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• TD swap into my Caddy by funkaholik on 02 May, 2007 01:05
• The 1.6 NA in my Caddy has breathed its last breath.  Perfect excuse to swap in a TD motor and clean up that ugly engine compartment.
  
  So, the plan is to put this:
  
  
  
  into this:
  
  
  
  I'll keep this updated as things move along / when I have questions for those more experienced than me.  I've swapped plenty of muscle car V8's, but this will be my first diesel swap. Just finished my brother's Camaro, so now he gets to help with my Caddy...
  
  
  
  So, besides changing the timing belt and clutch, and replacing the bent injector lines, is there anything else I should do while the engine is out and easily accessible?
• #1 by RabbitJockey on 02 May, 2007 04:07
• put the right acessory bracket on it.  and all the right motor mounts, but i'm sure you figured that one out on your own.  it's about the same difficulty as a v8 swap.  oh yeah, and it's easier to drop the motor to the floor, then lift the whole car up with the cherry picker, then pull the motor out, put the new motor underneath and drop the car down over top of the new motor, and then lift the new motor into place
• #2 by burn_your_money on 02 May, 2007 07:12
• Rebuild the injectors
• #3 by stewardc on 03 May, 2007 06:31
• It'll look like this      
  
  
• #4 by RabbitJockey on 03 May, 2007 19:22
• aside from all the yellow... that bay was awesome like that... basically everything thats yellow on the caddy, i have powder coated black for on my jetta, i just haven't put any of that stuff on yet.  i love having a friend that can powder coat stuff for me haha
• #5 by stewardc on 04 May, 2007 04:03
• Quote from: Trev0rbr

  aside from all the yellow... that bay was awesome like that... basically everything thats yellow on the caddy, i have powder coated black for on my jetta, i just haven't put any of that stuff on yet.  i love having a friend that can powder coat stuff for me haha

  
  
  Yeah, the yellow certainly isn't my choice of colors either, it just happened to be there when I bought it.
  I agree, powdercoating is awesome.