MC engine swap minutia

[Huw Powell]

> > if you delete AC, hang it where the evaporator used to be, where it is
> > easy to get to.
> 
> Ha!  Come next summer, I may be asking how to add a second
> a/c!  I'll definitely be trying to keep the a/c. 

that is gonna make the whole project a lot tougher.  I think Marc wanted
AC and ended up giving up on it.

> I'm probably going to
> have to have exceptional cooling capacity as well, so further down
> the road I may be treading some new ground.  It get's hot here, and
> I like to have plenty o' margin o' safety.

how about a giant expansion tank for greater overall coolant volume?


> > and as far as your harness issues, Marc Swanson took notes while I
> > chopped up the redundant stuff on his donor harness - whether they were
> > in a language known to man or on his web site in any form is another
> > issue!
> 
> Cool, I'll check it out.  That reminds me of another series of
> questions.  Is the autocheck stuff just lost in the swap?  Is the
> check engine light the only thing that gets hooked up?

I think we deleted the autocheck stuff - hard to tell how much, really,
since I think some of it runs thru the ECU.  I really don't know.

I think as cool as the MC/4kq swap seems, it is really a tough kludge,
due to the tendency of later Audis (type 44/89 etc) to combine far too
many things in each individual harness, and the nightmare plumbing
issues.  but it is still cool.  as cool as a supercharged small block
V8? no, but cool in its own right.

-- 
Huw Powell

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