Caddy side project

[Tractor Dave]

Don't worry guys, I've not gone rogue.
I was offered this recently and I thought it would be an interesting side project.
It was our local milk ladies delivery vehicle for 20+ year's.
Anyway, the body is very sound, a little rust here and there but nothing major. It has a pedestrian slow 1.6 non turbo diesel. My plan is to fit the very popular pd130 engine from a mk4 golf.
If folks here are interested, i will update this thread with progress.

[Tractor Dave]

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[struikie]

Those ASZ engines were/ are very nice. 180bhp with a standard tune.
The 100bhp AXR engines are nice as well. These do 150bhp with a tune.

My dad had a Passat B5.5 with the AVB 100bhp chipped to 155bhp which ran perfectly
up to the 450.000km when he moved to a newer car.

JW

[Tractor Dave]

Yes. Probably the best engine VAG ever made, after the five cylinder turbo of course
I already picked up a mk4 golf with ASZ engine but it has the wrong 6 speed gearbox that isn't easy or cheap to fit in the caddy. On the lookout for 5 speed O2J or O2A box from a tdi. Golf has done 160k miles. Just run in

[david1980]

Yes, would like to see updates please.

[Ian Simmonds]

Yes, would like to see updates please.

Me too…

[John.]

Love the simplicity of these......but understand the engine swap also !

Keep it coming Dave.

[fish]

We need a build thread. You dont even have to ask

[johne]

but a diesel is still a diesel..... of course there's loads of choice and debate possible over engine choices and whilst a diesel links nicely to the Caddy's workhorse origins when we're talking about the best engines VAG ever made the VR6 is up there amongst the front runners so for me a BUB VR6 as fitted to Mk4 and Mk5 Golfs would be the way to go. With 4 wheel drive a possibility and a legendary exhaust note it's the closest you'd get to the S2 magic.

Whatever, look forward to the build thread.

[Tractor Dave]

Ok, there seems to be some interest so I will continue.
This is a slow motion project. It's in the barn, not the garage (where the lift is) as I need to do other cars in there whilst this is ongoing.
I don't like crawling under cars on axle stands so I decided to make a roll over jig. Can't be that difficult?
So I got some steel and loosely followed some ideas on the interweb.
My local steel supplier kindly cut everything to size for me. Then I got busy with the mig.










Total cost was £40
You may have noticed that these later got painted blue with some Ford Tractor paint I happen to have. Grin


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[Tractor Dave]

Everything got stripped from the body and I amassed a big pile to take for sandblasting and powder coating.


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[Tractor Dave]

This is the donor for the engine which I picked up locally cheaply. Amazing that it passed an mot in January.




I didn't waste any time getting the engine out.


The loom was a right pain to remove.



Also took the dbw throttle pedal which will go in the caddy.


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[Nuvo]

Hold on a sec Dave, I thought you just said this was a slow motion project? You'll have it finished before Christmas if keep this up.
It always great to see another generous helping of project goodness from you.

[Tractor Dave]

Well, i must confess i got the car a few months ago. If i can get it safely on the roll over jig and make a start cleaning the underside before Santa arrives i will be very happy

[sal_s2]

First dibs on this one please Dave when its up and running