Step by step Isuzu diesel conversion

Smoggy wrote: Many thanks for doing this thread Dave. I will be having a go soon myself

and if it goes well you may be doing mine also

Thanks Guys for your comment and also to Martin for putting it on the front page

Have turned turbo compressor housing and reffited manifold you will need to replace the dump valve acuator pipe as will not be long enough. Found a piece of blue silicon hose to reconect it and some M5 socket head cap screws to replace the god awfull Torx screws fitted on the IHI turbo housing. Whole job realistically took just over an hour to do luckily Isuzu use metal laminated gaskets that you can just re use them so the cost of doing this mod was virtually nothing

Keeping an eye on this,good thread,i love the 1.7 td izuzu motors,my last van was a 51 plate astra dti,the dti gave up so dropped a 1.7 td in with 200k on and was sweet,went well after fettling the pump and boost,and ran 50/50 veg oil.cant go wrong with them.

Quick update on costs so far as weighed the Vauxhall Astra shell in this morning im doing this conversion on a budget so here are the figures so far
Car £300 inc delivery from Bridgewater not bad considering that 120 miles from Denmead

Sold wheels and tyres for £50
Tail gate gas struts for a £10
Pumped 40 litres of diesel out of the tank a rite bonus £56
2 Brand new wiper blades now residing on my Hilux must be worth £10
Scrap value from EMR £141.50

Total £267.50 back for car and bits sold giving a spent cost so far of £32.50 for the engine and ancillaries i think that has panned out fairly well

Dave cc wrote: Quick update on costs so far as weighed the Vauxhall Astra shell in this morning im doing this conversion on a budget so here are the figures so far
Car £300 inc delivery from Bridgewater not bad considering that 120 miles from Denmead

Sold wheels and tyres for £50
Tail gate gas struts for a £10
Pumped 40 litres of diesel out of the tank a rite bonus £56
2 Brand new wiper blades now residing on my Hilux must be worth £10
Scrap value from EMR £141.50

Total £267.50 back for car and bits sold giving a spent cost so far of £32.50 for the engine and ancillaries i think that has panned out fairly well

At this rate you'll be making money!

Think ill be going this route with my g13bb jimmy

Watching your right up eagerly