johnsims said:
Norm, in all seriousness, I had no idea even old diesels werent carburated? I guess the main thing I was getting at with this site`s 4bt, wasnt just injected, but pretty much "plug and play", with it`s own computer. The
hot rod crowd must really love all the plug and play stuff for cars now.
Yes, diesel has no carb, spark plugs, or distributor ( in the conventional sense) the fuel-air mixture is detonated by pressure, not spark.
Diesels have always had injectors. It takes a very high compression ratio to creat that explosion causing pressure, making diesels inherently louder that gasoline engines. However, great strides in sound control and emissions have been taken with diesels in the last 10 years. Diesels run cleaner than gas, ( their only problem is particles of soot, which is why, they now have urea injection systems, as one way to scrub the exhaust gasses.)
Pretty much every engine/transmission, is now computer managed, I'm not sure it qualifies as plug and play, it's a bit more complicated than that, but as long as you have the matching, engine/ trans and computer, it's a lot easier to get the transplant to run right.
Basically, when we perform a Hemi into a Wrangler, transplant, we use the Grand Cherokee computer and convince the Computer it's in a 2012 Grand Cherokee. Then all we have to adjust for is tire diameter and gear ratio.
Plug and play, kind of demeans the thought process and hard work involved, but yes, In a sense it is.
