Upgrading the old 74 fox

[Larry C Leung]

Ah, well, hadn't looked into this myself. I guess that'll kill my idea of
putting a Golf/Jetta/Passat2 TDI into a Quantum Syncro. Bummer. 

LL - NY

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Ti Kan <ti at amb.org> writes:
>Larry C Leung writes:
>> The '87-90 1.8 liter 16V in the A2 GTi, Jetta GLi and 4 cyl Passat's 
>use
>> CIS, so should be a reasonable swap, 123 BHP, 124 ft-lb of torque. 
>The
>> 2.0 16V A2 GTi or Jetta GLi should fit, and still have adequate 
>cooling.
>> 134 BHP, 131 lb-ft of torque.
>
>The 16V VW engines (all except the Scirocco) are not a drop-in 
>either.
>The throttle body is on the wrong side of the intake manifold, so 
>would
>require some creative plumbing.  The Scirocco manifold has the 
>throttle
>body on the correct side, but is angled funny and will not fit the 
>Audi
>factory CIS air boot.  Assuming, of course, that the Audi Fox in 
>question
>has CIS.  If not, then there is a lot more transplanting to do.  
>Moreover,
>the battery would interfere with the 16V manifold, so the battery 
>would
>have to be relocated.
>
>I looked into all this while working on my 4000 project...
>
>It's best to start with a newer Audi with the 4-cylinder engine in 
>the
>correct (logitudinal) orientation, so that the hassles of plumbing
>and other ancillaries do not become problems.  Audi did sell a 16V 
>4-cyl
>version of the Audi 80 in Europe, but sourcing parts from that would 
>be
>difficult.
>
>-Ti
>01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
>84 5000S 2.1 turbo
>80 4000 2.0
>96 A4 2.8 quattro (sold but not forgotten)
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