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General => The garage => Topic started by: gl48lee on 25 February 2011, 09:53
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Im doing a engine swap from a 1.6 carb to a 1.8 gti on twin 40s and my ? is this
Im not to sure about the dizzy side of thing as the 1.6 has a dizzy with points and the 1.8 gti has a electric dizzy . so how do i go about putting the engine in will ?????????
1.do i just run a wire from the coil to the gti dizzy and then earth that??????
2.or do i take the dizzy from the 1.6 and use it on the gti engine????
or something else thanks
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use a 1.8 k-jet gti dizzy as well as carb/k-jet tci/coil/dizzy wiring loom.
must be a pretty old 1.6 if its on points, are you sure it is?
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Don't think I have ever seen a mk2 on points.
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It a mk 2 a reg m8 type 19
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yup that'll be old enough :)
so yeah, you want a k-jet 8v dizzy, and the wiring loom from tci->dizzy->coil from carb/kjet 8v. also need the coil, tci plus the dizzy cap, arm and leads too as they differ. can use a 1.6/1.8 carb dizzy at a push, but the k-jet one is better matched to the gti lump obviously.
one last thing, the points coil has a resistor wire, this needs to be removed and replaced with a normal wire, plus there is a wire from the starter to the coil which needs to be removed