Small diesel engine needed

 Hi all, sorry about such the long post,but at school we are building a Super Mileage Car in our pre-engineering class that my dad teaches. This is the first year to do the super mileage car so we just went in the stock class, well i have been pestering dad since we started about doing a diesel powered unlimited class car. I am also in the Diesel Tech program where i have learned a whole lot about the stock side of diesel engines but our teachers is very into the performance side of things,gas and diesel so we get to hear and learn a lot of the performance ideas that did or didnt work and what can and cant be done. All this has got me thinking, the biggest problem is weight, so i talked to my teacher in diesel class and he suggested using a small single or twin cylinder perkapiller (A.K.A. Perkins built engine with yellow paint and cat stickers on it and sold as a cat) or kubota or something like that and having as much of the internal parts such as pistons,rods etc be made out of aluminum and the lesser strained parts like the valve cover,etc. be made out of fiber glass or carbon fiber like the body of the car. so all of this to ask whats your alls opinion on doing something like that and where in gods green earth can i find a small diesel like that as i have yet to find ANYTHING that really fits the bill,my teacher has one of the perkapillers but hes keeping it to repower and UTV someday, does anyone have any ideas as to aquiring one??  

Thanks and godbless, Cort Lamey



Edited by CBL95 - 03 Feb 2012 at 3:28pm

There was a local guy selling some refer engines on craigs list awhile back. If I see the ad again I'll let you know.

I don't know anything about diesel engines and can't help you find a source.  However, I do want to encourage you and your classmates in seeking inovation.  You and your generation will be the ones who find ways out of the messes our generation and the ones that came before us made on this planet. Go for it!  

I also see them on CL on occasion.  For Sale: Farm and Garden.

Burden's Surplus Center at Lincoln, NE shows small diesels in their catalog, and on line at www.surpluscenter.com

Gerald J.

I'm 700 miles or more from Winslow, IN so it's probably too far away, but I have a Yanmar diesel on a generator that I would like to sell.  The engine runs nice but my camper doesn't like the power the generator puts out.  It will run the air compressor all day but my refrigerator stays on gas because it doesn't see the AC properly.  I have one of the quiet Honda inverters now so I would like to sell this one.

F2L912 Deutz?  Might be too heavy, not sure if you could find a smaller single cylinder, you moght check with Stauffer Diesel in New Holland, Pa.

There's a 10HP diesel, made in China( WHERE else...) that I always figured might be nice in a 'G'. About $500 Canadian bucks when on sale.Standard 1" horizontal shaft, electric start,complete.

Don't know if this is bigger than you want but google Glens Surplus Shelby Oh. and look for Continental diesel. He has them with or without transmission and I was there Sunday and two were on the floor then. I even tried to talk Mama into one for her Tracker but she wouldn't go for it. I think they are Mil surplus.

Thanks Tom but 200lb is just little to heavy,275 lb is the target total weight with driver. I believe i have found what i, a lombardini 3.7 horse 56lb recoil start and thank the good Lord Jesus it a DIRECT INJECTION!!! not a condemed IDI.          Now the only problem is finding someone that carries them hmmmm, im going to start monday calling all the full line kohlar dealers since kohlar is eho imports them from Italy