Tercel Diesel

[SkidPlayte]

Did they ever make a Teercel Diesel? I was reading about the 39 mpg Tercels and started daydreaming about a french fry oil(BioDiesel) burning Tercel gedtting high MPG #s while smelling like a Mickey-D's on a Friday night. The bio diesel is a pretty interesting concept.

[Tercel Drifter]

Yes, they did have diesel tercel's in japan. in fact they had turbo diesel tercels in japan.. Someone on tercel online had used a vw rabbit engine to make there tercel use biofuel

[fredk]

fed it carrots

[jcm55]

Yep, in Japan and Europe, you could get a Tercel (aka Corsa) with a 1.5L turbo diesel, called the 1N-T. Apparently it has a reputation for being extremely reliable and gets ~ 50 mpg. I've done a little research, and it looks like this engine has the same mounts and transmission bolt pattern as the 3E-E and 5E-FE, so it should be a bolt-in swap for a 1990-1999 Tercel. Also, it's a mechanically injected engine, so there's no ECU, and no hairy wiring mess to deal with.

There's actually one up on eBay right now for $595:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=8025565118

I recently completed a Toyota 2LII-T turbo diesel swap into my '89 XtraCab truck, and am pretty pleased with the results. I'm really seriously considering a Tercel diesel swap now, for more of a daily driver car.

Write-up on the diesel Toyota truck swap if anyone's interested:

http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/toyotadiesel/

[Dr Tweak]

I've always kicked around the idea of a diesel swap... but since all my mechanical knowledge is based on gasoline engines, I would have a harder time fixing problems with it...

We'll see

[jcm55]

Originally Posted by Dr Tweak

I've always kicked around the idea of a diesel swap... but since all my mechanical knowledge is based on gasoline engines, I would have a harder time fixing problems with it...

Diesels are really pretty easy to work on. There's nothing magic inside Just about every problem with a diesel engine boils down to fuel delivery or compression.

[matrix37495]

this would be a possibility for me. i am taking classes to become a diesel and auto tech. i might look up more about this.

[matrix37495]

what would be neccicary(sp?) to swap this engine into a 93 terc? another question i had is about the transmission...would i need a new transmission? or could i use the same one? i ask because the diesel turns slower than the gas engine.

[TTercel]

I wonder how it runs..does run like the old jetta diesels or is it smooth...how much horsepower and torque...?

[StealthSeo]

i just did the conversions, found the figures on this site:

http://www.cars-directory.net/specs/toyota

If I did my conversions right its about 66 horsepower and about 101 foot Lbs. of torque

[TTercel]

Holy batman StealthSeo kinda late onthe response....

Nice find though

[retiredat44]

I took a Toyota Diesel for a test drive back in about 1987. It was horrible. The one I tried was used, so maybe it was a mechanical problem, the front end was terribly unstable...
it had no power at all.., The Toyota Dealer was selling it.. well mayb e raw torque, but no horsepower at all. I even took it on the freeway. I am no stranger to diesels, I drove huge honking fuel tankers in the past. We used to hold drag races with them... and my brother was a trucker..

but I would seriously consider finding a diesel and use cooking oil like they do in those science documentaries where people convert to using the used oil from fast food joints. If there is a nice decent diesel, that would be cool. But, when the price of diesel was jacked up to $3.00 a gallon, that made people say no way.. forget diesel..

[Tercel GTS]

I think this one is turbo'd.

[StealthSeo]

yeah, its was, that has the specs to most models and years and packeges

[reddo_tercel]

I had one, but we swapped the engine because of all the black smoke that used to come out, it was turbo, but an oil leak forced us to change engines, we put in a 94 tercel engine