engine swap questions
 

as i've been talking to people about my upcoming repair job on the left front steering assemblies I encountered a friend who mentioned that I might want to consider swapping my engine out into an old volkswagon (maybe a late 80s/early 90s) I've heard of people doing this before but how viable is it. also...is there a list of known model/year compatibiliy for this type of thing? I have a 92 svx lsl awd as per my sig.

louis

The EG33 into a Vanagon swap has been around for years.
-Bill

not sure I want a vanagon. any other models I could use?

honestly I am talking more like a golf, jetta, or cabriolet. is this possible?

<<honestly I am talking more like a golf, jetta, or cabriolet. is this possible?>>

with:

1.time
2. money

anything is possible

well...how much time and extra parts does this take to do? I have vw mechanic friends.

By cutting a huge hole in the firewall, pushing the wheel wells out, upgrading the suspension, modifying the frame, fabricating engine mounts, fabricating a bellhouseing or finding an adapter for the transmission, upgrading the tranmission, differential, and axle to handle the torque, swapping the wiring harness, ECU, finding a way to make the ECU talk to the TCU, mounting a radiator and trunk at the BACK of the car, upgrading the fuel pump, transfering the MAF

And finally, finding someone to pay to take the car thats been destroyed trying to get an EG33 into a spot where and inline four or a small V6 usually live.


Not to sound pessimistic or anything, but the EG33 is a low, long, and very wide engine. Current gen VW engines (aside from the W16 - shweet!) are tall, and slim (comparatively) It fits into vanagons well because there is already a flat 4 positioned there, the engine bay is already the right shape. the golf, jetta, and cabriolet don't have that going for them.


It would probably be simpler to build a car from scratch.


-Patrick

that's what I was guessing. too many eg33 vanagons in the world anyway. I will just fix my svx.