Engine swap

[Veedubgt18v]

Another way of telling is the actual position of your airbox vs his - unless I'm very much mistaken, the K-Jet's had the airbox on the nearside didn't they? Digi airboxes are on the offside.

nah in the mk2 they are on the same side

[barry sprout]

Nice one GolfMk2Boy

I'll hav the spline tool thingbob -got one of those mahoosive socket sets fulla stuf yoo thort ud never use.....

How come it took ye 4 months!!? Now yoo got me worried!

Did you take the whole front member off? I got no hoist so may hav to try using brute force and stupidity.

Any particular problems or things to look out for that yoo encountered?

Cheers

Barry

[golfmk2boy]

I wouldnt try lifting the engine yourself, no matter how strong you are, it will be difficult.

I also swapped the clutch on the replacement engine, I would recommend you do this unless you have bought engine plus gearbox.

If the cluth goes it may cost quite abit.

Still havent finished mine yet, i wont start 

Think its an electrical fault.... oh, and now the fuel has decided to piss out the back!

[rubjonny]

easies way to tell is look at the airbox, if there are a load of fuel lines comming off it then its k-jet, if not its digi.

Either way, the bottom end will work in your car if your old head is serviceble, just swap it over.
If not, you can convert a K-Jet head to Digi simply by pulling the injectors and swapping the inserts over

[barry sprout]

Hi guys

OK... the story is this:

The engine I'm thinking of getting is defo a pb block  but with a k-jet head  .

Its a full rebuild with performance head, BUT I have a digifant car....

Rubjonny - how easy is it to convert the K-jet head to work with my digi injectors and ancillaries? What's involved in replacing the injector inserts?

Anyone else experienced converting a K-jet head to use in a digifant car?

Cheers again (........nearly there!)

[rubjonny]

its easy, the inserts unscrew with an allen key, I can't remember the size off the top of my head though.  The only other thing you might have to change is the coolant flange on the front of the head, depending on what year your digi is

[barry sprout]

Rubjonny

Thanks for the advice mate, sounds good.

So that's all there is to it? Just swap over the injector inserts and then I can plug the existing digi injection and loom into the kjet. In other words with the simple task of adapting the injectors to fit, a kjet or a digi engine will run equally well off either injection system?? Sounds too good to be true.....!

[rubjonny]

yup, they are pretty much identical!  Only real diff is the early engines had solid lifters and the later ones got hydralic.  Both work equally well, just hydro tappets require less servicing as they self-adjust, where mechanical ones can need shimming when they get very worn.

Although I remember reading digis got larger exhaust valves, but when asked most people think k-jets are quicker anyway!

[...joe]

............. most people think .................

[rubjonny]