VW WaterCooled 1.8,2.0 petrol n' 1.9 TDI Diesel feroza/Rocky

Post by **lexferoza** » Sat May 16, 2009 3:41 am

I'd like to share with you guys what we're doing in brazil,easy and cheap way to solve the daihatsu Feroza and rocky weak and torkless engine problem...

Everyone know's about how strong, reliable, cheap, easy to tune, easy to find parts and have great tork at any RPM, also good on gas mileage, and the best part is the weight, its olny 100KG. Is the VW water cooled engines (congratulations for the Germany).

There's just a few adaptations to do, check a little about clicking here
(this pics are petrol VW 1.8MI adaptation, but all of the VW Watercooled petrol or diesel engines uses the same adaptor plate to put in a feroza or rocky)

http://www.4x4brasil.com.br/forum/showt ... hp?t=40003
http://www.4x4brasil.com.br/forum/showt ... 003&page=2
http://www.4x4brasil.com.br/forum/showt ... 003&page=3

Give's you aprox. 37,8 miles per galon of gasoline, onroad easy to keep 100km/h 120km/h on fifth gear even on hills, you rarely reduce to fourth gear even passing cars.
You fell the great tork all the times.
All of the gasoline/alcool 1.8 or 2.0 VW Watercooled engines are awsome to put in a feroza/rocky, but if you have extra $$$$$$$,choose for the brasilian dream engine:
electronic VW 1.9 Turbodiesel, because they fit on adaptor plate exacly the same as gasoline ones,plus you have 82,8 miles per galon of diesel,and very high tork. weights almost the same as gasoline ones.

Very soon we'll have this adaptor plate and all other parts to fit these engines in a feroza to sell, like a KIT.

Post by **Newtothefourbeworld** » Sat May 16, 2009 9:46 am

that would be awesome thats all i can say!

however how easy are these motors to source here in australia??

Post by **lexferoza** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:02 am

Hey Newtothefourbeworld,
you can search for 1.8 or 2.0 petrol or 1.9 TDI diesel Golf, Scirocco, Jetta, Rabit, Wanagon, Passat and others from watercooled VW line.
Not sure if they have same name in Australian market.

Post by **hannivers** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:45 am

Your VW engine project is great, please provide us some updated info on how the Feroza is performing, many of us would like to see some more pictures also, 10 stars to our Brazil guys**********

Post by **lexferoza** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:08 pm

Performance are great,
will post more pics and videos, as we'll start another feroza petrol 1.6 swap to VW Golf 2.0 bi-fuel (ethanol/petrol) next week.
VW engines are strong, robut, cheap, easy to find parts, never give up.
They work fine also on suzukis samurai,vitara, jeep willys, sportage and other small 4x4's.
Feroza+Petrol VW 2.0 engine are awsome combination for indoor racing, i'll send some pics and vids soon.

Post by **hannivers** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:22 am

We look forward to your pictures, video & whatever, I am personally very keen to learn more about what you guys are doing, best regards from Ran

Post by **roza31** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:24 pm

These guys sell a kit for a VW powered Zook and share a lot of interesting info, pitfalls, problems and successes -

http://www.rocky-road.com/diesel.html

This is an installation guide for a VW 1.9 TD engine into a IIA Rover with more points of interest -

http://www.66rover.com/VW%20TD/VW%20TD.html

The wikipedia listing of the range and specs of VW watercooled engines - Including the diesel 1.9 R4 TDI PD 43-118kW, the petrol 1.8 R4 16v TSI/TFSI 88-125kW and the impressive 1.8 R4 20vT 110-221kW

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vo ... ol_engines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vo ... el_engines

Both versions of the petrol turbo 1.8 have been used in the Audi TT with a lot of tuning options available.

However, just how many kw can you comfortably put thru' the drive of a feroza before you start snapping things?

Post by **flyinwall** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 7:08 pm

lexferoza wrote:Performance are great,
will post more pics and videos, as we'll start another feroza petrol 1.6 swap to VW Golf 2.0 bi-fuel (ethanol/petrol) next week.
VW engines are strong, robut, cheap, easy to find parts, never give up.
They work fine also on suzukis samurai,vitara, jeep willys, sportage and other small 4x4's.
Feroza+Petrol VW 2.0 engine are awsome combination for indoor racing, i'll send some pics and vids soon.

for the sportage you would be better off using the mazda rf or r2 diesel (if you want the diesel) as it is a bolt in fitment as it is the same block as the fe3 motor that is already in there (mazda used the same block for both the petrol and diesel, FE series petrol and the RF and R2 series diesels)

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