Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:00:10 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: I4 Happenings in turbovans land
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hey ..all right ..
If the link to the Tiico group is easy for you to send to me ..
that'd be nice.
I can find it somehow I'm sure.
just took possession of a 92 jetta 8 vavle 1.8 complete engine.
the Tiico distributor will prabably fit I imagine ..it's missing its
distributor.
and an Idle Air valve ..
142K on it.
at least a hundred thou left it in, right Don !
sure was a nasty engine to pull .
auto trans too.
In the trenches of auto repair ...
you'd be cursing so badly by the time you got that starter out from under
the exhaust mainifold, and captured in there by the axle . It's completely
buried in the car.
and now I am more sympathic about engines from europe being all hacked up
and things broken on them. ..
even if you try to do fairly clean job of removing it ..
there are still a lot of things that hang up ....the exhasut pipe goes back
under the cowl and front firewall area a long way .... if you smash an oil
pressure switch ...that's just colateral damage, and they're cheap.
not fun work to get the engine out. Especially in blazing sun in the
junkyard, where you have to schelp your tools from your car or van. But I
got it.
next is the 2.0 16V. Kinda excited about that one..
Digifant is the plan. ( CIS-E now of course )
I wonder if techtronics has cams for low end torque for 16V's.
later !
scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: I4 Happenings in turbovans land
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
> scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Well who is going to put a stock DV exhaust system on a gas 1.8 anyway ?
>> ?
>> If that's what he meant .
>> that tiny pipe would be rather ....uh .......either dorky, or way
>> undersized.,
>>
>
>
> The fellow who converted my van, that's who....
>
> My van, before I *pre-emptively* swapped in the ABA 2.0 liter block, when
> it came to me with it's '92 Golf/Cabriolet motor... it had the "rather
> dorky" diesel exhaust manifold. Yes, it was pretty restrictive looking
> and
> the hanging system was very crude, to say the least. The guy who did the
> conversion, he was a door builder, not a mechanic. He welded on a really
> tight bend right below that cast diesel manifold and ran a pipe right
> straight back to a "fart can" muffler that stuck straight out back, with
> a
> steel hanger welded to the frame.
>
> I added a magnaflow muffler across the back of the motor just ahead of
> the
> bumper, hanging that on a flexible mount to the frame. I drove it that way
> for two years without any problems. That diesel exhaust
> manifold...strong!
> Even as restricted as that exhaust manifold must have been, I still often
> drove past WBX vanagons on hills.
>
> When I did *pre-emptively" swap to my $300 Jetta ABA motor's lower end, I
> replaced that diesel exhaust system. I changed to the Jetta dual downpipe
> manifold that came with my $300 motor. (it bolts right on to the 1.8 liter
> head) I did replace the 17yr old flex coupling on the Jetta pipes with a
> new one from Techtonics Tuning, and I re-mounted that same magnaflow
> muffler, but I used the diesel Vanagon style muffler brackets. I had some
> pipes 'bent', configuring the primaries to the lengths I got from the
> Gurus
> at Techtonics Tuning.
>
> "Pre-emptive" motor change...that's the key here. I didn't have any
> complaints or problems happening on the old '92 1.8 liter It didn't need
> to
> be changed. I chose to change it...I simply wanted to mess around and
> that
> complete Jetta motor was for sale nearby. I'd been reading on the VW
> Vortex
> pages, etc.. and talking to people about combining the two, I had some
> free
> time and it was raining and snowing in the Northwest...indoor project
> time.
> So I went for it and it worked out just fine. It cost me not much and I
> learned a lot. I found some good power, but I lost about one mile per
> gallon
> fuel economy...probably because I drive a bit faster now.
>
> I still have that 1.8 block, a spare now, wrapped in plastic, and should
> this one ever fail...I could re-install that one and expect a couple of
> hundred thousand more miles from it...It would probably work much better
> without that restrictive diesel exhaust, better with the Jetta dual
> downpipe I have on the head right now.
>
> I "heard" that the Tiicos as they came had problems. But as I said,
> their
> List chat is that the New Guys who've assumed responsibility for Tiico,
> they
> are good, and they've been making things right with that conversion.
> Happy
> posts over there.
>
> Don Hanson
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