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Old 01-22-2009, 11:44 AM
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617 coupled to GM manual transmission

This company is making it possible. Might interest some people here.

http://4x4labs.com/dieselconversions.shtml

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Old 01-22-2009, 11:54 AM
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Bout Time, this will be worth watching Thanks Kerry
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Old 01-22-2009, 12:08 PM
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That is interseting. I'm sure if anyone here does this they will buy the kit and find and do everything themselves. It says for them to do a 'turnkey' installation it will cost anywhere between 10k-25k! I think I'll stick with my automatic for that.
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Old 01-22-2009, 12:13 PM
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This has been posted before. They have been "working" on this adaptor for ever.
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Old 01-22-2009, 09:14 PM
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This has been posted before. They have been "working" on this adaptor for ever.
I guess they still haven't gotten down to the $1000 target price
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Old 01-23-2009, 05:56 AM
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Yep, unfortunately its old news.

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