Bio Motorcyle Trike...yes I said bio!

[Greasy]

Well, I've never been accused of being normal. My name is Daemien, the screen name "Greasy" is because I want to convert my motorcycle triek to run on vegetable oil. I am married, no kids, great wife, one cat, I work as a eBay reseller in St.Louis, MO. and sell books online to help finance my trike project.

I already built the trike based on a 73 VW Drivetrain and it's fun to drive. I did some research and got really interested in building a bio car. Well I came up with the idea of converting my trike to Jetta power with an adapter then converting the Jetta Diesel engine to run on waste vegetable oil.

So I am now saving money for the parts, I need a Jetta Diesel engine, an adapter and enough beer to feed a small army so I can bribe my friends to come over and help (they would anyway).

I have one HUGE question that I can't seem to get any reponse from the Jetta board.

Will an adapter made to mate a gas Jetta engine to a VW Bug work with a Diesel Jetta engine?

In other words, at the point that the gas engine and diesel engine connect to the Jetta transmission, are they the same?

[boschmann]

There should be no problems as they are physically the same. On some years the only difference was the size of the clutch & flywheel, but that is easy enough to deal with.