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I am looking at buying a 4door wrangler and swapping out the stock v6 for a diesel, well the largest turbo diesel I can squeeze in there. Has anyone done this yet? I realize that I will have to swap the whole power train as well. My initial idea was to purchase an H1 Hummer, but they have LOTS of problems. Any help would be appreciated
 
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wait, so a 4bt is a diesel 4 cylinder? What type of vehicle does it come in. 400hp seriously? I have an srt8 cherokee with 500hp. I saw on powerblock one time where a company was putting in the 6.1 into the wrangler. I looked it up and they wanted like 30k for the swap... I don't think so!!!!
 
#8 ·
Yeah all the companies that do that kinda work are just plain retarded...I have built 600 horse motors for less than 2000 bucks.

A 4bt is a 4 cylinder and they come in different versions. Most of them come in stepvans or box trucks. There's usually a few on ebay from time to time. If you are starting from scratch and have the time to search, I would get one with a P pump instead of a rotary pump as they are alot easier to mod.

Here's some light reading for ya

1966 Ford Bronco - Diesel Power Magazine
 
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I did some looking around and noticed how most of them are rated @ 100hp or so. You can seriously squeeze 400hp out of that sucker? I gotta do some more research on this.
here is my last dyno paper. this is with a bosch ve pumped engine that ive turned up, pods , hx35 and 366 gov spring.....small mods but,decent power. the 4bt with the p7100 pump is the way to go...if you can find one
 

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Sure no problem....just look at it like this: a 4bt is exactly the same as a 6bt minus 2 cylinders. Now, that being said there are 6bts making well over 1600+ horsepower which is 266 hp per cylinder. More of the moderate 6bts will be in the 600-700 range which is still 100 horse per cylinder...which would net you 400 horse on a 4 cylinder. Most of it can be achieved for 1500 bucks or so after you get the motor. It involves injection pump work, valve springs, injectors, and turbo mods.
 
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