as far as i aware the engine goes strait in! the engine in my car at the moment is a 1.4 carb'ed cvh will my 1.6 rs turbo engine loom plug strait into the car or is their a bit more to it?

 

The engine is no problem,straight fit.wireing on the other hand is not.The loom for a mk4 turbo is soooooo long its unbaleivable,it goes round the engine bay in a circle for sum reason.its not hard to do but the easiest way is to seperate the engine loom,shorten it and wire it in seperately job done.

 

my engine loom on the rs is fairly short from what i can see! so will the loom plug into somewhere on my original car loom or will i have to cut and solder/conect it?

 

Cut and solder,its not difficult earths,positive and switch lives.other than that a piece of piss.

 

I did something similar on my MK5 carb cvh. It's now running an OFAB turbo engine. The loom off a FRST was quite easy to adapt to my engine bay. Just needed to extend a few wires. I found it reasonably straight forward to mount the fuel injection and fuel pump relays near the battery.

Another pain in the ar$e you'll have to overcome is fuel. I changed my tank for one off a MK5 XR3i and raided the engine bay fuel piping from an EFI 90 spec MK4 XR3i, bought a new fuel filter and plumbed it in.

The place where the wiring links up to your existing car loom is behind the battery, just a simple multiplug. The only things you'll need to identify are oil pressure, rev. counter and ignition live etc.

Find full info on www.rsbible.co.uk

Good luck m8