seat 2.0 8v engine into a mk1

my current engine has died, so im looking for a cheap replacement. i've seen a seat 2.0 litre 8v engine for sale but i'm not sure how easy it would be to fit.

does anyone have any experience with this or know whether it would fit easily?

at the moment i have a standard 1.8 gti engine in there.

Same as doing a VW 2.0L 8v swap. Seat = Volkswagen or better stated Seat is one of Volkswagens companies and uses its engines.

I have just been told that the engine mounts for this engine are in completly different place to that on this engine?! as I am quite new to this game do know of any other engine that would be either a straight swap or minimal fab work?!

cheers

it will drop in using your old mounts and gearbox, no problem at all. main issue is the wiring if you decide to convert it to electrinic fuel injection, or if you want to run it on k-jet you need a dizzy adaptor ring from TSR plus swap the 2.0 dizzy gear onto your old dizzy, and fit a MK1/MK2 GTI 8v head to the bottom end.  You could use the SEAT gearbox, but you would bneed to fit 90mm flanges to it or fit 100mm shafts from late cabby/rocco

how easy would it be to change it from kjet to electric injection? because i'm not very skilled!

would there be another engine that I could put into my car that would be a bit easier? or do you think all engines are going to be a bit tricky?

another engine I've been looking at is a g40 but don't know how hard they are to fit…easier or harder than the 2l 8v?!

Luke

Forget about G40 - small block, 115bhp, backwards step for a 1.8 GTI really. Only relevant to 1.1 or 1.3 Golfs where the owner doesn't want to move the engine mount (welding).

It really depends on your skills - if you have all the skills to do an engine conversion then its easy. If you don't, then its not. If you have most of the skills then you can learn the other bits, if you have hardly any skills/experience then any mechanical work will be an uphill struggle.

if you can read wiring diagrams and use a soldering iron, converting to electronic injection isnt particularly dificult. plenty of help on here for sourcing diagrams and figuring out which wires go where!  Main thing is you need all the engine wiring loom plus ecu, once you have that its a case of stripping everything out of the loom that isnt to do with the engine, then stripping everything out of your car loom that is for the engine, then combine the 2!  

Once you get the loom stripped down there arnt actually that many wires to worry about, the loom is mostly self-contained within the engine bay as its all connected direct to the ecu, you just need to give it power & earth, plus sort out a way to run the fuel pump. 2 ways to do this, either use the ecu earth trigger and wire this to a digi fuel pump relay, or simply leave the odl k-jet relay in there and let that handle it. Only thing is if it has a rev limiter built in, you'll want to swap it for a relay that doesnt.

fueling wise you'll need to bend the lines over to the driver side, with a bit of careful routing you can get tyhem into the right spot without cutting, push the threaded end down the line then push on the efi lines and secure with 2 fuel line clips. The flared end should stop the lines coming off, plus they arnt under high pressure anyway. Other option is to find threaded fittings with barbed ends (chop 2 old k-jet return lines up and you'll have the fittings you need)

The exhaust will fit straight on, though if you have the toilet bowl style setup I'd advise you fit a 6 bolt flange setup.  The MK3 airbox wont fit on the driver side chassis leg as its too wide, a cone filter would do the job but you need to make siure you have somewhere to but the air temp sensor if its a later one, if you get a 2e lump its no issue as you can just pop the cone filter on the end of the afm.