{"id":19331,"date":"2017-11-10T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19331"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:49:11","slug":"building-a-1968-charger-with-a-mercedes-diesel-inline-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19331","title":{"rendered":"Building a 1968 Charger with a Mercedes Diesel Inline-Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-01.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19332\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=19332\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-01.jpg?fit=720%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 Inline-Six 01\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 diesel inline-six&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-01.jpg?fit=720%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-01.jpg?resize=620%2C517&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 diesel inline-six\" width=\"620\" height=\"517\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-01.jpg?resize=620%2C517&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-01.jpg?resize=600%2C500&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-01.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Luke Dale from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselpumpuk.com\/\">Diesel Pump UK<\/a> heard Roadkill was coming to the UK he decided to build his own Roadkill project. Luke will be taking his prized 1968 Dodge Charger and swapping the small-block V8 for a Mercedes 3.0 L OM606 diesel inline-six. The transmission will be a Gearstar Pro 4l85E converted to full manual.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDieselPumpUK%2Fvideos%2F848671651981135%2F&#038;width=600&#038;show_text=false&#038;height=336&#038;appId\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDieselPumpUK%2Fvideos%2F849330478581919%2F&#038;width=600&#038;show_text=false&#038;height=336&#038;appId\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-02.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19333\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=19333\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-02.jpg?fit=720%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 Inline-Six 02\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 diesel inline-six&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-02.jpg?fit=720%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-02.jpg?resize=620%2C827&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 diesel inline-six\" width=\"620\" height=\"827\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-02.jpg?resize=620%2C827&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-02.jpg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-02.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DieselPumpUK\/\">Diesel Pump UK FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Luke Dale from Diesel Pump UK heard Roadkill was coming to the UK he decided to build his own Roadkill project. Luke will be taking his prized 1968 Dodge Charger and swapping the small-block V8 for a Mercedes 3.0 L OM606 diesel inline-six. The transmission will be a Gearstar Pro 4l85E converted to full&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19331\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building a 1968 Charger with a Mercedes Diesel Inline-Six<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charger"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19413,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19413","url_meta":{"origin":19331,"position":0},"title":"1968 Charger with a Mercedes Diesel Inline-Six Update","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Luke Dale and his team at Diesel Pump UK continue work on \"Vin Diesel\" 1968 Dodge Charger project. 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