engine change

[hardmonkeys]

I'm assuming this would be the same for a auto to manual transmission conversion too? Doner car would have all the items I needed?

[itavaltalainen]

No, a doner car would be smelly pretty soon, the yogurt sauce and meat will ferment in no time

[hardmonkeys]

  haha!! Only messing I like that!!

[MoMartin]

standard gti shafts would cope no problem 

Are they the same fitment / same length as the 1.8t shafts aswell then?

[ap_gt3]

Wouldn't you be better off just buying a 1.8t gti?
Would surely save a lot of money and effort

[nodwardo]

Yeah definately but ive done that much to my golf id have to start from scratch again. And to be honest the way it is now took about 4months to do, finding all the bits etc..... thought maybe an engine change would be an easier way. Now i dont think so haha

[Rhyso]

By doing an engine swap you can replace all the silly pipes, do the cambelt etc whilst the engine is out and on a stand

That way you know its as close to 100% going into the car

[nodwardo]

Yeah ive already kind of sussed all this out. Id probably be changing every pipe to samco/smaco version anyway and maybe polishing alot of it up aswell so it would be as close to new as possible even with it being old. The only problem is, itll start out a reasonable priced job and ill make it expensive because i cant help myself but buy every single part upgraded/coloured/shiny lol. Would be awesome in the end but very expensive lol

[hardmonkeys]

Yeah ive already kind of sussed all this out. Id probably be changing every pipe to samco/smaco version anyway and maybe polishing alot of it up aswell so it would be as close to new as possible even with it being old. The only problem is, itll start out a reasonable priced job and ill make it expensive because i cant help myself but buy every single part upgraded/coloured/shiny lol. Would be awesome in the end but very expensive lol

Yes expensive, to a person not interested that much into cars, how I see it is, if you want to do it, then do it, people have told me it's not worth doing the engine/box change in my Cabrio, but I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't have any hobbies as such, so my car is my hobby..people spend money painting model airplanes, train spotting...and I don't judge...so yes...its expensive, but if you enjoy it..then you have my full support* 

*DISCLAIMER just to clarify you do not have my financial support, just my moral support 

[nodwardo]

Haha top answer mate! The project begins!