Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

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[antmnte]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

Why wouldnt you !!? Put it in a huge sedan too so we can drive nice size cars as well !! No brainer I would think.

[BBR]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

Ford and Dodge both had one as well, but shelved theirs too. ???

[dieselgeek]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

I hope chevy brings this out, the swap and hotrodding potential are huge.

[Schtauffer]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

Reserve one for me, please. I'll be due for a new truck in a few years.

[Darren N.]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

They better not be teasing us again. I was genuinely pissed off when the announcement of its cancellation was made. >

Good Lord, I want one baaaaaaaaaaaad. I would like to stuff one in a '70-'72 GM A/G body or a '78-'88 A/G body. :o

[tiresmoke!]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

Why wouldnt you !!? Put it in a huge sedan too so we can drive nice size cars as well !! No brainer I would think.

Aside from powering the colonnade-styled cars(Nice Monte, BTW), this could ressurect quite a few of the Olds 98 diesel abominations.

Big, comfy cars they were(sucky build quality, but not gonna get into that here)...with that kinda stump-pulling torque, who the hell needs a truck to tow the boat to the lake?

[horsewidower]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

I wonder how much it weighs?

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

diesel stinks

I don't think cali will let many more diesels out there

[consulcapri]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

[quote=SpiderGearsMan ]
diesel stinks

I don't think cali will let many more diesels out there


Diesels don't have to stink. Keep an open mind. Small diesels are ok.
I live in Monaco Europe and most diesels in Europe now have special exhaust filters fitted which are so clean you can stand behind them on start up and theres no smoke or smell whatsoever. They don't even clatter like they used to.
My runaround car is a Mercedes A-class with a 2 litre turbodiesel auto. I have driven 1200 miles in it without getting a sore arse, it does 120mph no problem, good acceleration, all the toys on it and thrashing the nads off it I still get 45 to 48 mpg. At europrices for fuel (gas and diesel is 5.50 euros per gallon, we have to consider this type of car.
By all means keep a hobby car with a big V8 in it, but if fuel prices in USA rise up, it's worth considering a diesel as a runaround.

[IRONHEAD]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

well as seen as , all the money on engineering it was already spent..
why not.. and then drop it in the s-10 (or whatever it is/will be called by then)
and have the biggest tow rating on a small lite.. truck.. that is liveable in city life..

[Barry Donovan]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

I was surprised when it backshelfed.

the 4.5 could do what the 5.7 cars are.. in a car. it could go alot of places..
they do not think RWD anymore, but ... imagine how many would have hung onto the bigger actual four passenger car with this engine. I bet a guru hits the big 40mpg with it...
slap the sideways ricer int o the midget abyss forever.


now a benz crank gas v8 at 3.6 liters... anytime now. ;D

I just read, coinicdentally of a guy studying a fleet of 6 liter diesel... all of them around 10mpg. makes no sense what so ever...
the 4.5 is needed. I be the little tow truck company local would even run it...

[IRONHEAD]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

put the 4.5 oilburner in the new rear drive cop car..
as they are used none stop and thats what those engine do best..

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Report: GM Considers Dusting off the Formerly Abandoned 4.5L Mini Duramax

[quote=consulcapri ]

diesel stinks

I don't think cali will let many more diesels out there


Diesels don't have to stink. Keep an open mind. Small diesels are ok.
I live in Monaco Europe and most diesels in Europe now have special exhaust filters fitted which are so clean you can stand behind them on start up and theres no smoke or smell whatsoever. They don't even clatter like they used to.
My runaround car is a Mercedes A-class with a 2 litre turbodiesel auto. I have driven 1200 miles in it without getting a sore arse, it does 120mph no problem, good acceleration, all the toys on it and thrashing the nads off it I still get 45 to 48 mpg. At europrices for fuel (gas and diesel is 5.50 euros per gallon, we have to consider this type of car.
By all means keep a hobby car with a big V8 in it, but if fuel prices in USA rise up, it's worth considering a diesel as a runaround.

we have dpl filters and urea too


still stink
still totally suck to work on
too much enviro-stalinists here in the USA
and you will neversee offshore drilling in these parts again
8 dollar a gallon gas around the corner and no more diesels , not even if they are deep fried and dipped in chocolate
cali is trying to shut down non dpl diesels now
here in sucka jersey , port o newark will ban non dpl diesels starting next year