Hello again from England

**UK Diesel** · 04-27-2008, 13:53

Hi everyone, Ive had a few 5.7 diesel over the years and sold my last one a little over a year ago and missed it pretty bad so yesterday I went and bought this Chevy Caprice Classic wagon with a 6.2 diesel in it

Shes runs real strong and sounds great

hope to get to know ya cheers for now craig

**More Power** · 04-28-2008, 10:47

Way cool! What sort of fuel economy do you get (local driving & trip)?

Thanks for posting the pics.

Jim

**UK Diesel** · 04-28-2008, 12:20

Hi Jim, I know the guy really well where she came from and he told me it does about 30mpg on a run and about 25 round town.

Ive done about 170 miles now on just over 1/4 of a tank.

It still has its four speed auto which helps.

HH · 04-28-2008, 17:30

Very Cool.

**trbankii** · 04-30-2008, 07:15

Need pictures of the engine bay!

Stupid question, but is this a retrofit or did they actually come stock that way 'cross the pond?

**UK Diesel** · 05-01-2008, 13:19

Originally Posted by trbankii

Need pictures of the engine bay!

Stupid question, but is this a retrofit or did they actually come stock that way 'cross the pond?

Hi, I'll sort that out over the weekend for ya. I was going to put some pics up of the motor as I would like to try to find out how old it is and which type. Am I right in thinking they did a few diffrent models of the 6.2?

It is a retrofit as thew 5.7DX died at some point and the chap thought it would be better just to fit the 6.2 in.

**UK Diesel** · 05-05-2008, 09:49

Originally Posted by trbankii

Need pictures of the engine bay!

Here you go as promised

Only the A/C and cruise was lost in the swap. I don't mind about the A/C as it don't get that hot here in the U.K but I do miss the cruise.

**trbankii** · 05-05-2008, 09:58

Pretty clean little install there!

You should be able to retrofit cruise back into the little beast.

**arveetek** · 05-05-2008, 13:28

Very nice!

How are the cold starts? I can see that you don't have a high-idle function (no wire going to the high idle solenoid), and I can't see if if you have a HPCA (cold timing advance) wire hooked up or not.

Casey

**More Power** · 05-05-2008, 15:30

Great fuel economy! Thanks for sharing...

I copied this thread to the "Conversions" forum to give it a little more coverage in the conversion topics.

Jim

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