Heart Transplant

[HalfPint]

Can i please have all your experiance with this one.

 

I have a '96 2.0litre petrol galaxy with 108.000 miles on the clock and still going strong

just a bit sluggish up hills.

 

Anyway i want to put a diesal lump in there.

Can you please advise on what lump to get with gearbox as well.

can i get a six speed box in there

 

And what other bits and bobs will i need to finish the job.

 

And what would the power difference be. Will it make my eyeballs bleed

 

Please help me out

 

Happy new year

[mk2vr6]

easy option go buy a tdi if your that desperate for one? the work involved would be way to much depending on what engine you get? or just buy a nail and swap over the good bits from your to build it up

[Stevoo]

Agreed be cheaper to sell your gal and buy a diesel.

petrol engines are Ford, Diesel engines are VW.

[El Dingo]

Definitely easier and almost certainly cheaper to change the car.

I'll bet insurance would be loaded (if they would even insure you without an engineer's certificate) and the car would be nearly impossible to re-sell later (and worth a lot less). You might find it difficult if not impossible to change the registration details.

[HalfPint]

Thanks for all the replies i'm going to loook around for a complete diesal gal and then go from there.