outa shape when someone puts a new 5.7 fuel injected into a classic ....Soo why not a kick *** diesel!
Good for him and easier on his wallet at the pumps im sure...

 

[brandon64]

thats cool, hard to tell from the pics, is it turbo/super charged? is it 2 or 4 stroke? is it electronically or mechanically injected? Closest thing I've seen to that is a detroit 6V-71 ( 6 cyl, V configured, 71 CI per cyl, 2 stroke, supercharged) in an old Ford pick up. I think it's neat, If he would have put a chevy engine of some sort in it, I would be pissed, but that is cool.

 

[EV2 GTX]

This would be why. Truck guys are running in the 10's and thats with a 7000LB truck! Just think what it would do in a 4000LB car. And on top of that you could still drive it every day and get over 20 MPG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ3yzOq6EcE

Interesting project, I suppose. He won't be pulling 10's in that car any time soon...man that's a 3-71 jimmy...they ran a whopping 110 HP at about 9000 rpm....

To each their own...what ever blows your hair back...beefing up the front end to handle a 1500lb motor would be interesting though....

Not knockin' it but whoa......

 

[brandon64]

Interesting project, I suppose. He won't be pulling 10's in that car any time soon...man that's a 3-71 jimmy...they ran a whopping 110 HP at about 9000 rpm....

To each their own...what ever blows your hair back...beefing up the front end to handle a 1500lb motor would be interesting though....

Not knockin' it but whoa......

man who knows more about Detroits than me right here. So it's a 213 CI engine that came out of a GMC truck. 9000 RPM, so I assume it is 2 stroke.

 

[EV2 GTX]

man who knows more about Detroits than me right here. So it's a 213 CI engine that came out of a GMC truck. 9000 RPM, so I assume it is 2 stroke.

All the 71 series engines were 2 stroke...9000 Rpm was a saying we had in the day...'slam your hand in the door, then drive it....drive it like you hate it"...

No doubt in came from Gm, that's who built 'em.


Remember all the buses back in the day...screamin' dwon the road...all smoke no action....

It's a whole other ball game now...

 

[64BEL]

Wow - I wonder if I've seen it all, now. Ah...probably not - LOL. I think Cevidicus said it best.

 

[ssok]

:angryfire:you have GOT to be kidding meeeeeeeeeeeeee. are you friggin cereal????..i hope you photoshopped those pix. destroyed,,,,THAT CAR IS DESTROYED!. as a proud owner of A 1970 ROADRUNNERRRRRRR....i find this disgusting. if youre going to ruin a car ...then go ruin a freekin FORD FOR GODS SAKES....or a CAMARO!...how can you guys say thats cool?....its sacrilegious!!!!


im APAULLED....no really...i am :angryfire:

Let me educate you on a subject. It was called the 1980's.

High school kids all across this country murdered 1970 Road Runners by driving the crap out of them and generally not caring about cars. Flipping them, racing them, off roading them, and killing them in highschool parking lots.

So, someone who probably tossed a junked diesel in a sub $500 (at the time, most likely) car should not be shot. You can drive that car as-is and have car snobs look down on you and hotrodders be your best friend, or pull the motor and but in an big block in again. Really, the car is far from destroyed. It looks to have an OE radiator still.

 

[tpodwdog]

Let me educate you on a subject. It was called the 1980's.

High school kids all across this country murdered 1970 Road Runners by driving the crap out of them and generally not caring about cars. Flipping them, racing them, off roading them, and killing them in highschool parking lots.

So, someone who probably tossed a junked diesel in a sub $500 (at the time, most likely) car should not be shot. You can drive that car as-is and have car snobs look down on you and hotrodders be your best friend, or pull the motor and but in an big block in again. Really, the car is far from destroyed. It looks to have an OE radiator still.

ok slick...let ME educate you....i was one of those kids in the 80's beating the hell out of their 1970 roadrunner....yes...i had one when i was 19.....and like a dumbass i WRECKED IT....( it was wayyyyy more built than the one you see to the left)...SOOOOOOOOO,,,for the past 30 years i have been kicking myself in the ***....for being such an idiot and wrecking the car i loved more than life itself. so ...i bought this purple one you see here. you need to remember...in 1980 ...a 70 roadrunner was only 10 years old....but now...theyre 42 years old....big difference......and destroying one is...is,.,,,is......IS JUST WRONGGGGGGGGGGG....SO VERY WRONGGGGGGGGG.

( this message has been brought to you by the stupid asses like me that should have and didnt take care of something then,,,that they have wanted back for so very long)

lets all sing!

 

[Propwash]

Neato.....So the guys mad scientist. Gotta have some killer mechanical aptitudes to conjour something like that up

 

[MoparBill]

Let me educate you on a subject. It was called the 1980's.

High school kids all across this country murdered 1970 Road Runners by driving the crap out of them and generally not caring about cars. Flipping them, racing them, off roading them, and killing them in highschool parking lots.

So, someone who probably tossed a junked diesel in a sub $500 (at the time, most likely) car should not be shot. You can drive that car as-is and have car snobs look down on you and hotrodders be your best friend, or pull the motor and but in an big block in again. Really, the car is far from destroyed. It looks to have an OE radiator still.

This car was built very recently, not in the 80s! The owner told me that top speed with 3.23s was 55 mph, so he swapped in 2.7s and tall tires and now the 100hp diesel has a top speed of almost 70mph.
Again, I wouldn't do this swap myself, but I didn't see anything that couldn't be undone (except the hood). The engineering is slick; it uses a Mopar 4 speed with the stock mount in correct location, and stock driveshaft. The Mopar pressure plate is inside the diesel bellhousing with a homemade adaptor to mount the trans.