82 Olds Diesel

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ad said: 1982 Oldsmobile Regency 98 Diesel 142,000 miles I received this car from my father's estate. I don't know a lot about it. It DOES NOT run or have a battery. Body is pretty solid for it's age. Has some rust spots but not bad. I do know in 2010 he had $2000 worth of work done on it, but not sure what that was. I have no clue what is wrong with it. It may take $100 to get it running or $5000, I just don't know. I don't want to mess with it. I believe the engine is a 5.0 or 5.7. It has not run for over a year. The interior is in pretty good shape except for the drivers side door. If you have any questions or would like to take a look, feel free to call, text, email or send smoke signals. $500 obo

I wonder if it comes with a spare set of heads. If not, it should, you will need them.

You can run faster than an Oldsmobile diesel.

And you probably should.

How did that thing go 142,000 miles?!?!?!?

Malaise-era GM at it's finest. My mom had a 1980 Toronado with that 350 diesel. It was pure, unadulterated E36 M3.

Good head studs and head gaskets fixed most issues with them. Had an 80 Park Ave... injector pump was weak and it was still pretty good. Nothing like 30mpg in a 2 and a half ton beast with couch seating for 7.

Can't you just throw a gas tree fitty in?

In reply to spitfirebill:

You can actually build a very strong Olds 350 with the diesel block and crank IIRC.

Friend of mine had one of those in high school. And in 1988 it felt old and crappy, another 28 years must have it feeling epically bad. We taunted him mercilessly for having the slowest car in the county.

Why do I want to buy this and stuff a 5.3 truck engine in it? MAybe put some control arms, coilovers and bigger brakes with some 17x9's?

I think someone needs to buy it and swap in a later GM diesel engine like the 6.5 turbo.

As a teenager I changed two of those over to gas. People would give them away after dying on the side of the road. One of them needed a different tranny shortly after the swap. I don't remember any problems with the swap.

In reply to Kenny_McCormic:

I do believe I remember that too.

Hmmmmmm ........ http://www.ebay.com/itm/2001-CHEVY-SILVERADO-COMPLETE-ENGINE-TRANSMISSION-LIFTOUT-/161769969459?hash=item25aa3dd733:g:MEwAAOSwjVVVrl5o&vxp=mtr

This makes it challenge money.

Isn't this the reason diesels have failed in America?

The Olds and early Chevy truck diesels pretty much did it.

Grtechguy wrote: Isn't this the reason diesels have failed in America?

Yup, I was coming here to post that.

Diesel subcompacts like Escorts and Chevettes didn't help, either, what with their 20-second 0-60 times and all. But yeah, the GM small blocks were probably the biggest thing.

Convert that diesel 350 to gas, stroke it, toss a massive cam and some early factory 350 heads on it, and pull the damn wheels every time you hit the gas!

In reply to SilverFleet:

Or use stock crank, do whatever is needed to get the compression down, and boost to the moon.

It's gone. Too bad, would have been fun to enrage the internet by getting the diesel going again.

Esoteric Nixon wrote: It's gone. Too bad, would have been fun to enrage the internet by getting the diesel going again.

I like the cut of your jib!

(Also, I'll be disappointed if your post doesn't make the magazine )

Tom_Spangler wrote: Diesel subcompacts like Escorts and Chevettes didn't help, either, what with their 20-second 0-60 times and all. But yeah, the GM small blocks were probably the biggest thing.

At least the Escorts and Chevettes would actually run.

Old diesels were an acquired taste. They only got popular recently when they were made less diesel-ish with electronics etc. And turbocharging which really brought them on.