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superduty_59 · 08-02-2012, 01:51 PM

[QUOTE=AlaskaMatt;5383273]Not to be a jerk but this is wrong. It's also a very common mis-conception. The 6.2 is a Detroit diesel. It was designed to be a diesel from the ground up. You are confusing it with the 350 diesel from olds. [QUOTE]

I too like the 6.2/6.5's. Not Cummins power but very reliable. Good luck with your project. Keep us up to date with pics please!

Yea the 6.2 or 6.5 is a designed and built Detriot Diesel (GM used to own) the 5.7 or "350 diesel" wasn't a converted gas engine either. As a cost saving measure on the assembly it was made to be able to be on the same engine assembly line as the gassers and take some of the same parts such as valve covers, oil pans, ect. It was never converted but rather made with some of the same dementions as the gassers to share parts and easily dropped into the same cars without a special line just for the diesels.

08-02-2012, 01:51 PM	#8
superduty_59 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Mount Victory, Ohio Posts: 101	Re: 6.2 diesel swap, like to hear from people who have done it [QUOTE=AlaskaMatt;5383273]Not to be a jerk but this is wrong. It's also a very common mis-conception. The 6.2 is a Detroit diesel. It was designed to be a diesel from the ground up. You are confusing it with the 350 diesel from olds. [QUOTE] I too like the 6.2/6.5's. Not Cummins power but very reliable. Good luck with your project. Keep us up to date with pics please! Yea the 6.2 or 6.5 is a designed and built Detriot Diesel (GM used to own) the 5.7 or "350 diesel" wasn't a converted gas engine either. As a cost saving measure on the assembly it was made to be able to be on the same engine assembly line as the gassers and take some of the same parts such as valve covers, oil pans, ect. It was never converted but rather made with some of the same dementions as the gassers to share parts and easily dropped into the same cars without a special line just for the diesels.