244tiCanuck
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- Joined
- Sep 3, 2004
- Location
- Edmonton
Has anyone done a RWD swap on the newer 4 cylinder engines other than Cyan?
Reason I ask, is they're becoming more available and seem to be a good design with some potential and they're fairly light.
I was curious about this while prepping one for an engine replacement (2016 xc90 engine blew, the 16s do that, putting an '18 engine in) and I thought to myself that the bellhousing pattern looked familiar. Looks like a whiteblock. I fitted a 960 bellhousing to it, the dowels line up, starter hole lines up, crank sensor cutout lines up. Almost all of the bolt holes line up. Certainly enough that I wouldn't worry about the ones that don't.
This got me excited, so I grabbed a 5 cyl flex plate and tried it on. It fit the crank perfectly. Crank trigger pattern is the same, same diameter, same clearance to the sensor. Ring gear diameter and tooth count is the same, as is the depth from the block mating face. Crank flange depth is the same as a 5 or 6 cyl whiteblock.
By all account, I would have no doubt that any clutch, flywheel and transmission that fits a whiteblock will fit the VEA. I have a PMC motorsports adapter kit for a BMW ZF 320 to a whiteblock, I'm going to try fitting it to the core engine I remove when I have time, it doesn't clear the water crossover tube on the back of the engine and the crank isn't drilled out for a pilot bearing. Would need minor modification to the pilot in the PMC flywheel, it's removable.
I will also remove the sump from the core engine and check things out. The balance shafts live down there, but I'm not sure in a practical sense how much space they occupy. I don't think they could stay if building a RWD sump.
I've got pictures of the 960 bellhousing on it and the 5cyl flex plate. I'll get photos of the rest later.
I kind of want to put one in a gutted 242 now. There are decent places to put engine mounts on both sides of the block.
Reason I ask, is they're becoming more available and seem to be a good design with some potential and they're fairly light.
I was curious about this while prepping one for an engine replacement (2016 xc90 engine blew, the 16s do that, putting an '18 engine in) and I thought to myself that the bellhousing pattern looked familiar. Looks like a whiteblock. I fitted a 960 bellhousing to it, the dowels line up, starter hole lines up, crank sensor cutout lines up. Almost all of the bolt holes line up. Certainly enough that I wouldn't worry about the ones that don't.
This got me excited, so I grabbed a 5 cyl flex plate and tried it on. It fit the crank perfectly. Crank trigger pattern is the same, same diameter, same clearance to the sensor. Ring gear diameter and tooth count is the same, as is the depth from the block mating face. Crank flange depth is the same as a 5 or 6 cyl whiteblock.
By all account, I would have no doubt that any clutch, flywheel and transmission that fits a whiteblock will fit the VEA. I have a PMC motorsports adapter kit for a BMW ZF 320 to a whiteblock, I'm going to try fitting it to the core engine I remove when I have time, it doesn't clear the water crossover tube on the back of the engine and the crank isn't drilled out for a pilot bearing. Would need minor modification to the pilot in the PMC flywheel, it's removable.
I will also remove the sump from the core engine and check things out. The balance shafts live down there, but I'm not sure in a practical sense how much space they occupy. I don't think they could stay if building a RWD sump.
I've got pictures of the 960 bellhousing on it and the 5cyl flex plate. I'll get photos of the rest later.
I kind of want to put one in a gutted 242 now. There are decent places to put engine mounts on both sides of the block.