Hello all!! I recently acquired a 1987 Sami with 80,000 original miles. Super clean, for $500. Then I found a 2002 Jetta TDI fully loaded with 130,000 on it for $1200. The transmission is even good so ill probably make money by parting it out. The best part was he included a spare low mile 11mm injection pump for free
. So these two now need to be married
and I need some guidance. Ive found several good threads on the same build, but have a few questions... I want to just do the bare minimum for lift as I just want a good solid daily driver, not a wheeler, so 3" suspension and just decent a/t tires. What gearing should I use with this swap? Also was considering using a Toyota tranny over the Sami one. Just got to look at lengths and such. Can anyone speak of a good tranny suggestion for this application? Also I found a good forum for the wiring harness to get rid of the unnecessary stuff, but any suggestions would be great! Also I keep seeing conflicting forums on whether the various conversion companies make motor mounts for this application. Can any one confirm which company sells what? A lot of the posts I found were old, so some things may have changed. For now I am going to try and keep the current injection setup, until I get to frustrated with the wiring harness and go to m-MDI(I actually think it will go alright. Reason being is that this is just a daily driver not a wheeler so I want to keep a lot of the sensors and still keep the ability to chip
. If anyone has done something like this, or knows of good suggestions on where to take this post, I would GREATLY appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jeff
