Peter,
In my enthusiasm to share my experience and to help, I may have inadvertently discouraged you. This is just my one and only experience. You MAY have an unusually well fit engine and manufacturing tolerances may have put the throttle spot on for your particular engine. Seeing as you have the engine, the head and diesel experience nearby, why not just give it a go? After all, Frank had better luck than I did and it could have been my relative lack of experience with diesel. I can guarantee that the experience will be informative and entertaining.
You can always convert back to glow.