{"id":19413,"date":"2017-11-16T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:47:43","slug":"1968-charger-with-a-mercedes-diesel-inline-six-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19413","title":{"rendered":"1968 Charger with a Mercedes Diesel Inline-Six Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19414\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=19414\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 Inline-Six 03\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 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-03.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?resize=620%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1968 Charger with a Mercedes OM606 Inline-Six\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?resize=620%2C465&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luke Dale and his team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselpumpuk.com\/\">Diesel Pump UK<\/a> continue work on &#8220;Vin Diesel&#8221; 1968 Dodge Charger project. The Charger is powered by a Mercedes 3.0 L OM606 diesel inline-six and BorgWarner 9180 turbocharger. The transmission will be a full manual Gearstar Pro 4l85E transmission. Since our previous update the team installed the engine, cooling system, fuel system, finished fabricating the exhaust manifold, and started upgrading the differential. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDieselPumpUK%2Fvideos%2F851247175056916%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%2F852047268310240%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%2F852620381586262%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>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DieselPumpUK\/\">Diesel Pump UK FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Dale and his team at Diesel Pump UK continue work on &#8220;Vin Diesel&#8221; 1968 Dodge Charger project. The Charger is powered by a Mercedes 3.0 L OM606 diesel inline-six and BorgWarner 9180 turbocharger. The transmission will be a full manual Gearstar Pro 4l85E transmission. Since our previous update the team installed the engine, cooling&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19413\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1968 Charger with a Mercedes Diesel Inline-Six Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19414,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1968-Charger-with-a-Mercedes-OM606-Inline-Six-03.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19331,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=19331","url_meta":{"origin":19413,"position":0},"title":"Building a 1968 Charger with a Mercedes Diesel Inline-Six","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"When Luke Dale from Diesel Pump UK heard Roadkill was coming to the UK he decided to build his own Roadkill project. 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