If one can put a small-block in the 240 engine bay, why not a Perkins or Yanmar diesel?

I'd love to be able to use biodiesel in my Volvo, both because it's environmentally wise and because it's cheap to do so.

Anybody ever hear of this being done?

I'm not interested in the old-style clattery smokers, including Volvo's own earlier diesel, but the more modern ones like the ones VW uses, which are clean, quiet, and torquey.

It seems to me that other than fuel management, the electronics should be very easy, and the fuel management is probably largely included with the engine.

So it would be a matter of finding a way to mount it, adapt it to either the volvo trans or another trans, widen the fuel filler, and of course change whatever fuel fittings need to be changed.

I'm betting a 240 could get 40 MPG with a manual trans and a possible regear to account for the torque/horsepower curve being different.

Whaddya think?