boosthappyef

Has anyone ever heard or seen anything about swapping a duramax turbo diesel into a 94 Chevy 2500? Not sure if it's even possible, but I'm seriously considering doing it. I inherited the truck from my dad when he passed away and he was the original owner. It now has 205k on it with the stock motor and drive train, and it's starting to have problems pulling my car trailer. I've looked at just buying a new duramax, but I've got a lot of spare time on my hands, and I figure IF it's possible, why not give it a shot. The biggest factor for wanting to try it, is that I just picked up a 26' wells cargo car trailer, and this thing is f@#$*#$ heavy. The only other option I've looked at, is putting a charged 502 or 572 into it, but need torque more than power, so this is my dilemma. Gas or diesel? Any input would be great.

Smith-02

gas or diesel? go fist your fathers -------.

E-b0la

Diesel....duh.

boosthappyef

First off, my fathers deceased, so that's out of the realm of possibility, not to mention, the whole fornicating dead people, let alone family, isn't something that we do around here. But thanks for you input.

But seriously, I'm not stupid, I know that the torque and horse power potential of the diesel is far greater than the gas, and is better for an everyday driver, but I can't find anyone that has actually done this swap. I've built and driven quite a few big blocks, and I can make some pretty good torque and horse power that way, but for an everyday driver, it's not really practical. The only reason I was considering going with a force inducted bb, was because of the lack of information about doing a duramax swap into a truck like mine. I could just go guy a newer duramax, but I want to do something different. So like I was asking before, has anyone actually heard of or seen this swap done? Or know of anyone that might do this type of thing, that I could talk to?

Smith-02

swap an older powerstroke in, add boost, and call it a day. cheap, fast, reliable, the hmt way

boosthappyef

not a ford fan so much, and chevy's fist attempt at the diesel sucked, but I had thought at one point that maybe a cummins wouldn't be too bad, but their auto tranny's leave something to be desired though. I don't know though, any way I go, I don't see it being easy. Not too worried about fabricating mounts and drive lines and all, my family has a machine shop that can do all that, but mostly the wiring and electronics end of things is what has me worried. That's why I came on here. Seems to be a lot of helpful info here, and figured someone might have heard or seen some one that had tried or done this before.

88dx

its been done read some diesel mags, ive seen duramax's in that era suburbans. Go with the 2nd gen duramax

boosthappyef

That's what I've read, that the 2nd gen is what's best. I'll look into the swaps in suburbans. Thanks for the advise.

SpankedYA!

Why the ---- is this posted here?

Hellbert

for simplicitys sake id say swap an older 12 valve cummins in. they are damn near bomb proof and can very easily be made to make the power especially if you have a pump shop near by. since you say your family owns a machine shop it wouldnt be that big of a deal to make it where a turbo 400 or a built 700r4 (notice the built part...and its the better of the two choices with the OD gear) would bolt up. bell housing adaptor and a custom flywheel slap it together... swaping a duramax in would not only be extremely expensive but incredibly hard. way too much wireing and idk if youve seen a duramax out of the truck but they arent exactly the smallest engines in the world and dwarf a BBC with everything bolted up to them.