My 95 golf with 86idi motor

[bigbertha72]

Here is my ride. Its a 95 golf that had a 2.0 until the timing belt broke and bent valves. So I decided to go with something that gets good mpg and was relatively cheap. I drive a lot for work so I needed mpg over speed these days. This is the first time I have ever done a motor swap for mpg over hp.

Here is what I started with. A 86 idi out of a jetta


Raceware Head Studs


Pulled the head apart


Didn't have the real valve spring compressor. So I made do with a standard pushrod motor one.


Gasket matched the ports and cleaned up the casting some.


My hightech porting station.


Old Motor Pulled out




Diesel sat in. Still need to add a motor mount. Using the 3 stock 2.0 mounts. Haven't decided on where I am going to add the 4th one.


Exhaust built.

[burn_your_money]

4th mount? You only need the 3 stock ones...

It looks like you know what you are doing. Should be fun. I actually have the same car with the same motor sitting in my yard. It was a 1.8l though.

[vanbcguy]

My 1.6td mk3 did me great till I eventually killed the transmission. Was plenty of fun to drive too.

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[Enslaved_Pickle]

Yay a white golf with idi welcome to the club, i did the same swAp with mine only i went 1.9td, good luck, hope all goes well, i'll be watching