Diesel Swaps Why aren't they more popular? I decides if

they are literally meme tier now

they were cool at first but now theyre meh from so many doing them

id suggest not spending thousands of dollars to have slightly cheaper fuel

>>17400373
Diesel motors are heavy, expensive and shit at making HP due to RPM restrictions.

They definitely have their place, but aren't a good swap for performance or even everyday driving

>>17400395
Weird because I've seen diesel swaps on a Charger & Camero, and they seem to be plenty fast & powerful
What makes them different?
https://youtu.be/C3bBiqIWffY

swaping a 1jz or an sr or an ls would be better in every way except special snowfake points

>>17400417
That video gave me autism.

But I imagine those swaps would be astronomically expensive as opposed to a traditionally swap and would come with a slew of problems.

Is it really worth that much money to "roll coal" in a 25 year old nip sports car? And after all that work to be beat out by a LS1 swap for about $5k

Diesel swaps are fun in straight lines or from pulling at normal road speed in high gear but other than that they are garbage for any kind of performance driving unless you want to hate your life.

>>17400417
that narration is cringy as fuck

>>17400373

i drive a diesel car in CA

honestly, I love it, it gets wonderful fuel economy, pulls steadily, i enjoy the manual transmission too but it's... not fast. turbodiesels can be pretty fun on the right platform, older golfs or TDIs or turbodiesels but it's not really worth the trouble of going out of your way for a swap in a car that already has better gas engine options

if the car was originally diesel, it's fine to tune it and it might end up being fast and fun

but converting a gasoline sportscar to diesel is just silly

>>17400578
far none most informative comment
thanks anon