I've been reading all your posts regularly since I bought my 76 300D back in May and have found them interesting, detailed, and informative. However, I have not found anyone talking about differences in the NA diesel and the turbo diesels.

For a while now I've pondered the idea of converting my diesel to turbo. Before my Mercedes was my Diesel Rabbit which was incredibly slow compared to my previous Camaro. That was when it all started. I've discarded the idea of turbocharging the Rabbit and am now just pondering turbocharging the 300D.

There are so many turbos out there I am convinced they work well. Up here in Canada there are enough rusty cars that it would not be too hard to find a good running later model turbo for a good price. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas that i could consider in making this conversion? What would i have to do?

is the old engine compatible with later hardware? Is it suitable or strong enough to handle some boost? Could i just richen the mixture of the existing pump to compensate for the extra air? would that completly spoil all fuel mileage?would i have to change just the manifolds and plumbing or would i have to change the injector pump too? Or would i have to change over the whole engine; maybe the tranny too?

Any ideas appreciated. the car is in fairly good original condition. it has 119kmiles. I am not totally set on doing this. if the conversion is easy enough, and easy enough to undo, ill do it. otherwise ill just keep it as stock. Thank you.

Arz