Author Topic: PD Conversion ( Now TDI Conversions)  (Read 18780 times)

Offline danny_p

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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #20 on: 01 September 2011, 21:03 »
the wireing  ether isn't as bad as youd think or worse than your worse nightmare  depending how you look at it.


there is a lot of wire to deal with a lot of it is 0.35mm2   so it's fiddely and a pita to work with.

the ecu needs to be craked to deal with the immob as no clocks ect = no go  once the immob is gone it's a lot easyer.

things that you need to look out for are things like the switches above the brake and clutch pedal.      if it thinks your brakeing it won't rev, if it thinks the clutch is down it won't rev out, so you'll be linking a few pins. 

joining wires  pay much attention to the pin in the ecu connector if it's a gold one you really have to use gold plated crimps else it will ghost faults at you,   on some of them they'll ghost if you solder them.  ideal solution is replace whole wire.

fitting the engine itself is a piece off piss,  some brave pills are needed  to do it right tho as you need to strengthen the inner wings and weld in pendulum mounts from a mk4,  it really needs the 6 speed box as imo its crap with a 5 speed.

not a nicest conversion to drive in a mk2, yup its quick and uses naff all fuel,   drives like a lumphammer as DH would say and its nose heavy.  esp with the 6 speed box. recon it'll make the T4 go well tho 

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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #21 on: 01 September 2011, 22:00 »
The chap who built the first PD mk2 golf finished it then sold it straight away. It pissed him off that much. Nightmare of a job I hear.

I think they would be better in a corrado tbh. But the 110bhp pre PD lump is very tuneable and straight forward to do

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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #22 on: 01 September 2011, 23:32 »
A7 UFO did one of the early conversions. and sold it soon after completing.

i know it wasent the first tho.  as far as i know the first PD conversion is still in the hands of the original owner altho its been off the road for the last couple years due to a rear end shunt.  built useing a very young LHD donor iirc that was driveing about in 2000 / 2001.  but the guy that built that particular car has a somewhat magor advantage when it comes to doing such conversions on vag cars 

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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #23 on: 02 September 2011, 11:04 »
Thanks for the info Danny.. Im not saying im 100% going to do it but i thought it was an option..
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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #24 on: 02 September 2011, 14:01 »
The AAZ or 1Z engine from the 90's VAG's are cheap and from what I read much easier to fit to MK2's than the PD's.

The yanks love these and is what I was hoping to do to my MK2 eventually
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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #25 on: 02 September 2011, 19:23 »
The AAZ or 1Z

this.

dead easy swap, bigger turbo and nozzles and you'd out-pace a mapped pd130 conversion.
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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #26 on: 02 September 2011, 19:34 »
What cars would these be from and what sort or power can they easily produce ??
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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #27 on: 02 September 2011, 19:42 »
What cars would these be from and what sort or power can they easily produce ??

see below...
« Last Edit: 02 September 2011, 19:46 by cняis »


I don't think a semi will give the same results

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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #28 on: 02 September 2011, 19:46 »
Correction on above:

Autodata says AAZ was 75bhp, standard TD lump. 1Z was 90bhp TDI lump.

AAZ was fitted to:
Golf 91-98
Passat 91-96
Vento 91-98





I don't think a semi will give the same results

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Re: PD Conversion
« Reply #29 on: 02 September 2011, 20:59 »
There's a guy/company in the states who modifies the fuel pumps for performance and setup properly with a bigger turbo(VNT :evil: ), uprated injectors as toph said along with an FMIC, seal off the waste gate, metal head gasket (think this only applies to the 1.6 MK2 GTD as the 1.9's metal h/g's as standard iirc) and ARP studs you can see 180-200bhp+ for not a lot of money and agro in comparison to a PD swap, while still being good on fuel. I think they also use a G60/VR6 clutch setup too.

Very different conversion to the ABF/1.8t/VR6 and I think that's why I still want to do something like this when time, garage space and money allow.
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