I want to...Just can't afford it.

One of these weekends I might get around to doing the tranny swap in it.

This weekend I fixed the headlight issue, replaced a stripped wheel stud, washed all the green crap off of it from sitting for a year, and put 4 new tires on it.

current trans is a 4-spd manual. I have another S10 that doesn't run and is missing the dash and nose pieces that I have as a parts truck, and it has the 5-spd manual in it...

going to swap that trans into my S10 so I have overdrive. should improve fuel economy quite a bit for freeway driving.

 

It's got a little 4 banger in it, right?

And since when do you care about fuel economy?!

 

yep, 2.5L 4 banger.

and 2 reasons...1 the thing is near hitting redline to do 70 on the freeway lol and 2 it gets 16mpg as is right now...16MPG from a 4 banger! my other S10 I sold to a buddy that had the same motor, same exact rear end (because I swapped it before I sold it lol) and a 5-spd got 24mpg.

that overdrive gear makes a huge difference in economy when you have to drive at freeway speeds. makes no difference in town driving, but freeway speeds it makes a near 10mpg difference to lower the RPM at highway speeds.

car manufacturers have just caught on to that idea more recently, and you are now seeing 6-spd and 7-spd transmissions popping up everywhere with double overdrives...

You figure out what RPM the engine is most efficient at and you gear it to run at that RPM on the freeway...

 

I wonder what a 4BT would do in that little truck.

 

make it ride on bump stops lol...those things are frikken HEAVY! it is almost literally a 6BT with 2 cylinders chopped off... same piston size, same crank size and cylinder size, same rod size and block size -2 cylinders...

so they are very tall and very heavy. could probably get 35mpg with it in an S10 though

I would be more interested in those new 2.8L cummins engines though! but they are still too new, so waaaaay too expensive for my blood...

but talk about a perfect engine size... far lighter than the old 4bt's, and efficiency in the S10 would probably be in the 45-55mpg range.

 

That's true. I don't think you could even find springs stiff enough to make it ride correctly, and that's if you didn't bend/crack the frame. How much can you turn up the 2.5 Cummins?

 

I was off a bit...its a 2.8L. and probably quite a bit with injectors and a turbo...nobody makes a programmer for one though, so it would have to be custom programmed from a shop capable of doing that. In all honesty though, I wouldn't care if it was stock...just getting double the s10's fuel economy and being a rattler would be satisfaction enough

 

This the one you're talking about?
http://www.dieselpowermag.com/tech/d...diesel_engine/

 

that looks like the right engine, but this was the one I was thinking of:

http://cumminsengines.com/qsf28-tier...es=20#overview

offroad version without the emissions junk. sure its only 75hp, 221tq, but the gas motor in the S10 doesn't have much more power than that if you can even call it more power... (92hp, 130tq)

 

Nice. That would be fun I think. Might have too much power for that little S10 though.