New diesel engines into older cars

[Geraint Lloyd]

the 4 cylinder VAG engines have a vacuum pump where
the distributor is 
on the petrol engines.
this drives the brake servo etc. i guess that the 5
cyls have a similar 
arrangement. you could look for a 5cyl tdi vw
eurovan/caravelle (front 
engine)

the blocks are essentially the same for 4 and 5 cyl
tdis vs 4 and 5 cyl 
petrol respectively.
i fitted a few gti engines to 1980's diesel
transporters because of 
this. it made the engine mounting, clutch and water
hoses easy to sort 
out ' cos everything was
OEM. no fabrication required apart from the exhaust.
there is a company 
in the uk that fits 1.9 TDI engines into golf 2's
using the same assumption.
the easiest way to go for a 4000 (it is a 4 pot audi
80 isn't it? i've 
just arrived from europe and don't understand the 4000
/ 5000 thing) 
would be to use a 1.6 golf 2 turbo diesel head and
injection system on a 
1.9 tdi bottom end.
This has been done before in the uk, by TSR 
(http://www.tsr-performance.com/  only works with
MSIE)

you may need to do something about the clutch though,
with all that 
extra torque.
a pal of mine fitted a 110bhp 1.9TDI in a 1990 vw
camper (rear engine) 
it worked v.well, but the standard clutches didn't
last very long!

geraint

Stephen Arbaugh wrote:
> Ok, with all this diesel talk, I'll share an idea
I've had kicking around
> for a bit. My '86 4kq is still in pretty good
condition, around 150k miles,
> no real problems anywhere. When the motor does
finally get tired, are there
> any currently available diesels (TDI, TD, etc) that
could go into the car?
> And for each possible motor, what else would need to
accompany it? For the
> turbo-diesel, there shouldn't need to be too much
electrical vs. the TDI,
> which would require a fair bit more, from what I
understand. What other
> issues should be considered? What about vacuum for
the diff locks? Do the
> newer diesels have a vacuum source? Adaptor plates?
Motor mounts? Fuel
> system mods? Stronger front springs? Gear ratios?
>
> Any thoughts or things I'm overlooking, I'm all
ears...
>
> Steve
> '86 4kcsq
> Kent, WA
>
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