Any advice for the newbie regarding splitty conversions?

ping

Like gear boxes and, well anything that may trip me up?

richbaker78 · Teacher of Padawans Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 1298

welcome

cant help directly myself but a few general pointers: read the conversion for dummies top right of the page. HAve a good look through others converts and posts of similar questions and if that doesnt do it then give us plenty of info about what you need to know...bus/bug/ year/ how far you want to go with conversion/ what engines you are considering/ budget etc etc
then im sure youll get plenty of help.

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ping · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject:

Cool, i am about to IRS the van with a AT box and bus boys style clamps. I really want plain old economy with better reliability than my 1200cc lawn mower nugget. I'm ok with the fabbing side of things cus i'm a fitter by trade. Wink

13 window deluxe · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject:

ping · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:52 am Post subject:

Yeh i would like to go down the 2 litre n/a scooby route. I would also like a very neat almost invisible install, i.e. no scooby dash or engine lid addaptations etc.

13 window deluxe · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject:

2.0 subaru N/A motor will have plenty of power and torque for a split as they dont weigh a great deal and the at box should give a good cruising speed

as regards cooling i would say dont have a rear/engine bay mounted radiator you will need fans running all the time at higher speeds eg motorway due to poor airflow put the rad under floor and duct it. i have a under floor rad on my split and the fans only switched on once all last year!
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1975 rhd twin slider tintop (TBA)
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1979 rhd twin slider tintop bay ahu 1.9tdi
1990 T25 1Z 1.9tdi
1993 suzuki samurai with 1Z 1.9tdi

ping · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject:

Thats what i wanted to do with the rads, did you use any perticular radiators or did you have them custom made? Also wanted to ask, whats the deal with the vss? Where does it go?

ElusiveStranger · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:11 pm Post subject:

The answers you seek are all on here.

Use the search button up there ^^^
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13 window deluxe · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:31 pm Post subject: