Heart transplant: 2.1 WBX to FAS Gen V 2.0T

[Vanagon Nut]

[ledogboy]

[DuncanS]

I highly recommend using marine grade wire when replacing the old stuff. I have stripped back old wire both in Vanagons and boats looking for shiny copper only to find corroded brown the whole way. Marine wire has each and every one of the strands individually tinned prior to gathering into the final insulated bundle. This stuff will cost a tiny bit more, but will never give any trouble down the road.

[DuncanS]

Try this link, but there are many choices.

http://www.bestboatwire.com/marine-wire

[jimf909]

Great thread. Nice choice in the kit. I eyed it for quite some time.

Congrats on the child on the way! Your super-van may support years of adventure for the kids to learn from. Fun.

Enjoy the heck outta all of it!
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- Jim

[Red Beard]

Day 3: Wiring, brackets, and misc

The kit comes with an additional harness from the new ECU under the rear seat to the dash which includes the OBDII port, to be mounted behind the glove box. It requires that you put a 1.5" hole in the transverse frame rail at the rear of the gas tank, and another in the firewall behind the front headlight.

The harness runs from under the rear seat on the drivers side, crosses over to the inside of the passenger frame rail, then over the gas tank to the front right corner of the van. Fishing the harness required dropping the gas tank a few inches.....again. Getting good at that. Then it runs through the hole you made in the front firewall to the area behind the glove box, where the solenoid for the cruise control and the obdII connector can be mounted.

From there, fish the harness through the dash to the instrument cluster area, where the cruise control module will be mounted. A few other connections are made with supplied connectors.

Following the install of the dash harness, I installed the intercooler and the bracket for the coolant bottle and power steering reservoir in the engine bay. Fairly straight forward, the manual is pretty clear about how to locate these:

Also replaced all the fuel lines with new line, installed the new fuel pump included with the kit, and new filter.

I still have the ECU to engine bay harness but I'll wait until the ECU, the engine, and everything else show up, hopefully in about a week.


Time today: 4hrs
Total time: 16hrs
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1990 Vanagon, FAS Gen V 2.0 NA, AT w/ Peloquin diff, NAHT conversion

[Red Beard]

Posting from work, wife sent me these pics just now....

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1990 Vanagon, FAS Gen V 2.0 NA, AT w/ Peloquin diff, NAHT conversion

[DuncanS]

It's currently 3:30 your time. We expect photos and excited posting in no less than 3 hours from now.

[Aryana]

That’s gonna be a fun box to open!!!

[mikemtnbike]

I'm so glad to see your treasure is guarded by a lion 🦁. Have fun! Looking forward to viewing your progress FAS has got it going on IMO.
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1991 Vanagon GL 2.1 AT Westfauxlia. "Frankie" Totaled https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=764510&highlight=carnage
1995 Eurovan Camper "Marzivan"
2020 GTI SE manual

[khughes]

I'm sure you're going to be super happy with the GenVT. I've been driving the NA drive by wire version for a couple of years now in an '86 Westy, and my turbo kit just arrived today I got caught in the same wastegate backorder issue that you did. The NA DBW kit is really all the HP anyone *needs*, but boys 'n toys you know...couldn't resist.

Keith Hughes
'86 Westy GenV (Marvin)

[regis101]

I live in Cali-handcuff-smog-a-fornia. sigh

Ok. Humor me for a minute. Drifting off topic . Sorry

So. A guy lives in Wa state with a bone stock Vanagon. Wakes up one day and wants to do a FAS . Drops the coin. All goes well with the swap. What goes down next time a smog cert is due? Is there a smog? What if he sells ?

Humble apologies . I’m wearing thick ass wine goggles at the moment and just don’t understand how you guys can have so much fun .

I’m kicking my weekender to the curb because I don’t see the end justifying the means . We have our share of legal transplants but I’m still in handcuffs

Moderator can totally delete my inquiry. It’s all good
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Peace, Regis

[Zeitgeist 13]

I live in WA, and there are no smog inspections in my end of the Puget Sound. In the areas that do smog, I gather they're mostly interested in the tailpipe emissions and not what you're using to produce them, here.
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Casey--

'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik?

[MsTaboo]

Yep, I really don't understand California. You can stuff a 600 hp engine in an older car but you can't put a cleaner engine in a newer car?

It should only be about what comes out the tailpipe.

(sorry about the thread-jack)
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'90 Syncro Westy 3 knob w/Zetec

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[Kirsche Wasserboxer]

How about an update on how you're liking the conversion? I'm starting to look at this engine as an option for our Westy, and would love to hear your impressions so far.
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1990 Westfalia Vanagon
2.1 Wasserboxer

[khughes]

[khughes]

[SyncroChrick]

wait, so this is another one of these threads with no ending? So frustrating.

[khughes]

[heynanc]

Okay! It’s mid 2019!

WHAT HAPPENED?
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Nancy
2011 Subaru Outback daily driver
1975 “art bus” transporter “Cherry Garcia”
1984 Westfailia Vanagon EJ22 “ Guinness”
2006 Dodge Sprinter (long/tall)
2006 Winnebago View (in case the buses aren’t cooperating)