Originally Posted by xoo00oox

If anyone wants any more details on any certain part of the job, let me know. I still have the complete original engine, ecm, wire harness, left side cat, muffler from the Boxster, if someone needs something, let me know that too.


Andrew-

Originally Posted by H2Ocooledesteem

It sure would. What would make it even better is if it were a 99 c2 so you could swap in an AEB cable driven 1.8t as they have a large port head over the AWM. Cost is going to come into play of how much you can do yourself.

Originally Posted by xoo00oox

Here at my shop, I do plenty of engine conversions on the Vanagons, I put the 1.8t in them as well so doing the wiring was a task I already very familiar with. To tie it all in with the Boxster electronics, it was actually pretty easy. I ran the K-line from my ECM to the OBD plug so it can be scanned just like the stock engine. The ABS and cruise control were happy once I got the tach functioning properly, I had to use a MSD 8920 tach signal converter to let my ECM talk to a Dakota Digital SGI-8 tach interface to alter the output from my 4cy to make the 6cyl tach show proper engine speed. The stock Box temp gauge works fine with the 1.8t temp sensor. The alternator light also works fine with the VW alternator. It's just a matter of looking at the wire diagrams from this engine and that of the Boxster to determine what wires go where, a time consuming job but not terribly hard, I enjoy it. The 1.8t ECM in this car has a tune from APR that brings the HP to about 200, the stock 2.5 was 209hp I believe, this engine is about 160 lbs lighter, there is something that a turbo adds to the feel of a car that I just love.
I just use a stock Passat Flywheel and clutch and starter and then was able to just bolt the engine to the transmission, The Boxster only has one motor mount, I just fabricated an adapter piece that would allow my engine to bolt up to the stock Box mount once I had the engine in position. The exhaust uses the stock right Catalytic converter from the Boxster, I fabbed up a pipe to connect the turbo to the inlet side and just used a small resonator and tail pipe on the outlet side of it. The stock 1.8t oxygen sensors bolted right into the threaded bungs on the Boxster cat.
I did not yet connect the AC compressor from this engine to the car, here in the Northeast we can get away without AC, I prefer to just drop the top.


Andrew-


here's a 1.8t I put in a customer's 2wd Vanagon...





here's a 1.8t in my Syncro Vanagon, this one I modified the engine so it runs counterclockwise so it allows me to run the entire drivetrain from a Audi A4 Quattro. You can also see from comparing this and the Boxster job with the on shown above that my work is much neater when I'm doing it for someone else!