914 Diesel build.... Options

[PatrickB]

Here goes nothin....
Been planning this for a while, but it was supposed to be a winter project. Wasn't quite ready yet. KEP adaptor parts have been sitting here. Timeline moved up because of a failure.
Had a chirp that turned into a BAD miss, valve seat issue on one cylinder.

Had a fresh 1.9 AAZ diesel sitting in my storage trailer that had never been fired. (honed, rings, bearings, injection pump reseal). "new" engine was destined for my daily beater . Same engine in the beater is getting a little tired, I've put at least 350,000 km on it and the compression is getting down. Still runs okay though. Swapped the "new" engine into the beater. 16 year old son is learning...

[914forme]

To answer your question if it was just the engine, it does not matter at all. It can go anywhere you want it to go. Since you have the 901 you might want to go with the stock location of the 901. Might.

So lots of people have built adapters to move engines forward with the 901. Renegade I think has one that moves the engine and trans forward. If you need to shift to the side, that becomes more of an issue, as your dealing with mechanical shift linkage.

It can be done just how much work do you want to deal with.

As far as tipping the engine, the pump is one thing, I have a feeling what you really need is the pan and pickup tube. Check the Vanagon of that time, the diesel engine was a water-cooled out of the rabbit, Jetta, etc.... While the Gas version had the Wasserboxer. That gets your engine tilted and down maybe where you need it.

Or cut the trunk wall and build a little box to cover it all backup.

You could just put a dimple into it by (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)

[PatrickB]

To answer your question if it was just the engine, it does not matter at all. It can go anywhere you want it to go. Since you have the 901 you might want to go with the stock location of the 901. Might.

So lots of people have built adapters to move engines forward with the 901. Renegade I think has one that moves the engine and trans forward. If you need to shift to the side, that becomes more of an issue, as your dealing with mechanical shift linkage.

It can be done just how much work do you want to deal with.

As far as tipping the engine, the pump is one thing, I have a feeling what you really need is the pan and pickup tube. Check the Vanagon of that time, the diesel engine was a water-cooled out of the rabbit, Jetta, etc.... While the Gas version had the Wasserboxer. That gets your engine tilted and down maybe where you need it.

Or cut the trunk wall and build a little box to cover it all backup.

You could just put a dimple into it by (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)

Tipping the engine without tipping the trans is possible with the adaptor, pan and oil pump available from Vanagon but for a gas engine (smaller oil pump). I think I'm going to cut the hole a little bigger and build a box to cover it. I want to leave the 901 trans in the stock location, and try to have the centreline of the crankshaft in as close to the same place as the original engine as possible.