Definitive engine swap thread.

[Diamond Hell]

I'm a wireman by trade and would love to do the PD conversion one day. I think I read that you did this conversion?

No.  I think Danny had a pop at it a while back.  Not sure of the outcome.

It's only wires, so it must be possible, but I think it's a lot of work to end up with a TDI engine. 

[SoundillusioN]

I'm a wireman by trade and would love to do the PD conversion one day. I think I read that you did this conversion?

No.  I think Danny had a pop at it a while back.  Not sure of the outcome.

It's only wires, so it must be possible, but I think it's a lot of work to end up with a TDI engine. 

Didn't A7 UFO do this some time ago.

[danny_p]

No.  I think Danny had a pop at it a while back.  Not sure of the outcome.

put it in,  got it running, drove it up the road, decided didn't like it , pulled it back out and sold it.

pd 130 with a map will make a mk2 move in some serious order  feel faster than a lot of 1.8t's  ( once its stopped spinning ) but on the downside car drives like lumphammer tho      way to nose heavy and full of torque steering nastyness and throttel seemed to be like an on / off switch.
think mapped skoda fabia VRS with the anti crash turned off but worse. 

basicly it's a whole lot of work and all you do is remove all the GTi ness  ,  fast but not fun