TDi engine version

My dad is running one of these engines in his Audi A4 Avant and believe me, slow is one accusation you cant level at that car!

However, I simply don't think I could live with myself if I fitted one in a Mk1.  I guess it's different if it's a Diesel to start with but to pull out a DX lump and install one of them, sorry - couldn't do it.  Especially in a rag top - just wouldn't want to hear that deisel tickover.

Bert said

heres a AAZ against a VR6  :wink:  thanks to oldschoolrich  8)

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Where do I start?? 17.1 - is that fast????? I suppose it is compared to a stock diesel…but then so is a 1.0 Lupo.

Note the ages they took checking underneath the car, until they realised half the rubbish hanging off the car, was BY DESIGN, and not components about to expire.

There's plenty fast diesels out there……apparently…….but we wanna know what a TD/TDI can do in a Mk1.

About 15 years ago someone built a LHD Lhasa Green old R-reg GTD with a 1.9 TDI in it.  That used to tear up the strip! (in a big cloud).  It was featured in the Golf Mag (before it became Golf Plus).  Anyone still go the article?  Think it was on BBS RZ's or similar?

Steve_Matthews said

About 15 years ago someone built a LHD Lhasa Green old R-reg GTD with a 1.9 TDI in it.  That used to tear up the strip! (in a big cloud).  It was featured in the Golf Mag (before it became Golf Plus).  Anyone still go the article?  Think it was on BBS RZ's or similar?

To be fair to the newer deisel engines, you can't really hear them tick over at all.

And on the other side, how nice would to be at around 2000 rpm with the top down listening to your turbo spool?

36thCrazyFist said

To be fair to the newer deisel engines, you can't really hear them tick over at all.

And on the other side, how nice would to be at around 2000 rpm with the top down listening to your turbo spool?

I think is probably as much to do with better sound deadning now as quieter engines.

Personally it wouldnt bother me if it was a diesel expecially chipped to 190 bhp and all that diesel torque, it would be great fun!! Oh and still do 50mpg!

jonnymk1 said

36thCrazyFist said

To be fair to the newer deisel engines, you can't really hear them tick over at all.

And on the other side, how nice would to be at around 2000 rpm with the top down listening to your turbo spool?

I think is probably as much to do with better sound deadning now as quieter engines.

Personally it wouldnt bother me if it was a diesel expecially chipped to 190 bhp and all that diesel torque, it would be great fun!! Oh and still do 50mpg!

Yeah, there is a lot of deddening involved in the mk4's but not reason why you can't do the same to your mk1?!

I would have thought it'd be 50mpg minimum.

My Mk4 did 46mpg in the city and that was driving it hard!

See that's what i thought, but until someone does it you don't know, could be all sorts of problems after fitment.

It's not all that different to a 20vt anyways, just different fuel lines?

jonnymk1 said

 

Hmmm Im tempted by this myself now!!!!

Do it jonnymk1, if I had the room to park another mk1 I would love this project  

Its not so strange that no TDI Mk1s seem to exist. If I were to sink ?2500 into an engine conversion, I'd probably be thinking of a 20vT instead of a diesel. True, the modern diesels are good, but they've not quite caught up with petrol yet. What doesn't help is that the Mk1 is a light car, so its not so well suited to the low rev torquey nature of the diesel (as say a modern 1? ton hatchback is).

paul_c said

Its not so strange that no TDI Mk1s seem to exist. If I were to sink ?2500 into an engine conversion, I'd probably be thinking of a 20vT instead of a diesel. True, the modern diesels are good, but they've not quite caught up with petrol yet. What doesn't help is that the Mk1 is a light car, so its not so well suited to the low rev torquey nature of the diesel (as say a modern 1? ton hatchback is).

One does exist, it's just in Germany it was on the cover of PVW last year!

paul_c said

Its not so strange that no TDI Mk1s seem to exist. If I were to sink ?2500 into an engine conversion, I'd probably be thinking of a 20vT instead of a diesel. True, the modern diesels are good, but they've not quite caught up with petrol yet. What doesn't help is that the Mk1 is a light car, so its not so well suited to the low rev torquey nature of the diesel (as say a modern 1? ton hatchback is).

Your prob right paul, it may just sit on the spot with the tyres smoking!

The main thing that interested me would be that the extra mpg compared to 20v would be good.

Are they heavy engines like old diesel lumps?

jonnymk1 said

paul_c said

Its not so strange that no TDI Mk1s seem to exist. If I were to sink ?2500 into an engine conversion, I'd probably be thinking of a 20vT instead of a diesel. True, the modern diesels are good, but they've not quite caught up with petrol yet. What doesn't help is that the Mk1 is a light car, so its not so well suited to the low rev torquey nature of the diesel (as say a modern 1? ton hatchback is).

Your prob right paul, it may just sit on the spot with the tyres smoking!

The main thing that interested me would be that the extra mpg compared to 20v would be good.

Are they heavy engines like old diesel lumps?

From what I've heard it's pretty much the same weight as a 20vt?