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...

[Chris914n6]

You need a drivers side engine mount. No doubt about it.

You can hard mount the crossbar to the engine and use 911 engine sport mounts at the body. I'll see if I have a clear pic of my setup.



Can't see it behind the exhaust but the tube is vertical with a 3" gusset. Tube is 1.5" thick wall and plates are iirc 3/16". It's 20-30 lbs beefy or at least it feels like it. Bolts to the factory engine mounts.

[PatrickB]

You need a drivers side engine mount. No doubt about it.

You can hard mount the crossbar to the engine and use 911 engine sport mounts at the body. I'll see if I have a clear pic of my setup.

Thanks, looking forward to seeing it. I think we'll use what we've got short term with another mount on the other side, but may build something else in the long run. soft mounts at the bar to the body makes a lot of sense to me.

[stownsen914]

Agreed with reinforcing your crossbar where the notch is. The first version of my fabricated mount/crossbar for a 911 engine in a /4 chassis broke in the middle due to flexing. Fixed by triangulating in my case.

Cool project, by the way!

[PatrickB]

Agreed with reinforcing your crossbar where the notch is. The first version of my fabricated mount/crossbar for a 911 engine in a /4 chassis broke in the middle due to flexing. Fixed by triangulating in my case.

Cool project, by the way!

Thanks. Next issue:
Rad should be mounted by the end of the day. Honda civic rad and fan of unknown vintage is going in beside the motor driver's side. According to Kennedy's sheet it should be big enough. It will work to try, if it's not big enough I'll have to go custom to keep the rad in this location.
VW inline 4 cooling system of this vintage has an overflow bottle that plumbs into the system 2 ways . Bottom of the bottle has a fitting that hooks to the heater hose lines. Pressure cap is on the bottle and is the fill point for the system. It also has a small fitting on the top of the bottle that allows a small flow, I think it's an easy way for the sytem to bleed itself among other things. I've seen the line to the top of the bottle come from 3 different places depending on the year of the car.
1) out of the top of the rad
2) part of the upper rad hose molded in
3) out of the fitting on the front of the engine that feeds the top rad hose. This is the one I'm set up with.

Thermostat is at water pump (lower rad hose at engine)

I have a bottle out of the same type of car the engine came from, not finding a good spot to mount it. Should be the high point in the system...
May have to put it in the trunk but trying to keep everything in the engine bay.
Any suggestions? Need a pressurized reservoir with a heater hose fitting on the bottom and a small hose on top.
MAY try to use a standard overflow bottle out of something if I can find one to fit, and take a rad hose off to fill the engine or put in a bleed somewhere on the top rad hose if I have to. The Honda rad does have a pressure cap.