Mick's mk4 1.6 to 1.8t conversion

[Clarkee_vw]

Hi all,

Attempting to do a conversion in a mk4 golf from 1.6 to a 1.8t. Brought a front cut gti and just pulled the motor out of it last night

So far it's looking like a massive headache but hopefully shouldn't be too difficult. We are following Stan's conversion and he is being a lot of help so far and we haven't even started pulling my motor out yet haha.



That's my car now

[Clarkee_vw]

This is the front cut gti

[Lito]

nice work mate, any plans for the 1.8t once its in the car?

[Clarkee_vw]

Getting the motor out is fairly easy. We used the engine mounts to hook the engine crane on to and pulled the motor out. The heater hoses caused a little problem but we got them undone in the end. We forgot about the dogbone mount and wondered why the motor wouldn't come out :/ haha.

[Clarkee_vw]

yeah mate just going to keep it stock looking, put some coilovers in it and upgrade the exhaust and re-tune for now.. Upgrade the turbo one day too

[Clarkee_vw]

So.. Today had to pack everything up and shift it to my place so it's easier to work on. Bit of a pain really..

But started pulling things off my car now, bonnet, wipers, airbox and a few other things..

[Stan]

Going well so far mate!
Your shed needs walls and lights to make life easier.
If the wiring becomes an issue I have a bunch of PDFs, and JMAC was a lot of help - he is a wiring guru

[Clarkee_vw]

Thanks Stan.

Here are some photos I took just before while getting to the ecu..

This pic shows the box where the body harness goes into the body to the dash..



This is the ecu location and if you look closely you can see the channel on the bottom of the window where the scuttle cover clips on



This is the grove that sticks out from the scuttle cover and clips into the grove under the windscreen (if that makes sense?)



And this is the wiring that runs into the car

[Clarkee_vw]

[Clarkee_vw]

I don't know why the other pics didn't work.. Sorry guys

[Stan]

cleaning that will render several spiders homeless...

[Clarkee_vw]

Started to try and pull my old motor out.. Isn't working very well so far. Will go into detail more tomorrow..

[Clarkee_vw]

So last night we attempted pulling the motor out..

The dogbone mounts bolts have been previously stripped so I had to unbolt it from the k frame. Also had the wrong size 12 side spline bit for undoing the cv joints. It's an 8mm not a 10mm piece.

Plus cant get the clutch fluid hose off the gearbox either. The cv joints are the only thing holding the motor in the car.

[GoLfMan]

good to see someone else doing this. Good luck!

[Clarkee_vw]

Plugs looked the same for the gti ecu but the pin configuration is different.. Gti ecu is the bottom in the pic