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Engine Specific Info and Questions => TDI Engine -General Info => Topic started by: Ozo on July 14, 2006, 09:57:20 am

Title: 97 golf tdi tuning box
Post by: Ozo on July 14, 2006, 09:57:20 am

Hey all i have a 1997 golf tdi 90 bhp. i have just a bought a tuning box for it but when i went to fit it ive hit probelms. Where the box is meant to plug in instead of the rectangular plugs ive got a large round plug. Im wondering if im looking in the wrong place or has the orignal plugs been changed at some stage. Also is there any way i can wire the tuning box into the plug? many thanks Andy


a link incase the pic doesnt work:
[img=http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/6127/dsc003854kz.th.jpg]

Pic of plug:

 (http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/6752/dsc003854gv.jpg)

Title: 97 golf tdi tuning box
Post by: vwmike on July 14, 2006, 11:32:57 am

Um...you have a TD, not a TDI.

Title: 97 golf tdi tuning box
Post by: QuickTD on July 14, 2006, 11:37:08 am

Quote from: "vwmike"

Um...you have a TD, not a TDI.

I concur. If that pic is of your engine, you have regular 75hp mechanical turbo diesel, tuning boxes do not apply.

Edit: On second look I don't see a turbo oil line, perhaps you have the 68hp naturally aspirated 1.9 diesel?

Title: 97 golf tdi tuning box
Post by: dirtytom on July 16, 2006, 10:22:15 am

I hate to rain on your parade but it "is" a tdi. I am dirving a 1996 passat tdi and I have a spare 1997 passat tdi engine and both have that connection. The engine is a 1Z or similar. The look just like mech diesels except for the injectors and pump.
(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/TomDipace/VW_Bus/DSC01130.jpg)
this is my spare tdi at fisrt glance it looks like a idi but it is a 1Z tdi.

Title: 97 golf tdi tuning box
Post by: QuickTD on July 16, 2006, 10:32:31 am

I wasn't looking at the round connector to make my decision, I know they are the same IDI and TDI. As is the block and a number of other things.

Unless its a retrofit, it isn't a TDI. The TDI was never used with an 020 transaxle, the TDI with a manual tranny has coolant heater glow plugs in the nipple at the end of the head and there should be a bunch of intercooler piping running past the very area shown in the photo if this is a TDI.