Where has the 8v 2.0 bottom end guide gone???

[Mew]

Am i losing it here, or was there a guide in the mk2 maintenance section on putting in an 8v 2.0 bottom end to a digi mk2? If there was, anyone know where it has gone and why because i can't find it!

Cheers, ben.

[rubjonny]

I don't think there was ever a guide, but if you have a digi mk2 it will go straight on no mods required.  Use the existing dizzy if its a 2e block, if its an ady block you'll need a 2e dizzy.

You can use all the brackets & anxileries from the 2.0 lump if you like, or you can swap on all the MK2 gear from your old lump.  If you go with the MK3 bits you'll need to fit a MK3 GTI 8v water flange to the front of your old head, added bonus is it has sparky wire clips to help neaten things up.  Only issue is that it has the small header tank feed pipe on it, simply run the old pipe here and block off the one on the rad by chopping a short length of hose & threading a bolt in, secured with a jubilee clip.

With the clutch you'll need one that matches your gearbox, if you want to re-use your old 8v box use your old flywheel and a new clutch kit.

Finally you have to think about the breather on the front of the block, either plumb it in with the MK3 rocker cover (not as easy as you might think!) or block it off somehow.  I chose the first option but its a bit of a fiddle due to the location of all the breather piping.  To clean it up I plan to swap the ISV and Breather pipes round!

[Mew]

Cheers for that! 

When you say use the existing dizzy if it's a 2e block, do you mean use my existing one at the moment off the 1.8 digi or the existing one on the 2e block?

[...joe]

jonny, if you want to do a lovely guide to this i can sticky it in the maintenance section for future use?!

[rubjonny]

sorry by existing I meant the 2e one
The MK2 dizzy is too small to fit in the hole, you need to swap the MK3 dizzy gear onto it and use an adaptor to make it work.  But the MK3 dizzy works with the MK2 Digi injection system so theres no need to worry.

If you plan to do the conversion on a K-Jet MK2 you need to swap the old dizzy on as above

One day I should put a guide together, I'll put it on my list of things to do 

[heinz]

the guide was on the other web site  golfgti