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Thu, 24 February 2011 10:19

jhb1

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Hi Gord

We have been down this topic road before myself included the cost of a decent diesel conversion doing the work yourself is going to approach 10-15K and take you at least a year to do and even if you increase your mileage by 50% the payback is going to be many many miles down the road. I had thought of using a V10TDI for Volks but just a good used engine and ECU harness is in the 12-14K range plus adapters etc.. a well tuned 455 will get you where you want to go and can be fixed by Bubba on the side of the road.
JMHO

gordh1 wrote on Thu, 24 February 2011 11:03

Hi Phil,
Curiously, I was just writing with a colleague up here in Canada - as I'm not a GMC Motorhome owner yet, I was writing that the biggest issue I have with it at the moment is that (sorry but...) "boat anchor" 455. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_V8_engine

My intent would be to leave from here for a couple of months each winter and go waaayyyy south - that would be a $2k fuel bill alone, and that's just silly, not to mention being terribly environmentally irresponsible.

There's so many FWD engines available today that can produce pretty close if not more torque and hp, and even the worst, gets double the fuel mileage.

Bottom line for me is the 455 has to go. It's one thing to pour loads of money in to a coach to make it to your taste, but a whole other thing when you're pouring money in to it at such a rate it's no longer worth doing what you wanted it to do.

BTW, I did see an ad (Craigslist I think) just this week, for someone with a GM looking for info on proven diesel conversions... = I would think if any of the GMC Motorhome suppliers were in tune, they would be thinking really hard about offering some conversion to <whatever>, that would keep these from becoming garden sheds.

Gord Wink

John H. Bell
77 Royale; QuadBag,Manny OneTon,Honda EV4010, FITech
Montreal Qc.

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