Matt,
another quick thing about the conversion.....
If you are planning on using the diesel exhaust manifold I would recommend
against it. I used the diesel manifold for th first couple years of my
conversion, found it was just too small for the task. Lots and lots of
back-pressure. It finally cracked into a bunch of little pieces, I found a
manifold from a late 80's fox that fit perfectly, dasher and some audi
manifolds will work as well. I had to build a new exhaust pipe, used 2"
tube, works great. You will get a lot more power and it's a lot easier to
change the manifold with the engine out.
Good Luck
Don
82 diesel to gti conversion
Portland, Or
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Ratto" <mratto@WEBER.UCSD.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:10 PM
Subject: diesel to gas conversion ongoing...

> Hi all,
>
> just finished the third day of work. So far, we've:
>
> 1. Pulled the diesel and removed the flywheel, clutch, oil pan, oil pump
> pickup, and exhaust manifold.
> 2. Pulled the engine from the donor 1986 Golf (that was a little hard).
Also
> grabbed about half of the hiring harness (more to get tomorrow) and the
fuel
> filter,accumulator, and pump assembly.
> 3. Transferred the diesel parts and a new pilot bearing to the donor
engine.
> 4. Took a little off of the diesel tranny input shaft with my dremel -
> hopefully enough.
>
> Tomorrow we'll stick it in, hook up the fuel lines, and start figuring out
> the CIS fuel injection. So far, so good...
>
> best,
>
> Matt
>