[T2] [BP] diesel conversion woes ...

[Jim Arnott]

What Greg said.  Tow/trailer it to your local muffler shop.  Pay the man to fab what you need.  Mine is a 2.0 ABA into a Vanagon and the shop charged about $500 including the cat and muffler.  Just make sure that the fabricator recognizes that the entire exhaust system fastens ONLY to the engine. Mine’s run for close to 30k miles with no failure.

Jim


> On Aug 18, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Greg Potts <greg at pottsfamily.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Is that a TDI 1.9. or naturally aspirated?
> 
> The setup you linked to looks to be designed for a 2L Gas engine with a dual-downpipe manifold. I think it's a lot bigger than what is needed for a diesel with lower displacement and running much lower rpms.
> 
> When I put an inline 4 gas engine in Colleen's 88 Vanagon I had a custom exhaust fabricated from the header back to the tailpipe, I paid a local muffler shop to do the work and they completed the project in a day for $600. It shouldn't be hard to find a custom exhaust shop in a university town.
> 
> Happy Trails,
> 
> Greg Potts
> Toronto, Ontario Canada
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