Sell my Avant and buy a TDI poonetta Wagon *or* swap a TDI into my Avant - discuss please! ;-)
10-17-2007, 04:05 AM
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Sell my Avant and buy a TDI poonetta Wagon *or* swap a TDI into my Avant - discuss please! ;-)
I think TDI Avant Quattro manual FTMFW....
I am SERIOUSLY considering this very very soon. A good friend and I are going in together on a professionally built biodiesel production system and given the state of the world it seems to make a lot of sense.
I know I'd give up some (a bunch) of power... I'm OK with that really. Torque wins the race. ;-)
It is either this or step away from Audi *cries a little bit* and I just don't think I can or want to do that at all. I lub AWD and my only other options that really work with the dags is an SUV of some sort with a nice diesel swap - older Land/Range Rover, older Jeep, older Toyota 4 Runner etc etc. <--- not too excited about any of those really. I have grown used to comfort after years of old rattle-box Jeeps and old iron.
I am SERIOUSLY considering this very very soon. A good friend and I are going in together on a professionally built biodiesel production system and given the state of the world it seems to make a lot of sense.
I know I'd give up some (a bunch) of power... I'm OK with that really. Torque wins the race. ;-)
It is either this or step away from Audi *cries a little bit* and I just don't think I can or want to do that at all. I lub AWD and my only other options that really work with the dags is an SUV of some sort with a nice diesel swap - older Land/Range Rover, older Jeep, older Toyota 4 Runner etc etc. <--- not too excited about any of those really. I have grown used to comfort after years of old rattle-box Jeeps and old iron.
10-17-2007, 04:20 AM
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Quite the opposite! I LOVE IT!
Just having the need/desire to be a little more "tree-hugger" for the long term. Plus it would be cool -- ;-)
I love diesels, always have.
I love diesels, always have.
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10-17-2007, 04:47 AM
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Common thought, not really true ------------>
With the new diesel even less true, if true at all.
Bio is either a recycled oil (waste veg oil) or virgin oil - but it's completely renewable and uses a product that as it grows is cleaning the air/soil/etc so the overall impact is close to zero (as long as it's produced without chemicals and the like)
Nothing is perfect, over population and consumption are the number one/two issues.... but now we get going down a whole new path and this is not "off-topic" - ;-P
Bio is either a recycled oil (waste veg oil) or virgin oil - but it's completely renewable and uses a product that as it grows is cleaning the air/soil/etc so the overall impact is close to zero (as long as it's produced without chemicals and the like)
Nothing is perfect, over population and consumption are the number one/two issues.... but now we get going down a whole new path and this is not "off-topic" - ;-P
10-17-2007, 04:48 AM
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They are dirty, in a different way. They emit less 'greenhouse' gas than gas...
but more particulate.
And if synthetic fuel isn't carbon based, there are NO carbon emissions from what I've been told.
And if synthetic fuel isn't carbon based, there are NO carbon emissions from what I've been told.
10-17-2007, 04:50 AM
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Yup, I agree 150% the B5 is much nicer than any 'dub.
Thing about it is that there is a TDI Passat at a semi-local salvage yard - i could rob all the wire harness and misc parts i need. I'd need a motor as the one in the car got hit really hard in the accident, maybe it could be rebuilt though.