mechanical stuff...

[DeBortole]

I am not only a engineer, im also a ASE certified medium/heavy duty diesel mechanic. and i know a few things about a few things, also another member "bates" is a auto mechanic and he knows a thing er two about a thing er two. ask away!

 

[Mortikan]

how about a diesel conversion for the bikes?

 

[DeBortole]

how about a diesel conversion for the bikes?

well, im sure it has been done. let me research it some and i will get back to you.

 

[DeBortole]

so i have found many diesel engine convertions on bikes, but my question to u is why? with the price of diesel its a point less convertion... but i can see it on a off road machine as it would give you a great torque advantage!

~Jesse

 

[cahurst2001]

so i have found many diesel engine convertions on bikes, but my question to u is why? with the price of diesel its a point less convertion... but i can see it on a off road machine as it would give you a great torque advantage!

~Jesse

you could convert, not very easily, to biodiesel. just a thought...

 

[DeBortole]

you could convert, not very easily, to biodiesel. just a thought...

thats true you could, but at the cost of a diesel engine... bio-diesel being not much less than regular diesel in the seattle area and all the work you will have to put into a bike it just doesnt add up in my head. one of the major mfg's had to have put out a diesel bike @ one time, i remember polaris having a diesel 4x4 quad in the mid to late 90's.

speaking of motor swaps...

Me and my roomie are putting a engine on a old worksman bicycle, i will try to find pics of the bikes he builds they are wicked! they kinda resemble a cafe racer or a streched out bobber or something. he has a bike that had an engine on it but the engine went so we are replacing it with a engine off a old lawn edger.

~Jesse