Actually, the Olds 5.7 diesel wasn't a bad engine after they beefed up the bottom end and put a roller cam in it in '82. We had several. It took GM several years to work the bugs out of it and by then EFI was close to matching the 5.7 on mileage.
In '86 I drove an '82 Olds 88 to California. Did a 4,000 mile trip on $118 worth of diesel fuel. Don't remember what the price per gallon was back then.
Everyone told me how horrible that diesel was going to perform in the mountains, but once I got the hang of it, I passed an awful lot of gas burners fair and square. All you had to do was hold it in a lower gear with the shifter and keep the rpm up.
I recall one leg of that trip was Fresno back down to LA. We stopped in Bakersfield and went through a winery. It was July, and 108 degrees in Bakersfield. We hit the grade up the Grapevine north of LA at 3pm. It was like parallel parking on the shoulders of the Interstate with car's hoods open and engines steaming. Good cars, Cadillacs, Mercedes, etc. That Olds diesel went right up, no problem.
I kinda developed an affection for that engine, but when things went to front wheel drive, there weren't that many applications for it.
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