phantomcrooner

Now begins the wiring mess. I started by straightening out what i knew/thought i was going to need. I spent several hours over the next several days reading wiring diagrams the writeup by 'Numbchux' and finally out of frustration started cutting crap out. The harness is definitely lighter than it was. Wow, I really hope i didn't need any of that. A few pictures of my comp.

A side by side view. Engine bolted in place, the EJ mounts i got from 'LMDEW' worked perfectly, just rocked the engine to one side, dropped one bolt into the cross-member, then nudged the other in, required no modification. Engine bolted right up to trans. and lined up perfectly. Passenger side view. Driver side view, you can see that I ran the fuel from the rail to a gas can sitting on the ground. This made sure no contaminants were pushed into the tank and also to make sure I had hooked up the fuel lines correctly. Hmm... the fuel pump is on but its not sending fuel through the rail, what the heck? That's because a 5lb fuel pump for a carbed car wont push through the pressure regulator, duh. I got this Bosche fuel pump off of a wrecked Volvo 940 Turbo, should be pushing about 45 psi. Add some 5/16" and 3/8" 300psi double wall plastic sleeved hose, good to go. Except that when i tested the Bosche fuel pump i had fuel spewing from 2 places under the car and one under the hood. I replaced the respective lines with my 300psi line and no more problems.

The plate is mounted to the engine. The EJ22 has threaded holes so that you can bolt an EJ trans to it. I drilled these out so that I could bolt the engine to the plate. Also, you can see where i was originally going to cut the plate off on the top side, I decided to leave this intact until i figure out how I'm going to mount a pitch stopper. :-\ I ground the flywheel down and bought some longer strengthened bolts. I didn't realize that the extra flywheel I had gotten and drilled last year used a smaller clutch than I had, so I had to redrill the one I had on the engine before moving forward. You get the idea. The before shot. 45 min. into the swap.

Sorry these are so small, all photos are in an album on my member page in the 2.2 folder. I will be uploading a few videos to youtube later. I made a template of the trans about three years ago when i had to change a broken clutch fork. I transferred it to the 1/2" plate aluminum and started cutting, a little WD40 goes a long way in making it easier to cut. Drilling all the holes for the dowel pins and where I am going to be putting the heli coils. Holes drilled and tapping the holes for the heli coils to screw into. Setting the heli coils is super simple, sorry its blurry. The holes are all drilled and heli coils are in place, notice I installed 2 from the front and 2 from the back. The plate will be bolted into from the engine and from the trans.

It has taken me a while to get back to posting. I own a glass company and we decided to stop doing auto glass and focus more on residential and commercial work, which left me an empty bay at the shop. Since I am doing this swap at work it has taken longer than I would like, however I have a good friend that is a currently unemployed union electrician with time on his hands. He also knows a lot about cars in general and has been here most everyday helping me on it, which is why I haven't kept up with the posts. So, here we go.

LoL, Oh man, that's a good one, never heard of the leaf blower idea. Blow through turbo applications do work but you really have to do it just right or you will have problems. It is hard to get the air/fuel ratio correct, if you even can. They tend to lean out under full boost and high rpm's, which is why i decided to run a megasquirt setup on my Beetle. EFI with turbo is best for a daily driver, unless its a drag car only. You can dump a lot of fuel down a 4b carb with a turbo on a 2200cc vw engine in a quarter mile and not kill the engine, mostly, but it will not reliably drive to the supermarket and back.

Just a thought, if the crank and/or cam angle sensors aren't working correctly, it will not spark. Check for broken wires at the connectors. I had to replace both the cam and crank angle sensor connectors because of a broken wire right at the connector.

I have found the same thing, but am not sure why the system isn't sending a ground signal. Nice touch on the defrost button.

Cutting down the EJ, i have notes and photos to post.

Yep, Even with a freshly flushed EA radiator mounted to a 1.8 runs hot here in the socal summers. Which is why I am using the EJ radiator.

Yep, I am at the same point, can jump the fuel pump to ground and it works, but otherwise it wont. Help!, please? You know what, never-mind, I'll just run the pump ground to a toggle under the dash so that it will be another anti theft device and save my flipping headache, unless someone knows how to solve the issue.

I was quite excited last night when i took my ECM for my 90' 2.2 apart and discovered the on-board map sensor, and realized to turbo using this computer would only require adding a few wires.

I layed out my plate on cardboard, then transferred it to the 1/2" Aluminum. [attach]7427[/attach] Drilling for the bolt holes. [attach]7428[/attach] I decided to use heli coils for my setup. Heli coils in place. [attach]7429[/attach]

LOL, no just a google search. There are only a few thousand Porsche 356's still alive, and they are quite expensive. The last time i found an engine it was in rebuild-able condition and the guy wanted 25k.

I purchased the engine about three years ago for my wife's 63' rag top beetle. She said she wanted Herbie to be as close to the movie Love Bug as possible. Instead of the 2.2 Herbie received a Porsche 914 engine (Because there is no way I would spend the money for a Porsche 356 engine, which is what the movie car had, even if I had that kind of money). So what to do with this 2.2 hmmm. Jump forward 2 years... I cut a bunch of wires out of the harness, then threw the unloomed mess back in the box. I then decided to grind out the flywheel so that i could feel as though I had accomplished something, then lay it next to the engine out behind the shed under the plywood that was at least keeping the sun off the engine. Jump forward 1 year to about a month ago.... Okay, I blew a head gasket on the 1.8, so it seemed the perfect time to do this swap since i would have the engine out anyway. I mentioned to a friend what I was contemplating and he said, "Lets do it!" I removed the 1.8 one evening, then started working on the adapter plate the next day. (I will begin uploading video and photos tomorrow as I am out of time today)

Dude, you are full of new and interesting questions that I hadn't thought of yet. Keep it up.

There's a section that reads that you can eliminate both fuse boxes but gives no help in doing so.

The guy just gave me the seats, and provided me with some detailed wiring information to ease my 2.2 swap. Double score! :banana:

Nice, I'll see if he still has them. Thanks

I found a set that look like new, the guy pulled them to put in some aftermarket racing seats and only wants 20. bucks Thanks

Seriously......This site is meant for people who ask and answer questions.

Seriously.

Its good to know that i'm not the only Californian on here. I' am taking a few minutes away from my 2.2 swap at the moment.

But not to worry, I found the return fuel line and a mouthful of stale gas. Thus begins my 2.2 swap.

Thank you, The guy said they were 5.5 but they were actually 4.25. Nice wheels though, the search continues.