WINTER BEATER BUILD !!

[BAM]

I have noticed a couple of posts regarding gas to diesel swaps while lurking around here.  So here is mine.  I purchased this 94 CL the weekend before the May 24 long weekend.  I have 15 hours into the swap on the the long weekend.  Swap included fuel system, wiring, engine, tranny and instrument cluster.





The donor engine with my mock up of the single belt setup.  I abandoned this setup because the water pump was going backwards.

Here is the CL after the swap



First run out I had it up to 185 km/h and still pulling  

[catlin_cava]

Congrads on the swap, My first swap was a 1996 Golf CL to AAZ. But I made a stupid mistake I kept my CL transmission and I was topping out at 140 lol

[booneylander]

Hey! I'm so glad I spotted this. I just picked up a MK3 Wolfsburg with a 2.0L, and I'm picking up an AAZ to swap into it.

I wanted to know, what swap parts did you need electrically and for the fuel system to do the conversion? Can the gas electronics/dash be used and just add glow plug relays etc? Can I use the same gas tank and just replace the fuel pump?

Any help you can lend would be awesome!

[theman53]

What an excellent job. I never get that motivated to do things that fast.

I do think that your winter beater looks better than my build for a daily  lol

[BAM]

Hey! I'm so glad I spotted this. I just picked up a MK3 Wolfsburg with a 2.0L, and I'm picking up an AAZ to swap into it.

I wanted to know, what swap parts did you need electrically and for the fuel system to do the conversion? Can the gas electronics/dash be used and just add glow plug relays etc? Can I use the same gas tank and just replace the fuel pump?

Any help you can lend would be awesome!

I did the swap so that any of the guys that work for me can diagnose problems simply by looking up the proper wiring diagrams and getter done.  I swapped all engine harnesses right back to the fuse box.  Replaced instrument cluster and fuel tank/lines to front(20mins).  I was lazy with the harness at the fuel tank, cut & spliced in connector for sending unit.  I know people who have done the swap just hooked up the two wires required to get rolling and left all the gas harness hanging but it looks like sh!t and pain to work on later when it shows up on my door step.  VW is like lego if you get the right parts it all goes together and looks factory   The reason I changed the instrument cluster is the CL had a clock and I wanted a tach.  In regards to the pump in the tank it's all good as long as the pump works if it quits the VE pump will not pull fuel through it.

The tranny I used was a old box out of a 90 Golf NA, I took it apart and re-geared so there is about 1500rpm between gears and installed 100mm drive flanges to mate to mk3 axles.

The CL came with VR6 exhaust and the down pipe had the converter removed.  Turbo spools up real quick.

[theman53]

since you decided against the serp setup could I have dibs on the water pump pulley 

[BAM]

I'm still running the standard mk3 serp/v-belt setup.  I was trying to see if I could dump the v-belt.  I have a Passat that has a different bracket/pulley setup.  I will try mocking up another single belt setup later when I have more time, have lots of AAZ engines sitting waiting to be molested.  My goal was to run one belt like the mk4 cars, no v-belt drama.

[BAM]

Yesterday I adjusted the wastegate almost to the max so now the little stinker(running B100) is spooling hard right from idle just needs more fuel     The other adjustment I made was install tilt steering

[BAM]

Yesterday things were slow at the shop so I went to the local junk yard and purchased a 11mm TDi pump for $12.  I was thinking that it could part of a frankin pump