Serious brain fart!!! Could it work??? Yall tell me!!!

75slant6 said

LOL!!! Ben, I'm completely sober!! :D

TrailBeast, please do tell what has to be changed as I don't know that much about diesels...yet! :snakeman:

And 67, I talked to my bro in law and he said a big reason the 350 diesels sucked was they used week pushrods.... and a 350 :finga:

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Pushrods don't explain all the cracked heads and blown headgaskets they had.

For starters diesels need a compression ratio of about 22:1 if I remember correctly.
Diesels fire when the compression and temperature are high enough, not by spark.
Then it would need a (timed) diesel injector pump, which means it would either have to be electronically (computer) controled or physically connected to the cam or crank by gears or chain.
Spark plugs might be able to be replaced by injectors (maybe) but the head would have to have injectors either way.
Head gasket would have to be a monster to hold that compression back.

That's just the big stuff :D