Todays Bodging

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Risocco
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Those paying attention will have noticed that I want to fit an Injection Head to my Carb'd (propper engine) bottom end. This poses a few issues and today I set about sorting them. Hopefully this will inspire a few of you guys to try this upgrade :good:

So you gets ya head...

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First issues are the injector holes...

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And the air thingy for the fuel injection system...

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So I plugged the injector holes with a few bolts...

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Next, the air thingy stops the inlet from fitting and will also allow water to get in the head. That would be bad. So to correct the size issue, first wrapped a little masking tape to the valve to allow the hacksaw to bite and trimmed it down a wee bit to allow clearance...

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And here we go all connected up...

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Now, the bolts that are plugging the injector holes will not do a decent job on their own, so I got some of this from Halfords...

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Looks like a mini Swiss-Roll...

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So, follow the pack instructions and get sealing...

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All done...

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And finally, pop a wee bolt down the valve and seal...

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Enjoy a cuppa and ciggy. This paste goes rock-hard, well impressed with the quality.

Hope somebody finds this usefull :good:

Alex


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Would it not have been easier to have unscrewed the injector seats and screwed in gearbox drain plugs :?:


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PeteGLi wrote:Would it not have been easier to have unscrewed the injector seats and screwed in gearbox drain plugs :?:
Most probably dude, but I've had no exposure to Injection gear in anyway, I knew they came out but did want to bugger it all up. I know you can put 1p coins in too but decided on using bolts.

Also, wasn't too sure what the gearbox drain plugs were, but I do now for future refernece. :good:

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Risocco wrote:
Enjoy a cuppa and ciggy.
i hear you brother, good work!!!


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just a quickly i found it cracked out my old gls and had running problems

ended up fitting gearbox ones to it then run ok for year

as for the air pipe i cut off level with the head and tap the hole to take a small grub screw in it.

or fit a 1.6 inlet manifold from a mk1 as they dont have the water way
plus if you cut the heater fins off it gives a bit of power


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Alex, just noticed this http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4460735 should be a big help. didn't know about that oil way.


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