the best-known TDI conversion shop is GreaseWorks in Corvallis Oregon.
You're looking at a pretty expensive job though.
Can't speak for justin at all of course..
I have not seen that he installs customer's existing used tdi engines ..
but he might.

the stock iinercooler isn't used anyway I believe.
On the 98 jetta AHU I once did, the intercooler is oddly shaped to fit low
in a front fender..
and the shape not condusive to fitting anywhere in the back of a
tdi-vanagon.

I suspect that it's much bigger a project than you think at this point.
A single vehilce accident ?  how do people do that ? At least the person
involved was not hurt much at all, that being the important part.
Price out crashed tdi jetta....people are always buying them to get the
engine and the other needed parts.
Be nice to have an idea what it's worth ..
and then there is your insurance company to deal with too, I imagine.

Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Grungy" <grungy@GRUNGY.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:06 PM
Subject: TDI conversion...

> My daughter did a cartwheel with a full twist and jumped over a fence
> in my 2005 Jetta Wagon TDI, and it is likely totalled. (she is fine
> except for an abrasion from the shoulder belt, no airbag deployment)
>
> Can someone please advise me on what it would take to put that TDI in
> my '89 Carat?
> It's a pumpe duse.
> And can someone suggest a shop to do the conversion for me?
>
> The intercooler was sitting on the ground when the wrecker took it
> away, but that's because the right front was crunched during the
> cartwheel (along with the left front and the right rear). It was
> hanging from it's hoses.
> Couldn't get the hood open at the storage lot, so I haven't gotten a
> really good look at the engine yet, but the front end of the vehicle
> isn't pushed in much at all and all four tires are still inflated, so
> it didn't land "too" hard.
> --
>
> bcnu - Grungy  (Baytown, TX)  opinions are just that.obviously.
> 60 dddPanel 69 Bug 89 Carat 04 Jetta TDI 05 Jetta Wagon TDI
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