{"id":54,"date":"2007-07-15T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T02:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-07-15T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T02:25:41","slug":"duramax-in-a-buick-grand-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Duramax in a Buick Grand National"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Diesel
\nThis Buick Grand National<\/a> has been swapped with a Duramax<\/a>. The main forum topic on the car states it does a 1\/8 mile drag in 8.258 secs @ 84.81mph. Jalopnik’s article<\/a> asks why would a person do such a swap while also linking to the much debated article “truth about diesels<\/a>“. If the creator is after taking a challenge and making something different then I agree with some commenters, why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Buick Grand National has been swapped with a Duramax. The main forum topic on the car states it does a 1\/8 mile drag in 8.258 secs @ 84.81mph. Jalopnik’s article asks why would a person do such a swap while also linking to the much debated article “truth about diesels“. If the creator is… Read More »Duramax in a Buick Grand National<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1796,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=1796","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":0},"title":"1966 Nova Wagon with Twin Turbo Duramax","author":"swaptastic","date":"April 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Diesel engines are finding themselves in more engine swap projects recently. 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